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	Art Arfons - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Arfons had two half brothers by his mother; Walt Arfons, ten years older, who was to become his partner and later competitor in autosports, and Dale, eight years older, as well as one sister Lou, eighteen months older.
		Arfon's path led almost inevitably to land speed record racing at Bonneville, first in 1960 with the "Anteater", a car modeled after John Cobb's "Railton Special" and powered by an Allison V-1710 aircraft engine.
		In deference to the car's less than excellent aerodynamics, Arfons introduced another innovation; it was the first land speed record car to utilize a wing to produce downforce to prevent the car from becoming airborne.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Art_Arfons (642 words)

	Motorsports Hall of Fame (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		At age 65, Arfons is the oldest active driver ever inducted into the Motorsports Hall of Fame.
		Arfons built a dozen Monsters in the 50's, all powered by Allison, Ranger or Roll-Royce piston enginesÑincluding drag racing's first "sidewinder" (1955).
		Arfons ultimately upped his average to 576.553, only to watch Breedlove raise the mark to 600.601.
	www.mshf.com /hof/arfons_art.htm (410 words)

	Walt Arfons - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Walt Arfons (born 1916?) is the half brother of Art Arfons, his former partner in drag racing, and his competitor in jet powered land speed record racing.
		Arfons is also credited with being the first to torch a junked car with the exhaust from his jet dragster, in order to provide entertainment for the crowd at Indianapolis Raceway Park one year when the race had been rained out.
		Arfons also partnered with Tom Green to build the jet powered Wingfoot Express, which held the World Land Speed Record for three days during the battle between Art Arfons and Craig Breedlove.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Walt_Arfons (423 words)

	Jon Craig Arfons - The Fastest Boat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Craig Arfons, a former automotive drag racing champion, was the next to take up the challenge [of the world water speed record].
		Members of Arfons' crew say his boat reached a speed of 263 mph before it became airborne and began to cartwheel across the mirror-smooth lake.
		Arfons tried to deploy a safety parachute, but the angle at which his boat was traveling prevented the parachute from opening.
	www.lesliefield.com /personalities/jon_craig_arfons_the_fastest_boat.htm (155 words)

	The Racing Campbells - Donald & Malcolm Campbell - Hungry for Horsepower: Art Arfons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Arfons blistered the desolate salt flats of Utah in his Green Monster (the name Arfons eventually gave to all 27 cars and five tractors he built), a shiny green speedster that looked more like a rocket than a car.
		Arfons is the last of a dying breed.
		Arfons — dressed in gray pants, a yellow T-shirt, red suspenders, and a belt with a big buckle spelling out "Art" — shows off the 1965 V-8 red Sunbeam Tiger he was given in exchange for an endorsement.
	www.racingcampbells.com /content/campbell.archives/art.arfons.asp (4531 words)

	clevescene.com \| News & Features \| Feature \| Hungry for Horsepower (Page 3) \| 1999-07-08
		Arfons and his crew celebrate after a record-breaking 576-mph run in November 1965.Arfons can still be found every morning, tinkering away in his Akron garage.
		Arfons traveled the country on the drag racing circuit and, with the help of his brother Walt, built his various Green Monsters from cannibalized parts of other cars.
		Arfons got his hands on an F-86 jet fighter engine from a military surplus store and in 1963 went to work designing a car around it.
	www.clevescene.com /Issues/1999-07-08/news/feature_3.html (775 words)

	The Thorn on the Web (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Arfons' intense rivalry with fellow record breaker Craig Breedlove inflated the stagnant record from 400 mph to 600 mph in the short span of just two years.
		Arfons found that his three-and-a-quarter ton car was capable of 0-600 mph acceleration in 18 seconds, with forces as high as 3 G's pressing him back into his seat.
		Arfons was there to witness the car exceed 700 mph, but did not have enough money to stay and witness the final record of 763 mph.
	www.rose-hulman.edu /thorn/archive/981204/fou.html (1318 words)

	clevescene.com \| News & Features \| Feature \| Hungry for Horsepower (Page 5) \| 1999-07-08
		The fiery crash knocked Arfons out of land speed racing, but his mechanical skills and need for speed were too great to keep him sidelined completely.
		By 1973 Arfons was involved in professional tractor pulling, in which drivers compete to see who can pull a 7,000-pound weight transfer machine the farthest.
		Arfons still competes in tractor pulls and is one of the sport's top draws.
	www.clevescene.com /Issues/1999-07-08/news/feature_5.html (732 words)

	The Racing Campbells - Donald & Malcolm Campbell - Tom Green & Wingfoot Express (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Arfons and Green, armed with just a flboard and chalk,offered their theories to a board of 13 executives and among other things they used aerodynamic calculations to predict that Bluebird CN7 was good for a maximum of around 400mph, Doc.
		Arfons was hospitalized but released himself and set to repairing the car's twisted frame.
		Arfons went on to build the second WINGFOOT EXPRESS with solid fuel rockets but, despite fiercesome performance, it lacked enough sustainable power to maintain record pace through the measured distance.
	www.racingcampbells.com /content/campbell.archives/wingfoot.express.asp (1799 words)

	Art Arfons -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Arfons had two half brothers by his mother; (Click link for more info and facts about Walt Arfons) Walt Arfons, ten years older, who was to become his partner and later competitor in autosports, and Dale, eight years older, as well as one sister Lou, eighteen months older.
		He was sent to diesel (A craftsman skilled in operating machine tools) mechanic school, then assigned as a mechanic to a (Naval craft designed for putting ashore troops and equipment) landing craft in the (Click link for more info and facts about Pacific Theater) Pacific Theater.
		He held the world land speed record three times during the closely fought competition of 1964 and 1965, but after a bad crash in 1996 turned his attention to (Click link for more info and facts about jet turbine) jet turbine powered tractor pulling competition where he was, as usual, successful.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/ar/art_arfons.htm (541 words)

	Thrust SSC - Mach 1 Club
		Arfons was hitting 132 miles an hour on tires that were safe at 50.
		But by then Arfons was turning his attention to the land speed record of 394 MPH set by the late John Cobb of England in 1947.
		Arfons' eyes were covered with gauze, the skin around his eyes and cheekbones raw from salt burns from flying glass.
	www.thrustssc.com /thrustssc/Club/Secure/Art_Arfons.html (3120 words)

	T U R B O K A R T :: Home
		Meanwhile, Tim Arfons has the output reduction gearbox and crashbox back at his shop, and he will be working on reassembling everything which means that we'll be going on a road trip in the next few weeks or so to pick up the engine and the outdrive.
		Tim Arfons has separated the power turbine module from the engine and stripped it down to the bare casing, and he has sent it to Columbia Helicopter who will begin the process of modifying the casing so that the exhaust outlet points upward.
		I consulted Tim Arfons on the engine, since he is a real expert on T58's, and decided the engine repairs were better off in his hands.
	www.turbokart.com /turbineboat2.htm (4404 words)

	clevescene.com \| News & Features \| Feature \| Hungry for Horsepower (Page 4) \| 1999-07-08
		Arfons talks with awe and respect when asked what it's like to drive that fast, powered by a roaring jet engine and an afterburner.
		As he did in drag racing — which he continued to compete in until 1972 — Arfons quickly rose to the top of the international heap.
		Arfons regained the title of "fastest man on Earth" on October 27, tearing through the Bonneville Salt Flats at 536 mph.
	www.clevescene.com /Issues/1999-07-08/news/feature_4.html (711 words)

	Encyclopedia: Walt Arfons
		Drag racing is a form of auto racing in which cars attempt to complete a fairly short, straight and level course in the shortest amount of time.
		Alternate meanings: Cherokee (disambiguation) The Cherokee are a people native to North America who first inhabited what is now the eastern and southeastern United States before most were forcefully moved to the Ozark Plateau.
		The Green Monster was the name of several vehicles built by Art Arfons who was often described as the junk yard genius.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Walt-Arfons (874 words)

	Motorsports News - Racing News and Information
		Arfons' weapon was his homebuilt Green Monster, his 15th reincarnation under that name, built around a pair of J-79 jet engines.
		Eight days later Breedlove reached 600 and Arfons was back again two days afterward, and had a 615 on the clock when a wheel failed on his return run and the car crashed.
		Earlier, drag racer Arfons was the first to break 150 mph in his Green Monster No. 6, and reached 180 in Green Monster No. 11 powered by a V12 Rolls-Royce airplane fighter engine.
	www.freewebs.com /motorsports/legends.htm (19487 words)

	HickokSports.com - Biography - Art Arfons
		3, 1926, Akron, OH Arfons began on the road to the land speed record by accident--almost literally.
		An avid pilot, he drove to the Akron airport one Sunday to discover that the road was blocked and lined with people.
		Arfons was doing more than 600 mph when a wheel came off his car.
	www.hickoksports.com /biograph/arfonsar.shtml (314 words)

	Thrust SSC
		Arfons reached 250 mph but knew his car was not up to the job, and Ostich also withdrew with problems after exceeding 300 mph.
		Five days later, Arfons brought out Green Monster and achieved 576.553 mph, but had to wrestle the car to a stop on the return run after a rear tyre burst at over 600 mph and ripped away one of the parachutes.
		The indefatigable Arfons returned with an improved Green Monster in 1966, but on the first run of his record attempt a front wheel bearing broke at about 610 mph and the car went out of control, performing a series of barrel rolls across the salt before coming to rest.
	www.thrustssc.com /thrustssc/History/The_Jet_Car_Joust.html (811 words)

	Motorsport.com: News channel
		Art Arfons in his Green Monster cars traded the Land Speed Record back and forth with 2001 Legends inductee Craig Breedlove several times in the 1960s.
		Arfons also was the first drag racer through the 150 and 180 mph barriers, and the inventor of the braking parachute.
		Arfons also was a returnee to the ballot in the Historic Era category (active more than 30 years ago) after a nine-year absence, having been on four times previously in the early 1990s.
	www.motorsport.com /news/article.asp?ID=122947&FS=HISTORY (1199 words)

	Craig Breedlove:Land Speed Champion - Autos & Auto Racing - Liberal Arts & Crafts network (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Then a drag racer from Ohio, Art Arfons built a land speed car in his back yard he called "Green Monster," using a military surplus J79 jet aircraft engine with afterburner to reach an astounding 434 mph on the Utah salt flats for a new world's record in May of that same year.
		Arfons responded by breaking that record with 536 mph.
		Arfons was never able to better that speed.
	www.liberalartsandcrafts.net /racing/articles/people/breedlove.shtml (1050 words)

	Speed Demon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		In 1991, 20 years after a crack-up that killed two bystanders and the reporter that Arfons had allowed to ride with him, he dusts off his goggles and climbs back into one of his jet-powered creations, at age 63.
		Finn captures the excitement of the gear-head scene in the ’50s and ’60s with footage of Arfons’ early drag races, his attempts at record breaking on the great salt flats of Utah and bone-warming bits of a To Tell the Truth episode.
		Arfons quietly goes against societal expectations and his family members, who in glimpses display the bitterness and resignation, as well as the pride, that come from loving someone who, as Finn says, "has raised himself to a higher level."
	www.citypaper.net /articles/080599/ae.tv.shtml (482 words)

	Salon Arts & Entertainment \| Speed habit
		Art Arfons broke land speed records for two decades before a monstrous car crash sent him back to his workshop.
		Arfons is the subject of the documentary "The Green Monster," a one-hour program that airs Tuesday night on the PBS series "P.O.V." From the film's opening shot -- a silhouetted Arfons curls his helmet under his arm as smoke curls behind him -- it's clear that first-time director David Finn sees Arfons as a hero.
		The intense rivalry eventually drove the brothers apart, but the two continued to compete until Art Arfons nearly died in a disastrous crash in 1971, which took out two bystanders and killed a journalist who was in the passenger seat.
	www.salon.com /ent/log/1999/06/29/green_monster (492 words)

	Matador Records \| The Green Monster
		Arfons discovers the rental rates for centrifuge rides cost tens of thousands of dollars.
		Arfons is a fascinating character, driven and yet reserved -- he and his family tell the wry story behind Arfons' obsession with an odd sense of pride and wonderment.
		What is most impressive about Arfons and the film is that he is well into his later years and is still building and racing his cars against time.
	www.matadorrecords.com /greenmonster (534 words)

	10 Tenths Motorsport - Art Arfons and the high-mounted wing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		When Art Arfons took his Cyclops jet dragster to Bonneville in 1962, he equipped it with a wing mounted above the car and actuated by a hydraulic cylinder attached to the front suspension.
		Arfons set a USAC jet national speed record of 330 mph.
		When Arfons returned to Bonneville in 1964 with his Green Monster land speed record car, he again used the high-mounted self-adjusting wing concept.
	www.ten-tenths.com /forum/archive/index.php/t-2463.html (235 words)

	Motor Sports Hall of Fame - Cyclops (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		In 1962 Art Arfons built this jet powered car in an attempt to break the world land speed record.
		Art Arfons was once described as the "junk yard genius of the jet set".
		His cars were often crude, but they were extremely fast and were built for a fraction of the cost of his better financed rivals.
	www.mshf.com /museum/cyclops.htm (243 words)

	Columns - Martin Chronicles - 12/9/03
		Still, at the 1957, 1958 and 1959 NHRA Nationals, Art Arfons set top speed with his "Green Monster" Allison-powered entries with respective speeds of 152.54, 156.25, and 172.74-mph speeds.
		In the history of drag racing performance, Art Arfons claimed the first run on gas over 160-mph when he clocked a 168.89 Sept. 24, 1958 at McBride's Dragstrip in Michigan.
		In July 1960, the Arfons officially gave up on the Allison airplane engine and went with jet power, Westinghouse jets to be exact, and if you're at all familiar with drag racing now, you know what that led to.
	www.dragracingonline.com /martinchronicles/vi_1-2.html (494 words)

	Art Arfons - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Art Arfons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
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	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Art-Arfons.html (672 words)

	Jon Craig Arfons - The Perilous Pursuit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Arfons calculated that this aggressive thrust-to-weight ratio would give him an advantage over [Ken] Warby.
		Arfons flew into his first pass with the jet's afterburner switched on full tilt.
		One hour and thirty-four minutes later Jon Craig Arfons was pronounced dead.
	www.lesliefield.com /personalities/jon_craig_arfons_the_perilous_pursuit.htm (188 words)

	DRAGBIKE.COM, Headlining News From The Motorcycle Drag Racing World
		Those kinds of comments are expected from the spectators at a drag race where exhibition wheelstanders and jet cars are performing, but when they all come from veteran riders in the Screamin' Eagle Top Fuel Harley class, you know there's something special in store.
		It's exactly the kind of reaction team owner Tim Arfons and rider Mike West were hoping for when they assembled the world's first jet motorcycle with symmetrical thrust on both sides of the rear tire.
		Arfons, the son of legendary jet car and land-speed record racer Art Arfons, said several of the Harley riders offered invaluable insight, especially regarding the bike's handling characteristics.
	www.dragbike.com /news/03-00/031900h.htm (450 words)

	Art Arfons Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
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	Art Arfons -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		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.
		He began his career as a drag racer in the early 1950s with his brother Walter, with whom he built a series of racing…
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