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)
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Credit:
Editorial #:
125940700
Collection:
Archive Films: Editorial
Date created:
January 01, 1962
Upload date:
License type:
Rights-ready
Release info:
Not released.ÌýMore 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
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