Connie Kalitta — A Living Legacy

The nearly 75 years of drag-racing folklore includes countless tales laced with bluster, bravado and bawdiness. And because they’ve been repeated through the years, it’s difficult to say if half of it — maybe any of it — is true.

But for sure, Connie “The Bounty Hunter” Kalitta, who raced from the 1950s to the ’90s and now at age 86 presides over his multi-car NHRA team, is at the center of much of it.