Joan Jett with a jet engine car, one of the few rock stars to get photographed with a dragster thank you Marc!

https://www.instagram.com/creemmag/

It's Walt Arfons' Green Monster!

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10157791132624160&set=p.10157791132624160&type=3

Arfons and Shelby promoting the Sunbeam Tiger

 
https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/vintage-shots-from-days-gone-by.428585/page-6263

first time I've seen this version of the Arfons Green Monster... I've only ever seen it with a single chute

http://georgeklass.net/dragsters.html

the Green Monster getting an up close and personal from the fuzz... looks like a silver dollar by the right front wheel to me

and now we know where George Lucas got the term Hyper Drive!

https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/mckinstry-photo-collection.927529/

according to Autoweek the Arfons Green Monster got that way because they only had access to one paint color

John Deere Green

https://autoweek.com/article/other-motorsports/snake-charmer-green-mamba-pilot-doug-rose-killed-jet-car-crash-age-80

Betty Skelton readies to set the land speed record for women in Art Arfons Cyclops before her record run at Bonneville on September 27, 1965

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/vintage-bonneville-car-pictures.287039/page-18

Firestone presents the Green Monster, at the Daytona 500, 1966

https://revslib.stanford.edu/catalog/rp069nk7997

The Green Monster #11, with a Allison v12 and some funky painting on the valve cover

Art's mom painted the teeth on! She was going for the Flying Tiger motif

1959 Nationals
http://sparetimeactivities.net/GreenMonsters.htm

At just under 17 years of age, Art joined the United States Navy. He was sent to diesel mechanic school, then assigned as a mechanic to a landing craft in the Pacific Theater. This was a very good job for Arfons to utilize his mechanical talents. He participated in two battles including the invasion of Okinawa, and then was discharged after three years, as a Petty Officer Second Class. He returned to Ohio, was married, and had two sons and a daughter. In 1952, he and his half-brother Walt became fascinated with drag racing and built their first Green Monster. In this endeavor, they were supported by their mother, who was also fascinated by the sport. Art and Walt continued their drag racing partnership with a series of Green Monster cars until the late 1950s

http://www.prowleronline.com/ubb/Forum18/HTML/004584.html

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=249814475483013&set=gm.1119830874830194&type=3&permPage=1

https://www.facebook.com/groups/stiffspeed/permalink/1124588014354480/

The Land Speed Record vehicles. The variety of design and sophistication

In December of 1905 on the Arles-Salon road in southern France, the outspoken Victor Hémery set a new Land Speed Record stopping the clocks in 20 3/5sec and 108.59 mph with the above 1905 Darracq

1905 Napier 

104.65mph  that record was bested a few minutes later by the $50,000 twin engined Mercedes, of H.B. Bowden

 http://www.rodauthority.com/news/january-31st-marks-the-anniversary-of-the-first-car-to-break-100-mph/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=january-31st-marks-the-anniversary-of-the-first-car-to-break-100-mph

the above is looking at it from back to front

most images from
 http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2012/07/land-speed-record-vehicles-part-one.html and
http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2012/07/land-speed-record-vehicles-part-2-jet.html
the 1905 Darracq photo and more story about it here: http://theoldmotor.com/?p=134988