Dragster breaks in half - photo and video

Don Garlits' Swamp Rat XIII breaks in half after a transmission explosion at the Lions Drag Strip on March 8, 1970. Garlits survived but lost all of his toes on his right foot.

https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/h...t_dragster.jpg


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1a8ZQxq8EE


The Swamp Rat XIII restored:

http://garlits.com/portfolio-items/swamp-rat-13/

Previously:

https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...4976#post80948
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...6845#post84468
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...505#post132063
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...819#post119134

That is the accident that lead him to build the first rear-engined top fuel dragster; which rapidly became the standard. (after he started winning everything in sight with one)

Don has always been an innovator, still is, not content to stand by and watch, always has to have his hands deep into it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xycfysAM7IY