That was the last straw for Garlits, who had been sitting behind the oil- and fire-spewing supercharged, nitro-burning engines for more than 10 years. Art Chrisman 28. John Force 1. The event had been created in 1959 specifically to lure Garlits to California to race. Garlits achieved the first of his three greatest accomplishments in the sport in 1964. NHRA's 50 GREATEST DRIVERS 50. Mention drag racing to the man on the street and if he knows only one name, it surely is "Big Daddy" Don Garlits. He had also won four AHRA national events and the first of five U.S. Fuel & Gas Championships in seven career final rounds. Danny Ongais, injured when his Interscope racer hit the third-turn wall at the Indianapolis 500, was flown today to Laguna Beach, Calif., where he will be treated by his private physician. Pat Austin 12. "I just loved it," Garlits said of why he drag raced. Scores of wins? "I had their picture nailed up on the wall of my shop. 2 driver in history. He lost in the Top Gas final to Jack Chrisman. (In the 1950s, when he broke speed barriers and whipped the Southern Californians with his crude Swamp Rat I, they called him "Tampa Dan," "Don Garbage," and "Swamp Rat." Nice.' By the end of the decade, he had won 16 of 20 NHRA national event final rounds, including two more U.S. Nationals, all four of his IHRA championships (26 national event wins), and six of his 10 AHRA titles. Ronnie Sox 14. Richard Tharp 48. Mickey Thompson 10. By 1986, Garlits had also become a three-time NHRA national champion, along the way repeating his 1984 win at the U.S. Nationals in 1985 and 1986 to become the event's only three-straight winner. But Danny’s going to do a fine job and carry on what Scott, I think, would want done, and that’s to see the car raced on race day here at the greatest race in the world.″ Ongais, who turns 54 on Tuesday and will be the oldest driver in the field, must start the race at the rear of the field because he is a substitute. Gallery: 25 Photos from the Heyday of Drag Racing. 2 at 11:30 a.m. Casual attire; flowers and lei are welcomed He is survived by wife, Patricia P. Ongais of Keaau; daughters, Deneen (Nathan) Ongais Louie of Hilo, Renee (Clarence) Ongais-Salvador of Mt. Tom McEwen 15. Several weeks later, he became the first to win an NHRA national event with a rear-engine dragster when he set the Top Fuel class on a new course by winning the Winternationals. Elmer Trett 49. The 1970s opened badly for Garlits when a transmission explosion -- in the fatefully tagged Swamp Rat XIII -- in the final round of an AHRA national event in Long Beach, Calif., cut his car in half and took a portion of his right foot with it. He returned in 1992 with Swamp Rat 32, equipped with a monostrut rear wing, in an effort to become the first to exceed 300 mph, but he didn't debut the car until the Southern Nationals, one month after Kenny Bernstein ran the first 300-mph speed at the Gatornationals. On pg. Bill Jenkins 7. Dave Schultz 43. Connie Kalitta 20. David Rampy 41. Bob Glidden 3. Now retired, Dave still shoots races that catch his fancy and has begun scanning his extensive cache of slides and negatives from the 1970s. Don Nicholson 17. Garlits' self-confidence was flagging when he arrived and realized that he was more than two seconds behind the competition. With another gas-powered dragster, he won the first NHRA Winter Nationals in Daytona, Fla., in 1960. Ed McCulloch 18. Check. at 186 mph. 1 driver at the Automobile Club of Southern California NHRA Finals at Pomona Raceway on Nov. 11. Both attempts at building a better drag racing mousetrap proved unworthy, but they were evidence of Garlits' intelligence and determination. Contributions to the growth of NHRA? ex. It and several other of the best fuel dragsters in the country were going to be racing in Cordova, Ill., that summer at the Automobile Timing Association of America event. Today he is one of the the "go to" guys for chassis setup and fabrication on door cars. By summer 1984 and with the approach of the U.S. Nationals, Garlits had been mostly absent from the NHRA tour for four years and hadn't built a conventional car during that time. Emory Cook, driver of the Cook & Bedwell car, showed Garlits how to modify his carburetors to run 95-percent nitromethane, far more than the 25 percent Garlits had been using. He followed with another win at the World Finals in Pomona, and Garlits was stoked for a return to full-time NHRA competition. 1: DON GARLITS, Longevity doesn't guarantee success, but success over a long period of time can elevate a person to the top of his or her profession. Garlits advanced to his first of 43 career NHRA national event final rounds in Indianapolis in 1962. He came from Florida -- the wrong side of the drag racing tracks in the 1950s -- and he wasn't rich, nor did he have a college education. The NHRA has developed into the world's largest motorsports sanctioning body, with more than 80,000 members nationwide, and more than 140 member tracks. Three years later, with a dragster he built in 72 hours after failing to qualify at the Winternationals and Springnationals, he became the first two-time winner of the most prestigious drag race in the world and the next year the first to win two straight U.S. Nationals titles. View, Rosanne Ongais of Oceanside, California and Daisy (Melvin) Ongais-Kilaulani of Keaau; sons, Carl Moe, Jr. of Hilo, Richard (Julie) Moe of Bethel Island, California, David (Vanessa) Moe of Keaau, James Moe of Las Vegas, Nevada and Michael (Carrie) Moe of Brentwood, California; brothers, Jerome (Jean) Ongies of Oahu, Claudino (Bernadette) Ongais of Washington and Steven (Elena) Ongais of Hilo; sisters, Constance Wheeler of Arkansas and Carmen Dusza of Oahu; brother in-law, Alfred (Maile) Tavares of Hilo; sister in-law, Sharon Tavares of Keaau; 34 grandchildren and 24 great-grandchildren; numerous nieces, nephews a.

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