The Green Monster was the name of several vehicles built by Art Arfons and his half-brother Walt Arfons. These ranged from dragsters to a turbojet-powered car that briefly held the land speed record three times during 1964 and 1965.

Jan 1, 2023 · One of Art's newest playthings is this jet-powered dragster (above) that's capable of 6-second e.t. 's and 250 mph. Straight tube axle is used on Art's new LSR car (below); it runs through air ...

Green Monster Number 11, Art Arfons' favorite, hit 191 miles per hour to beat Don Garlits. The Arfons brothers then split up, and each became interested in land speed record racing.

Arthur Eugene Arfons (February 3, 1926 – December 3, 2007) was the world land speed record holder three times from 1964 to 1965 with his Green Monster series of jet-powered cars, after a series of Green Monster piston-engine and jet-engined dragsters.

Feb 16, 2018 · In October 1963, Art Arfons’ land-speed Green Monster first hit the salt at Bonneville, and it almost immediately clocked off a new world land-speed record at 434.02 mph, followed by the first of multiple high-speed tire blowouts that plagued the car.

Art Arfons (born Feb. 3, 1926, Akron, Ohio, U.S.—died Dec. 3, 2007, Akron) was an American automotive racer, three-time holder of the world’s land-speed record for wheeled vehicles. Arfons worked in his father’s feed-mill business in Akron, Ohio, before and after service in the U.S. Navy (1943–46), which trained him in diesel mechanics.

Aug 4, 2020 · The Green Monster designed by brothers Art and Walt Arfons originated as a drag racer

As water speed's newest and most unconventional challenger, Green Monster (which takes its name from Arfons' great jet car, demolished at Bonneville in a near 600 mph crackup last November) has already raised some eyebrows and some questions. Paramount among them: it is a car or boat, or both?

Feb 6, 2019 · Arfons Green Monster in Jay Leno's Garage (CNBC), Non-fiction TV, 2015-2024 Ep. 4.02 Class: Cars, Racecar — Model origin:

Sep 19, 2009 · Based on the Green Monster that the legendary, jet-engine-pioneering Art Arfons built and raced in the '60s, this eBay Motors offering was built from the pieces of that three-time record holder...