{"id":2993,"date":"2014-01-28T14:47:07","date_gmt":"2014-01-28T22:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/?p=2993"},"modified":"2015-11-11T10:14:06","modified_gmt":"2015-11-11T18:14:06","slug":"green-monster-turbine-dragster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/green-monster-turbine-dragster\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Monster Turbine Dragster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2994\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/green-monster-turbine-dragster\/quakercity_5-26-13-3\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/QuakerCity_5-26-13-3.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"620,340\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;6.3&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;MIKE COSTIC&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D7000&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1369457254&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;2012&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;18&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;400&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.000625&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Green Monster #19 Tim Arfons\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/QuakerCity_5-26-13-3-300x164.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/QuakerCity_5-26-13-3.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2994\" src=\"http:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/QuakerCity_5-26-13-3.jpg\" alt=\"Green Monster #19 Tim Arfons\" width=\"620\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/QuakerCity_5-26-13-3.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/QuakerCity_5-26-13-3-300x164.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/QuakerCity_5-26-13-3-600x329.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/QuakerCity_5-26-13-3-376x206.jpg 376w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Photos courtesy McCullough PR<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2995\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/green-monster-turbine-dragster\/tim-arfons-head-shot\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Tim-Arfons-Head-Shot.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"300,225\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;3.5&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Picasa&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon PowerShot A3100 IS&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1369830082&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;11.37&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;250&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0125&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Tim Arfons \" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Tim-Arfons-Head-Shot.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Tim-Arfons-Head-Shot.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2995   alignleft\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Tim-Arfons-Head-Shot.jpg\" alt=\"Tim Arfons \" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Tim-Arfons-Head-Shot.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Tim-Arfons-Head-Shot-80x60.jpg 80w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Tim Arfons, son of 3-time world land speed record holder Art Arfons, has painstakingly remade the famous Green Monster #19, a front-engine, jet turbine powered dragster, and uses it as a high-speed history lesson for today&#8217;s drag racing fans.<\/p>\n<p>The original jet-dragster debuted in the summer of 1971 at Rockingham, North Carolina and qualified for a few IHRA and AHRA events in the same year. The family-owned drag car was eventually retired and sold as Tim&#8217;s father transitioned into tractor pulling in the mid &#8217;70s, but has now been brought back to life and is just as much a show car as it is a proper dragster.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Tim&#8217;s born-again Green Monster is powered by a 1,325 horsepower General Electric turbine mated to an SCS gearbox, and has received some updates like a reverse gear and a drive-line brake for better launches off the line. It&#8217;ll get down the drag strip in just over 7 seconds at 192 MPH.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Check out the Green Monster #19&#8217;s test run during the Quaker City Nostalgia Classic:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"620\" height=\"465\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/7fiOTkAwXcY?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<div data-carousel-extra='{\"blog_id\":1,\"permalink\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.racingjunk.com\\\/news\\\/green-monster-turbine-dragster\\\/\"}' id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-2993 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a 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D7000&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1369457254&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;2012&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;18&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;400&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.000625&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Green Monster #19 \" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/QuakerCity_5-26-13-31-300x198.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/QuakerCity_5-26-13-31-1024x678.jpg\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/green-monster-turbine-dragster\/quakercity_5-26-13-8\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" 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