Autoblog http://www.autoblog.com Autoblog http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.autoblog.com/media/feedlogo.gif Autoblog http://www.autoblog.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/<![CDATA[eBay Find of the Day: Art Arfons' Green Monster LSR car]]>http://www.autoblog.com/2009/09/19/ebay-find-of-the-day-art-arfons-green-monster-lsr-car/http://www.autoblog.com/2009/09/19/ebay-find-of-the-day-art-arfons-green-monster-lsr-car/http://www.autoblog.com/2009/09/19/ebay-find-of-the-day-art-arfons-green-monster-lsr-car/#commentsFiled under: , ,


Art Arfons' Green Monster - Click above for high-res image gallery

Are you the kind of guy who thinks top speed is everything? Want car that can be called the fastest thing on wheels without exaggerating? Think a Veyron is fast? How about a Top Fuel dragster? At 320 mph, nobody would call one slow, but it wouldn't be half as fast as the car we have for you today. It's a genuine Land Speed Record (LSR) car that has done 650 mph! Is that fast enough for ya, slick? Well, it was fast enough for one guy named Slick, who topped 650 mph with the car at Bonneville in 1978.

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 after it was crashed by Arfons in 1966. Art had already run 576+ in the car but crashed trying for more. After rebuilding the Green Monster, minus its adjustable front wing, Arfons never raced it again, instead selling it to Slick Gardner who ran it frequently, ultimately topping 650 mph in 1978.

According to the listing, it features a 15,000-pound thrust, 17,500 horsepower General Electric J-79 jet engine from a B-58 Hustler bomber that Arfons bought for $5,000. When Arfons repaired and tested the engine, it "rattled windows over a wide area and incinerated his chicken coop." It has a padded cell for a cockpit (but no straightjacket as far as we can tell) and it rides on LSR grooved steel wheels. The car currently resides in the parking garage at The Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles, and the the bidding so far has failed to reach the reserve at just $51,100.


Gallery: Art Arfons' Green Monster


[Source: eBay Motors]

eBay Find of the Day: Art Arfons' Green Monster LSR car originally appeared on Autoblog on Sat, 19 Sep 2009 16:54:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>art arfonsArtArfonsGreen monsterGreenMonsterland speed recordLandSpeedRecordlsrthe petersenthe petersen automotive museumthe petersen museumThePetersenThePetersenAutomotiveMuseumThePetersenMuseumSat, 19 Sep 2009 16:54:00 EST http://www.autoblog.com/feed/19166180/article-comments.xml http://www.autoblog.com/feed/2009/09/19/ebay-find-of-the-day-art-arfons-green-monster-lsr-car/19166180/article-detail.xml 19166180 http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2009/09/green-monster-00_thumbnail.jpg http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2009/09/green-monster-00.jpg <![CDATA[eBay Find of the Day: jet-powered shifter kart]]>http://www.autoblog.com/2006/07/30/ebay-find-of-the-day-jet-powered-shifter-kart/http://www.autoblog.com/2006/07/30/ebay-find-of-the-day-jet-powered-shifter-kart/http://www.autoblog.com/2006/07/30/ebay-find-of-the-day-jet-powered-shifter-kart/#commentsFiled under:



What is it with slapping jet engines on all forms of four-wheeled machina? The latest is this one-of-a-kind shifter kit with a jet engine built by "Turbo" Tim Arfons, according to Winding Road, who is the son of Bonneville Salt Flats legend Art Arfons. The kart features a JFS100 turbine that was commandeered from its previous life as a starter for the main engine of an A-7 Corsair fighter plane. The jet engine can spin to a lofty 72,000 rpm and run on either jet fuel, diesel or kerosene - whatever's handy. As far as the seller knows, the kart can at least reach 100 mph if not more. The asking price for the Jet Kart is $9,000 O.B.O., and so far only two offers have been made for the kart and its rolling carrier.

[Source: eBay via Winding Road]

Continue reading eBay Find of the Day: jet-powered shifter kart

eBay Find of the Day: jet-powered shifter kart originally appeared on Autoblog on Sun, 30 Jul 2006 09:02:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>Art ArfonsArtArfonsJet KartJetKartshifter kartShifterKartTim ArfonsTimArfonsSun, 30 Jul 2006 09:02:00 EST http://www.autoblog.com/feed/648474/article-comments.xml http://www.autoblog.com/feed/2006/07/30/ebay-find-of-the-day-jet-powered-shifter-kart/648474/article-detail.xml 648474 http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2006/07/eb_1.jpg_thumbnail.jpg http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2006/07/eb_1.jpg.jpg -1 2