This Day in Automotive History 1171965 Art Arfons Sets Landspeed Record
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Posted 04 December 2007 - xix:40
I've simply had a message to say and old friend of mine, and an icon of the world of the state speed record has passed on. Art Arfons was known as the "Genius of the junkyard", and he was. He will be buried in his race suit, holding his spanners with a J47 engine manual by his side. I cannot call back of anything more fitting.
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Posted 04 Dec 2007 - 20:23
Oh dear, that's a very sad piece of news. From having read a bit nigh the history of the WLSR, it seems that it breeds characters, but none more so than Art Arfons.
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Posted 04 December 2007 - 21:12
awwwwwwwwww 
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Posted 04 December 2007 - 21:48
One of those with the right stuff - RIP
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Posted 05 December 2007 - 00:26
all the greenish monster fans are pitiful
few men accept washed so much with so lilliputian upper-case letter
a truthful HOT RODDER
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Dennis Hockenbury
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Posted 05 December 2007 - 02:52
I completely hold, Art Arfons truly did have the right stuff.
RIP
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Posted 05 December 2007 - 08:41
RIP .. form a" The Greenish Monster Man"...FAN Sorry to here this news
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Posted 05 December 2007 - 12:23
Aw, terrible news. He was a total legend.
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Posted 05 December 2007 - 22:02
Originally posted by f1steveuk
I've simply had a message to say and sometime friend of mine, and an icon of the world of the land speed record has passed on. Art Arfons was known as the "Genius of the junkyard", and he was. He will exist buried in his race suit, belongings his spanners with a J47 engine transmission by his side. I cannot remember of anything more than plumbing fixtures.
Agreed. Very pitiful.
-Wm.
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Posted 05 Dec 2007 - 22:52
He did a lot with very piffling, a guy with amazing energy and drive to win.
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Posted 06 December 2007 - 01:19
RIP my friend!
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Posted 06 December 2007 - 03:05
Originally posted by ray b
all the green monster fans are lamentable
amen.
Jack
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Posted 06 December 2007 - 03:59
......because Art's afinity with the "Junk Yard",wheels would be 'Halibrand'..(because they would be 'new calorie-free weight fabric /magnesium !!) are we guessing the seat is from an 'Austin Healey', peradventure regulation USAF 'seat belts'...its something about "when Men where Men !!!!!..................'Art was most certainly a leader
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Posted 06 December 2007 - 04:17
The Green Monster in Kuzma's shop
(photos © Cardin Collection; by permission of Tom Cardin) :
I got to put my hands on this car at a Los Angeles show. Cold and a little lumpy, IIRC. I always grin with pleasure, thinking of the Arfons' escapades.
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Posted 06 December 2007 - 10:19
Very sad. What a wonderful grapheme.
The archetypal 'man in the shed' who could and did make earth headlines on a shoestring budget through the brilliance of his imagination and the genius in his own easily.
With the decease of Tom Dark-green a few years back that leaves the FASTEST MAN ON EARTH club at just three surviving members with no sign of whatever new-comers on the horizon.
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Posted 06 December 2007 - xiii:02
Originally posted by Frank S
The Green Monster in Kuzma'southward store
(photos © Cardin Drove; by permission of Tom Cardin) :
I got to put my hands on this car at a Los Angeles show. Common cold and a piddling lumpy, IIRC. I e'er smile with pleasure, thinking of the Arfons' escapades.
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RIP Green Monster. I have a couple of photos of that motorcar besides somewhere... Taken at a motorcar show in Stockholm many years agone, probably 1970. What year was it used?
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Posted 06 December 2007 - 19:21
Originally posted by DOHC
RIP Green Monster. I accept a couple of photos of that car too somewhere... Taken at a car show in Stockholm many years ago, probably 1970. What year was it used?
I think at that place were various versions of the Light-green Monster, and, of course, many previous elevate cars such as the "Anteater", but the principal years of the Arfons/Breedlove battles at Bonneville were 1964-1966.
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Posted 07 December 2007 - 02:28
The Green Monster in Cardin's pictures may have been some number equally high as "27".
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Posted 07 December 2007 - 14:47
And today comes the news that Arfons has been elected to the International Motorsports Hall of Fame. It'southward a shame that press release didn't come out a calendar week earlier.
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Posted 07 Dec 2007 - 21:14
Originally posted by Disco Stu
And today comes the news that Arfons has been elected to the International Motorsports Hall of Fame. Information technology's a shame that press release didn't come up out a week before.
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12/vii/2007
Legendary Pro Stock racer and engine builder Nib "Grumpy" Jenkins is amidst six 2008 inductees to the International Motorsports Hall of Fame.
NHRA Pro Stock legend Bill "Grumpy" Jenkins headlines the six 2008 inductees to the International Motorsports Hall of Fame. The listing also includes late drag racing pioneer Art Arfons, and the late Ralph Seagraves, a longtime NHRA supporter as head of R.J. Reynolds' Special Events Operations.
Robert "Red" Byron, Frank Kurtis, and Everett "Cotton" Owens round out the list of six inductees. determined by a console of 125 international motorsports media, who will be enshrined in the Hall in Talladega, Ala., on Apr 24, 2008 are: Fine art Arfons,
Jenkins' innovative employ of his mechanical engineering skills in the mid-1950s produced many of elevate racing'south virtually successful vehicles. Considered the begetter of pro stock, Jenkins, congenital engines for 61 NHRA Eliminators, producing v championships and three ARHA championships. Jenkins as well earned a considerable reputation as a commuter, winning a combined total of 13 NHRA national Pro Stock events from 1965 to 1975 with ane championship as a driver.
Afrons (1926-2007) is best known for setting the unlimited country speed record three times in his "Green Monster" racers. He besides fabricated significant contributions to drag racing, tractor pulling and powerboat racing during a five-decade career.
Seagraves (1928-1998) helped initiate R.J. Reynolds Tobacco'due south sponsorship of motorsports in the 1970s. He was president of Reynolds' Special Events Operations, now known every bit Sports Marketing Enterprises, from 1972 until his retirement in January 1985. During that menses, Reynolds forged sponsor relationships with several motorsports sanctioning bodies, including NASCAR and the NHRA.
Byron (1915-1960) got his start in the early 1930s in races in Talladega and won the kickoff NASCAR-sanctioned race on the Daytona embankment-road course on Feb. 15, 1948. He ran in six NASCAR races in 1949, winning two and earning 842.5 points to become the first driver to win a NASCAR points championship.
Kurtis (1908-1987), through his Kurtis-Kraft Inc. house, produced 550 midgets in kit and "fix-to-run" forms. The combination of the Kurtis chassis powered by a smaller version of the famous Offenhauser engine was virtually unbeatable for more than 20 years.
Owens won more than 100 NASCAR Featherlite Modified Tour races during the 1950s before making the transition to the NASCAR Grand National series. As a car owner and commuter, Owens' combined career statistics include 41 wins and 38 poles in 487 races.
The Hall is dedicated to the preservation of the history of motorsports. Each year, the annual International Motorsports Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony is held on the grounds of the museum to accolade those men and women chosen for induction from among the greatest names in all of motorsports.
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