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This is the reason Garlits, also known as Big Daddy, showed up recently at the National Hot Rod Association Gatornationals in Gainesville, Fla., in a new $100,000 dragster with no front tires at all. What he had instead, under an aerodynamic wraparound front end of his own design, was a couple of machine belts barely thick enough to keep the thing from running on its wheel rims...
With both teams skating four a side, Elice-idol Paul Castraberti notched the game-winner at 13:21 of the third. The sophomore rink dragster used his speed to create a breakaway for himself at the Harvard blue line, then beat Harvard goalie Giff Duffy with a wrist-shot from the right circle...
With the Crimson traliing 13-6 at the half (Harvard had scored in Polillio's one-yard run in the middle of the middle of the second quarter), the 5-ft., 9-in. gridiron dragster from Stoughton, Mass. proceeded to run the opening kickoff of the second half 81 yards to set up Matt Granger's touchdown three plays later, the play which tied the game...
...usher, a young kid with straw-colored hair sticking out from under an oversize cap, bends to peer inside a dragster, then remembers that he is an official usher and quickly straightens up. "We gotta keep our eye out for ruffians," he says. "Haven't seen...
...m.p.h. mini-dragster called "the Hud." It looks deceptively like a 1973 Camaro. But, lightened by a fiber-glass body and fueled by explosive nitromethane, the car can streak down a quarter-mile from a standing start in 6½ seconds. To achieve that flash of glory, two Chicago pipefitters labored five hours a night, putting together the right combination of engine, transmission and body. "Your car not only has to run fast, it has to look good," says the Hud's wrench (chief mechanic), Tom Jordan, 33. "If your $1,500 paint gets chipped, that...