This is also a photo of the Green Monster Number 2  painted by Arfons’ mother to resemble the look of WW2 fighter airplanes. Photo taken by Howard Deshazo at the 1957 NHRA Nats. Complete info of the Arfon Racing Team here click!

Arfons Racing modern recreation of the legendary Green Monster #19 front-engined turbine drag race car cockpit ride along.    Click the link here

left to right: Howard L. Deshazo, Wally Parks and wife

To Go This Far Was Beyond Our Dreams
by: NHRA Advisor Howard Deshazo
QUOTE FROM AN ARTICLE I WAS PLEASED TO WRITE FOR HOT ROD MAGAZINE, JANUARY 1958:
” On November 5, 1956, at a meeting of the new Big Spring Lions Club, Capt. R. O. Franz, then stationed at Webb Air Force Base, moved that “A Drag Strip For Big Spring” be adopted as the club’s “project of the month.” From that point on, things happened fast. Less than 55 days later Big Spring had its first full-fledged drag event, backed by every civic organization in the city and sanctioned by NHRA. Continue reading →