
Obituary – Art Arfons
1926-2007 Art Arfons was famous for his ‘scrapyard approach’ to land-speed record-breaking. When others spent $250,000 on a car, he managed to beat their speeds by spending as little as…
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Sir, Boddy says that the Morris Minor i000 will have to be renamed following the fitting of a larger engine. Not so. For some time, B.M.C. have chosen to misname this vehicle—Nine-Fifty would have been more accurate. Whereas in the past, people like myself have felt that somewhere they have been cheated out of 52 c.c., perhaps they may now have an 86-c.c. bonus. Furthermore if the car is to continue looking exactly the same as the older model, I want the people that I overtake to think that the extra little hit of performance comes from some fiendish modification of my own.
Southport. PETER BROOKS. • 4s *