Art Arfons with 'Green Monster' Land Speed Record car mb-code 00667941 'Mansion House Monitor'

'Mansion House Monitor'

A satire linking the cult of Vitruvius (which deduces laws of composition and canons of beauty from the measurements of ancient columns and statues) with the preposterous hairdos of the beau monde

and was stored in a London furniture depository from 1910 until exhumed in 1956

and the last Mini was made in 2000

Fireplace in one of the top rooms

Art Arfons with 'Green Monster' Land Speed Record car mb-code 00667941 'Mansion House Monitor'Art Arfons with 'Green Monster' Land Speed Record car, c1966. Arfons set three Land Speed Records in his jet powered 'Green Monster' car in the 1960s, the fastest being 576. 553 mph in 1965. In 1966, when attempting to regain the record from his great rival Craig Breedlove, a wheel came off the car when travelling at over 600 mph. Arfons survived without serious injury, but never regained the record.