Things were different in Art Arfons' day, that's for sure: For one, you could buy a scrapped GE J-79 jet engine pulled from an F-104 Starfighter for $600, fix it up in your backyard and build a car ...

Walt Arfons, always the devoted Goodyear man, standing on the salt in 1965. Art Arfons in 1964 on the Bonne­ville Salt Flats, where he set a land speed record of 536.71 mph. Walt Arfons never smiled.

One of the most colorful figures in automotive competition died Monday at the age of 81. He was Art Arfons, former world land speed record holder and a legend for his jet-powered dragsters. He named ...

For those readers who don't follow the rather esoteric sport of land speed racing beyond Andy Green's speed-of-sound blast or the Beach Boys' ode to Craig Breedlove; who've never gone down to a local ...

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DETROIT (June 11, 2013) — No one seemed to know why the two brothers stopped talking, but their resulting rivalry led to some of the fastest cars ever built — two of which went more than 600 mph. Over ...

Three-time world-land-speed record holder and drag-racing legend Art Arfons died Monday, Dec. 3, in his native Akron, Ohio. He was 81. Although known for setting the unlimited land-speed record three ...

When Walt Arfons first strapped a jet engine onto a hot rod, experts thought the car would melt, explode or spin wildly out of control. They were wrong. Working in his family’s old feed mill and ...

One of these days, they may have to put traffic lights on the Bonneville Salt Flats. The silly season had barely started when Illinois’ Tom Green shocked speed-jaded Bonneville buffs by piloting Walt ...

Walt Arfons, a self-taught mechanical engineer and champion drag racer who built the first jet-engine dragster, conceived of innovations that helped save lives on the raceway, and had a car that held ...