Las Vegas Drags

Spectators standing, leaning against chain link fence / red Ford station wagon (Ellico Ford Racing Team of Alameda, California) driving away from camera, dusty desert road / front engine-mounted Top Fuel dragster drag racing at Henderson International Raceway in desert / two gasser jalopy dragsters racing / driver ART ARFONS (Arthur Arfons) seated in cockpit of Cyclops Green Monster jet drag, buckling seat belt / Art Arfons and Green Monster Cyclops jet dragster being towed / Art Arfons piloting, racing Green Monster Cyclops jet drag (the engine is a scrapped USAF F104 J79 Starfighter jet engine, producing 17,500 HP); drag parachute deploys at end of desert drag strip / crew tugging deployed parachute following jet drag exhibition; Art Arfons watching, working, wearing white t-shirt / driver LEE PENDLETON wearing white jumpsuit, donning white racing helmet, squeezing into cockpit of curious winged silver gasser dragster outfitted with plane wings / strange winged silver gasser being pushed by Ford pickup truck to starting line; Lee Pendleton driving winged dragster / dragster pulling to starting line; winged dragster racing from starting position, burning rubber; winged dragster racing; drag parachute slowing down dragster / man wearing white t-shirt, khaki pants, straw hat while standing on starting line, waving green flag, two cars (sports car and jalopy) drag racing on rubber-streaked drag strip / stock cars drag racing on paved drag strip in desert / man holding red flag, then waving green flag, open seat jalopy racing motorcycle. Las Vegas Drags on January 01, 1962 in Las Vegas, Nevada (Footage by Getty Images)
Spectators standing, leaning against chain link fence / red Ford station wagon (Ellico Ford Racing Team of Alameda, California) driving away from camera, dusty desert road / front engine-mounted Top Fuel dragster drag racing at Henderson International Raceway in desert / two gasser jalopy dragsters racing / driver ART ARFONS (Arthur Arfons) seated in cockpit of Cyclops Green Monster jet drag, buckling seat belt / Art Arfons and Green Monster Cyclops jet dragster being towed / Art Arfons piloting, racing Green Monster Cyclops jet drag (the engine is a scrapped USAF F104 J79 Starfighter jet engine, producing 17,500 HP); drag parachute deploys at end of desert drag strip / crew tugging deployed parachute following jet drag exhibition; Art Arfons watching, working, wearing white t-shirt / driver LEE PENDLETON wearing white jumpsuit, donning white racing helmet, squeezing into cockpit of curious winged silver gasser dragster outfitted with plane wings / strange winged silver gasser being pushed by Ford pickup truck to starting line; Lee Pendleton driving winged dragster / dragster pulling to starting line; winged dragster racing from starting position, burning rubber; winged dragster racing; drag parachute slowing down dragster / man wearing white t-shirt, khaki pants, straw hat while standing on starting line, waving green flag, two cars (sports car and jalopy) drag racing on rubber-streaked drag strip / stock cars drag racing on paved drag strip in desert / man holding red flag, then waving green flag, open seat jalopy racing motorcycle. Las Vegas Drags on January 01, 1962 in Las Vegas, Nevada (Footage by Getty Images)
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Editorial #:
125940700
Collection:
Archive Films: Editorial
Date created:
January 01, 1962
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License type:
Rights-ready
Release info:
Not released. More information
Clip length:
00:04:09:20
Location:
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
Mastered to:
QuickTime 8-bit Photo-JPEG SD 720x576 25p
Originally shot on:
16mm OCN 24p
Source:
Archive Films Editorial
Object name:
16657_505515_3-H.264.mov