Art Arfons is an American original Without a high school diploma engineers or even blueprints this small town Midwestern prodigy of practical mechanics designed built drove and broke land speed records in a series of supercharged automobiles he dubbed The Green Monster In this comingofage story for the senior set director David Finn offers an unvarnished portrait of a flinty singleminded slyly charming obsessive man literally driven to continue his race against time long after he has established himself as a living legend