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Green Monster (automobile) B and later models had a Packard Merlin engine, much more powerful), P-39 Airacobra, P-38 Lightning, P-63 Kingcobra and others. Currently the Green Monster Number 5 is touring in the Midwest and California, and will be at the Bakersfield Hot Rod Reunion in October 2011. The Arfons brothers then split up, and each became interested in land speed record racing. The most famous "Green Monster" was powered by an ex-F-104 Starfighter General Electric J79 jet engine, producing static thrust with four-stage afterburner, which Arfons purchased from a scrap dealer for $600 and rebuilt himself, over the objections of General Electric