Table of Contents
Foreword ix
Introduction xiii
In the Beginning 3
Bubba's Girl 5
Flatheads Forever? 8
Beat the Clock 9
Coupe de Gras 10
A Chevy from the Levy 12
Eastern Upstart 13
And If They Didn't 15
The First "Big" Win 16
The Challenges of Travel 18
Long Pulls 20
Ju$tice for All 21
But Was It Worth It? 23
In the End, It Was 23
Cook-ed His Own Goose 27
166.97 28
Hero Worship 28
Another Cook & Garlits Adventure 29
Shades of Chester, South Carolina 32
Art Malone's Timely Visit 36
December 1959 38
A Little Help from His Friends 39
Christmas Bonus 41
Bad Run of Luck? 42
Big Daddy Burns Again 43
Swingle Pinch Hits 45
Racing as a Business? 46
Super Stock Dodge 49
"Collecting" the Cash 52
Pass the Nitro 53
Chrysler Comes A-Callin' 56
Hemi Style 59
A Legend Helps a Legend-to-Be 60
Two "Kings" Are Bunkmates in Vietnam 62
Tricks of the Trade 63
The Wheels of Progress 67
Fire Burnouts 68
The Best at the Burn 71
The Fire's Out 72
Garlits vs. Carbone … In Every Round! 74
"The Great Burndown" Revisited 75
Deadly Competition 77
"Impressing" King Hogan 79
"Love at First Sight" 80
Return to the Strip 81
Beating the King 82
Big Daddy vs. the NHRA 85
Snapshot 87
Clubbed 87
Big Daddy vs. the NHRA II 88
A Short Truce 96
The Wing Is the Thing 98
Pit Politics 98
Not My Line 100
Across the Pond 101
Lights Out 103
Bad Timing 104
PRA 105
Mending the Fences 110
Rubber War 110
Publicity Stunt 112
Shirley 117
Then There Was the Time at Martin, Michigan 118
More Fun with Muldowney 121
Garlits and Gwynn 123
The Computer 125
When Ingenuity and Luck Shake Hands 127
Lions, 1970 128
More from the Hospital 132
Indy, 1984 133
Not the End of the Road 136
Turned on Its Head 137
Home Away from Home 139
Pomona, Here We Come 140
Lost Treasure 141
The Race to End All Races 142
Fun and Games with the Snake I 145
Fun and Games with the Snake II 146
The Blowover 149
Indy, 1967 152
Four Seconds at Over 300 157
Swamp Rat XXXIV 160
Don Cook: Ironman 161
You Want to See Tough? 162
Big Daddy Was Tough, Too 163
Autofest 2000 165
Epilogue 169
