Ed Pink
Fellow Hall of Fame Lou Baney gets the credit for hooking the talented Ed Pink into drag racing. After running a dry lakes car at El Mirage, became involved in drag racing in 1953. Ed has been responsible for many of the innovations in auto racing for over 30 years. One of his early successes was working with Ford on a new 427 CID/SOHC drag engine. It became the most powerful and winning engine in the top fuel dragster and funny car classes in the mid-60s. Prudhomme’s six-second suite of the 1967 Springnationals and Barry Seltzer’s 6.4 seconds funny car were the highlights of the project. Ed’s engines and components dominated funny car for years, with legends Prudhomme, Schumacher, McCulloch, and Beadle as customers. Pink’s Van Nuys shop is instrumental in developing power plants for in the indy/CART, USAC, and IMSA among others.