Three-time world-land-speed record holder and drag-racing legend Art Arfons died Monday, Dec. 3, in his native Akron, Ohio. He was 81. Although known for setting the unlimited land-speed record three ...
One of the most colorful figures in automotive competition died Monday at the age of 81. He was Art Arfons, former world land speed record holder and a legend for his jet-powered dragsters. He named ...
Art Arfons was one of the giants of land-speed record-breaking. His Sixties duels with his fellow American Craig Breedlove on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, when they kicked the record from 400mph ...
When Walt Arfons first strapped a jet engine onto a hot rod, experts thought the car would melt, explode or spin wildly out of control. They were wrong. Working in his family’s old feed mill and ...
One of Art's newestplaythings 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 intake ...
Walt Arfons, always the devoted Goodyear man, standing on the salt in 1965. Art Arfons in 1964 on the Bonneville Salt Flats, where he set a land speed record of 536.71 mph. Walt Arfons never smiled.
Things were different in Art Arfons' day, that's for sure: For one, you could buy a scrapped GE J-79 jet engine pulled from an F-104 Starfighter for $600, fix it up in your backyard and build a car ...
For those readers who don't follow the rather esoteric sport of land speed racing beyond Andy Green's speed-of-sound blast or the Beach Boys' ode to Craig Breedlove; who've never gone down to a local ...
Cruising down Massillon Road on Akron’s south side is like a trip into the Twilight Zone, where everything is normal and then — bam — everything changes. The strip of one-lane divided highway meanders ...
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