Saw Arfons and his Green Monster at “The Bend”, Great Bend, Kansas. They used to have the summer nationals there. Don Garlits also. Arfons’ runs were mostly exhibitions. no body else had a jet car.
Now that’s old school.
The Arfons bros were out of Akron where I lived at the time.
They were “out of the box” thinkers for sure.
Both lived to quite old age also, despite all the risks they took.
Saw them here in N.J. at Island Dragway. Like you said exhibition only but quite a sight back then. Backyard mechanics at their best.Saw Garlits be the first one to go 200mph here in I think 1964. He match raced in this area all of the time back when they did that stuff.