Art Arfons with 'Green Monster' Land Speed Record car mb-code 00667941 Lord Mayor 1910

Lord Mayor 1910

'Mansion House Monitor'

Norman (1873-1963) was a banker

and was stored in a London furniture depository from 1910 until exhumed in 1956

Art Arfons with 'Green Monster' Land Speed Record car mb-code 00667941 Lord Mayor 1910Art Arfons with 'Green Monster' Land Speed Record car, c1966. Arfons set three Land Speed Records in his jet powered 'Green Monster' car in the 1960s, the fastest being 576. 553 mph in 1965. In 1966, when attempting to regain the record from his great rival Craig Breedlove, a wheel came off the car when travelling at over 600 mph. Arfons survived without serious injury, but never regained the record.