Art Arfons
 

Found this shot of Art Arfons on a local FB page. Taken in the 50's/ 60's behind the family mill a few miles south of Akron Ohio in Springfield twp.


Mike

My memories of Art are on a 2 jet engine pulling tractor. Was not super competitve but usually a good light show!

he was a legend

Awesome pics!
Always had an affinity for the jet cars over the years as my uncle raced this one in Australia in the late 60's.

Pretty cool Mike. Thanks for posting. Phil

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Anything Arfons is always cool, thanks for posting!
Here's the shot I posted a few weeks back w/ Dale's Dynamiting Truck in the background also a couple other Arfons pics from past threads too.
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I think about 1984 I saw one of his relatives on a quad atv with a small jet on it. Crazy.
That reminds me theres a local exotic car dealer here who had a motorcycle with a jet in it. I am thinking he said it was a helicopter starter engine?? He had taken it to another dealer and backed into a parking place. When he went to leave caught the mulch on fire!

Heard a story where he tied a J79 jet engine to some trees in his yard -- pointed it out to the swamp and fired it up to test it. Pissed off his neighbors!

There used to be a big oak tree at the starting line of one of the drag strips here. He came one year and killed half that tree. Came back the next year and killed the other half.

There used to be a potato field across the road from the track at Stanton (aka "McBrides", aka "Central Michigan Dragway" aka "Mid Michigan Motorplex"). Behind the starting line was a picket fence. He came up one year and blew all the pickets into the potato field across the road.

They fixed the fence by nailing the pickets to the other side of the posts.

K

When I was in HS, I read an article on Art and one of the original Green Monsters, about how he controlled the electrically operated clutch using a generator. When the voltage dropped or rose, it made the clutch either lock up or slip. The first slipper clutch. The guy was a backyard genius.

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