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By Mary Beth Martin
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
“Big Daddy” Don Garlits, nationally known drag-car racer, drove into Sperryville in his rebuilt 1936 Ford hot rod on Sept. 23. His wife, Patricia, accompanied him on this trip to visit their daughter, Donna Perry, recently hired by Faith Mountain Co. as a control buyer.
The car was a replica of the hot rod that he owned when he and his wife married in 1953. Garlits raced and turned over his original ‘36 Ford, but he assembled a second from parts found in different states.
In the 1950s it was stateof-the-art in drag racing, he
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