• Cherokee descent, and died in 1983 at age 84. Arfons had two half brothers by his mother — Walt Arfons, ten years older, who was to become his partner...
    10 KB (1,111 words) - 20:22, 26 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Green Monster (automobile)
    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...
    7 KB (883 words) - 18:12, 1 July 2024
  • younger half-brother Art and an eight and a half years younger half-sister "Lou", both from his mother's marriage to Tom Arfons. Arfons' family operated a...
    5 KB (587 words) - 22:46, 14 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Craig Breedlove
    Breedlove faced competition from Walt Arfons' Wingfoot Express (piloted by Tom Green), as well as from brother Art Arfons in his four-wheel, FIA-legal Green...
    21 KB (2,042 words) - 22:01, 1 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Land speed record
    37 mph) in Walt Arfons's jet dragster Avenger. The rival tire company Firestone and Art Arfons hit back against Goodyear and Walt Arfons when Betty Skelton...
    39 KB (2,253 words) - 10:40, 10 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Thrust2
    that of the mid-1960s-era J79 turbojet-powered land speed record cars of Art Arfons, collectively known as the "Green Monster" cars. The “Land Speed Record”...
    13 KB (1,472 words) - 16:33, 17 September 2024
  • (automobile), series of dragsters and land speed record cars built by Art Arfons between 1952 and 1991. Green Monster (EP), 2008 release by Suicide Silence...
    963 bytes (152 words) - 23:52, 15 October 2022
  • Thumbnail for Springfield Township, Summit County, Ohio
    built upon its site. Art Arfons, land speed record holder Walt Arfons, land speed record holder and half brother of Art Arfons Ernest Angley, Christian...
    9 KB (564 words) - 12:19, 8 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Spirit of America (automobile)
    an F-4 Phantom II, the same type as that used by Arfons' Green Monster. Another tit-for-tat with Arfons ended with Breedlove setting the record at 600.601 mph...
    7 KB (961 words) - 15:42, 6 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Wingfoot Express
    racer Arfons was to drive the car for the record attempt, but a month before the scheduled run, during initial testing on a dragstrip with Arfons outside...
    10 KB (1,564 words) - 09:22, 6 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Aero-engined car
    world land speed record. In 1951, hot rod and drag racing enthusiast Art Arfons began building a series of aero-engined racing cars each known as the...
    54 KB (6,403 words) - 16:33, 16 September 2024
  • known as "mud racing") remained marquee events. Popular pullers included Art Arfons, who competed with the "Green Monster" unlimited tractor, David Willoughby...
    5 KB (618 words) - 03:25, 6 June 2023
  • Thumbnail for Bonneville Speedway
    a „Lakester” style car fashioned from a WWII aircraft belly tank 1964 Art Arfons The Green Monster 434.022 664.694 [data needed] 1965 Craig Breedlove Spirit...
    20 KB (1,424 words) - 20:27, 30 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Water speed record
    On 9 July 1989 Craig Arfons, son of Walt Arfons, builder of the world's first jet car, and nephew of record breaker Art Arfons, tried for the record...
    36 KB (3,902 words) - 17:15, 16 September 2024
  • player Art Anderson, American football player Art Aragon, American boxer Art Arfons, American racing driver Art Asbury, Canadian motorboat racer Art Babbitt...
    22 KB (2,708 words) - 00:24, 2 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for General Electric J79
    Vigilante Northrop X-21 SSM-N-9/RGM-15 Regulus II Land speed record cars Art Arfons' "Green Monster" Craig Breedlove's "Spirit of America - Sonic 1" North...
    19 KB (2,429 words) - 21:50, 24 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Don Garlits Museum of Drag Racing
    home to the International Drag Racing Hall of Fame. Inductees include Art Arfons, Sydney Allard, Zora Arkus-Duntov, Ray Godman, Raymond Beadle, Shirley...
    2 KB (217 words) - 14:26, 9 September 2022
  • Thumbnail for Allison V-1710
    attracted by its reliability and good power output, adopted the V-1710; Art Arfons and brother Walt in particular used one, in Green Monster. It proved unsuccessful...
    38 KB (5,243 words) - 12:00, 15 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of sports rivalries
    (August 2009). "FEATURES: Great Rivalries: IRL vs Cart and Breedlove vs Arfons". Automobile Magazine. Archived from the original on 10 March 2010. Retrieved...
    273 KB (14,675 words) - 13:51, 24 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of people from Ohio
    Appleby (football player) (Massillon) Eddie Arcaro (jockey) (Cincinnati) Art Arfons (land speed record tester) (Akron) Bob Armstrong (boxer) (Washington)...
    104 KB (10,008 words) - 19:07, 26 September 2024
  • Tom Green worked with Walt Arfons to design and drive the Wingfoot Express, a jet-powered land speed record car. Green drove the car to a world record...
    4 KB (680 words) - 00:04, 24 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Dallas International Motor Speedway
    site of another racing tragedy on Oct. 16, 1971 when race car driver Art Arfons crashed his jet-powered "Super Cyclops" resulting in the deaths of two...
    3 KB (480 words) - 14:24, 26 April 2024
  • 54 mph (311.47 km/h). Since then, the trophy has gone to Mickey Thompson, Art Arfons, the Summers Brothers, Don Vesco, Al Teague, and ten-time winner George...
    21 KB (1,771 words) - 23:32, 7 September 2024
  • Johnson Paul Newman John Surtees Zora Arkus-Duntov Henry Banks Dick Burleson Art Chester Ray Evernham Fonty Flock Darrell Gwynn Ab Jenkins Stephen Olvey and...
    27 KB (1,380 words) - 12:41, 18 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for International Motorsports Hall of Fame
    Motorcyclist 2007  United States Bruton Smith Race promoter 2007  United States Art Arfons † Land speed record holder 2008  United States Red Byron † Stock car driver...
    61 KB (3,251 words) - 15:05, 4 June 2024
  • manager (Bury, Blackpool). Thomas F. Torrance, 94, Scottish theologian. Art Arfons, 81, American jet-car driver and drag racer, three-time world land speed...
    113 KB (8,763 words) - 12:22, 24 September 2024
  • Giagos - professional fighter with the Ultimate Fighting Championship Art Arfons – world land speed record holder George Constantine – racing driver Chris...
    131 KB (13,234 words) - 09:41, 25 September 2024
  • Name Name Country Related through Notes Walt Arfons Art Arfons  United States Mother José Dolhem Didier Pironi  France Same father, mothers were sisters...
    114 KB (930 words) - 19:32, 27 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for October 1971
    Las Vegas, Nevada, on an aerial tour of the Grand Canyon in Arizona. Art Arfons, an American racer who broke the world land speed record on three occasions...
    69 KB (9,524 words) - 10:21, 24 May 2024
  • racing pioneers raced at Biloxi. "Big Daddy" Don Garlits, Tommy Ivo, Art Arfons, Chris Karamesines, Ronnie Sox, and Mr. Norm's Grand Spaulding Dodge....
    5 KB (461 words) - 21:23, 14 April 2024