Garlits Museum of Drag Racing, TON of pics

[Flexicoker]

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My Dad and I stoppped by the Garlits Museum on our way to pick up my T-bird in Florida (thanks for the recomendation Greezy) and it was awesome!! I took a ton of pics and tried to not use flash as it washed everything out, so some are blurry, some are weird, and the first 3 got resized badly, but they are all here.

Enjoy

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[NortonG]

WOW!!! Thank's for the pic's.
Dial up user's beware. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[Stevie G]

Damn! You practically drove by the shop.
Coulda fed ya' or at least bought you a beer.

Gartlits is the TITS.
I have an annual membership for "Research" purposes.

[alteredpilot]

thanks a ton holmes! you just saved me a trip to florida!
great work!

['Flyin' Dutchman']

Cool pics man!!

I've been there twice now... Great museum! The engine room kicks ass!!!

More pics on my website.

[Mike]

Holy sheep shit! Man, that's a lot of cool old stuff. Aye Chinga!

[scrapmetalart]

THANK YOU!!!

[Deyomatic]

"Jesus H. Tapdancin' Christ" that's a ton of pics.

I loved the engine room there- felt like a big swap meet, I just wanted to touch everything, and the room with the gasser stuff.

My only complaint was that Mr. Garlits sells those fake injection setups and blowers to cover your carburetors. That and the fact that we noticed that the price on one of the books (High Octane) in the gift shop was marked up considerably more than the copy we had out in the car. Kind of odd.

[Gotgas]

Man, what an incredible bunch of pictures. Thanks for sharing.

For those of you that didn't get enough front engine dragsters from that post, here's a snazzy shot of my dog next to the Greer, Black, Prudhomme dragster.

[Deyomatic]

I thought that WAS Prudhomme! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[Flat Ernie]

I haven't been through there since '85 or '86 - on my way back from the Gator Nationals one of the (many) years it got rained out. Very cool - always recommend it to anyone driving through the state.

I used to make the trip the length of FL several times a year & always wanted to stop in again & see what's been updated - now I can wait a while! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif Great pics - Thanks!

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[BoomBoom]

Damn Flexi! Great Pics! I gotta go someday. Looks like its better than the NHRA museum in Cali.

[Church]

Awesome! I always thought I probably should go. Now I know I must go. Even though I have now pretty much seen everything. Thanks a bunch.

[Flexicoker]

Thanks for all the kind word guys, The musuem was a blast and I recomend it to anyone. I thought it was cool that Garlits is and Eagle scout, cause I am too, thats why theres a bunch of pics of the scout stuff.

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Looks like its better than the NHRA museum in Cali.

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I've been there too a year ago, should I post my pics? http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif The engine room made Garlits place cooler that the NHRA museum in my opinion, but they are both friggin awesome.

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Damn! You practically drove by the shop.
Coulda fed ya' or at least bought you a beer.

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I might just take you up on that when I take the bird on the Florida reunion tour after it looks a little more like this:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v237/Flexicoker/62_Bird2_copy.jpg

[Stevie G]

Certainly.
Just let me know when.

[Morrisman]

Goddamn, took me an hour and a half to download all them pics, over sattelite connection to my ship in Trinidad, but it was worth it.

I gotta go to that museum one of these days. Maybe on the way back through to England this next leave!!!!!!! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[Flatdog]

Nice dog.

[imfatdad]

Month ago, when I went to the hillclimb in New Hampshire, the Swamp Rat 3 was there on disply. The driver of the show truck/trailer told me that Don saves EVERYTHING, told him to bring back the old brake shoes once after the driver changed them off the truck while on the road once... Can't remember the guys name, but he told me that he had just recently picked up Shirley Muldowney's last car in Texas a couple of months ago, it should be in the museum soon he said, after they make some room...

Thanks for the pics, been a number of years since I visited the museum, it sure has grown....

[JamesG]

Extremely bad ass post!, Thanks bro!

[fab32]

You are right about Don not throwing anything away. Somehow he knew early on that everything that had anything to do with his career would be worth something some day. Now you can purchase some of his artifacts as he sometimes has them for sale at the museum store. The last time I was there he had one of the slicks from the winning run at the Winternationals for sale, I think the price was something like $250. There are usually blown pistons and rods there as well, all marked as to what the history behind the part is.
It's been a few years since my last visit and I can see there has been more expansion since. The first time I was there he had just opened and it was all in one building.

Frank

[fab32]

Also, did you notice the sign on the John Wiebe car? It states the chassis was built by Roy Fjasted. Roy is the guy who started the Deuce Factory and was the first to make stamped repo '32 frame rails.

Frank

[MBTex]

That is one bad ass museum!

[bufordtjustice]

Thank you ever so much for those extremely well done pics! I have always wanted to see that museum and will get down there some day but those pics are giving me the itch more than ever! What awesome stuff.....gotta love the V-12 roadster and the Ardun motor....hell...you gotta love practically all of it! Thanks again...I appreciate it.

Greg

[IntrstlarOvrdrve]

Wow, sweet..I'm overdue for another visit there, I LOVE the place, and last time I went I was 12...its been 4 long years!

[Flexicoker]

damn, exceeded my bandwidth, I'll bump it up once the pics work again

until then you can see the pics here (http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/v237/Flexicoker/Garlits%20Museum/)

[26Tudor]

I remeber calling up there to get directions, and Garlits' mom answered the phone and said" just drive up the Interstate towards Ocala until you see the Top Fuel Dragster on the pole" and damned if she wasn't right....

[John Copeland]

I was there in the spring and took and hour long video, without question, anyone that has grown up around the sport of drag racing, could not refuse a visit to Don's museum. One of my best friends runs a shop up in Fort Walton, Beach, he worked for Garlits for a few years and got some experience in the world of Top Fuel. TC, Don's crew chief for the past 15 years, still works part time in the museum, I visited with the gang last year at Indy, where they couldn't qualify the car. Garlits was a pack rat, but a lot of that stuff was disgarded over the years, and he had to search and buy some of it back from the current owners. Obviously, many of the items have been donated. Not to slam the great Mr. Garlits, but when your raised around money, you have the opportunity to collect and save a lot of stuff that the less fortunate could have! Every year he has a flea market at the musuem and many items are sold that come off cars that are in the resoration process. My friend was working there one year and ran across a McGirk 6 X 2 intake for a SBC. He ask Don where he acquired it, as he primarily worked on flat heads and hemis, he ask my friend if he wanted the intake? I now have it sitting on my workbench along side a 3 X 2 Offy intake that they gave me as well! Last year he made one last attempt to sell the racing world on the mono-wing concept. His contention is that the one wing allowed for more down force on the rear tires which could also be configured closer together. Most people don't know that the main reason that the idea never caught on, as most of his ideas did, is that with the wing support in the middle of the car, you have to slide the engine forward to work on the clutch pack. With the now, 75 minute turn-a-round, it was not practical. I think that Garlits and NHRA fight over finds that both parties want for their displays.........nothing of value here, just some of my bit and pieces!

John C.

[noboD]

Thanks for the memories Flexie. I was there a few years ago. He and Smokey are my all time heros. The dyno you show was the first dyno built for automotive use, by Smokey of course.. Was his Dart Funny car still on display? When I was there it was in unrestored condition, Kind of cool. Don't think Big ever threw anything away, his whole life is there somewhere, labled in a display case.

[Greezy]

Eric thanks for posting the pics Im on dial up so it'll take about a year to download. Ive been by the museum at least 10 times but have never been able to stop. Im glad you had the opportunity. Fatdad the man youre talking about is Bob Kraft, I met him about 2 yrs ago in Indiana at a truckstop. He let me go inside the trailer and checkout SRIII and take pics, and I also walked away with an autographed T-shirt(it was presigned).

[296 V8]

am i the only one that cant see them? http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif Grag

[Flexicoker]

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am i the only one that cant see them? http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif Grag

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nope, I exceeded my bandwidth for the month on photobucket by posting all these. I dont know how people saw them today, i can't. they should be good as soon as August starts, I was gonna bump it back up then.

Until then you can see them here (http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/v237/Flexicoker/Garlits%20Museum/)

[296 V8]

That place is f...in wild. I gotta go. Thanks Greg

[Flexicoker]

Pics work again

[Slag Kustom]

great pics i have to go there some day

[REVEREND JAKE]

WOW.......Uh.......WOW!!!!!!!!!

I drove by there coming and going from Tampa. I'll have to stop when I go to Tampa next year.

Rev. Jake TooCool

[Dirty2]

I have been there 2 or 3 times it just gets better every time thanks for the shots !!!