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Brothers Walt and Art Arfons would set and break the Land Speed record three separate times from 1960-1965. They would achieve these records while refusing to set foot on the Salt Flats at the same time nor speaking to one another for years. By 1960, the brothers’ relationship had deteriorated so completely that they would work on their cars in separate garages on the same piece of property they inherited from their father. Today on Past Gas; How did two brothers, born into poverty, revolutionize jet-powered racing? Where did they get the engines? And why weren’t they speaking?

00:00 Intro
00:22 How These Feuding Brothers Traded 500 mph Records
01:53 Indeed
02:19 Host intros
03:58 Getting sunburnt in Wisconsin
04:42 Kristina's first car / Subaru's
05:58 Land speed racing at Bonneville
06:36 Background of the Arfons brothers
13:39 Allstate
14:21 Shopify
15:25 The Green Monster / drag racing
20:31 Where it went wrong
24:55 Indeed
26:35 Land speed record
31:31 Fun facts about Firestone
35:50 Bonneville, 1963
38:32 Bonneville, 1964
46:50 Bonneville, 1965
54:39 Legacy
56:11 Takeaways
57:31 Listener mail/Outro

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