Keith Black
Keith Black was an engine builder and team leader of history’s most successful single vehicle. Keith guided the Greer, Black & Prudhomme fuel dragster to victory in some 95% of its approximately 250 races from 1962 through 1964. The subsequent season, Black turned his attention to customer Roland Leong whose “Hawaiian” consequently became the first car to win NHRA’s Winternationals and US Nationals in the same year. But his greatest and most personally rewarding accomplishments were still to come. Among other things, Keith Black Racing Engines are credited with developing a safe “slipper” clutch and perfecting the aluminum 426 hemi block. “Reverend Black” also set a personal standard for professionalism and integrity that equaled the track record of Greer, Black & Prudhomme.