Tom "Mongoose" McEwen's 72 "Hot Wheels" Dragster...Drag Racing Art by David Carl Peters

  " Blazin Hot Wheels"  Limited-Edition Print of 350 (13x19) signed and numbered by the Artist. When "Big Daddy" Garlets blew his car in half at Lions in 1970 nearly severing his right foot, his long stay in the Hospital was made a little easier with daily visits from old friend Tom McEwen. The "Goose" would stop by daily to visit "Big" bringing him Sci-Fi Magazines to read, and even staying to watch "Star Trek" reruns on TV.  "Big" was already crafting his return to Drag Racing by envisioning a working Rear-Engined Dragster, making sure that future explosions would be all behind him... Connie Swingle who actually built the car would say "It's not a Rear-Engine car, the engine is where it always was, we just located the driver in front of it."    So everyone by now knows the story of "Big Daddy's" trial and tribulations trying to make the new set-up work properly. What is a less known fact is, that after "Big" perfected the new R.E.D. chassis the next one he built was sold to the "Goos