Ed Pink Racing link

[21blackjack JR]

My pops wanted me to post this link. *https://youtu.be/7dp6C4D_E5Y


These guys are arguably the best in the business, the company has been around for a LONG time. They have been dyno-ing my engines for awhile. The dept of knowledge and experience is amazing.*


They are not just assemblers like many other shops.


They have a great group of very talented guys.


James is the GM now and has serious deep skills of many things engineering related and mechanical, one bad ass. He replaced Frank Honsowetz who retired a little over a year ago, Frank previously was the National manager of Nissan Motorsports (enough said about his skills)!


Anybody looking for a stock to a crazy engine build these are the go to guys. They are doing the engines for the Singer cars and literally any other engine out there, funny cars, boats, aircraft, you name it.


Anyway dad just wanted me to share this link.


Alain

[pwd72s]

Fantastic! Thank you very much...

[Bob Kontak]

Enjoyed that. Tell your Dad thanks!

I remember in the early 70's working as a machinist near Oil City, PA while in high school, one of the older guys (car nut) at the shop had stickers on his tool box.

One was Ed Pink and the other was Kieth Black. The names just stuck in my memory.

I swear the Ed Pink sticker said Ed Pink Racing Transmissions. Clearly he is more into engines but maybe your Dad knows if he did transmissions also? Suspect HD drag racing setups.

[javadog]

Ed Pink Racing Engines…

[CurtEgerer]

Amazing video. Ed Pink is known to almost everyone only for drag racing. They really fly under the radar in the other forms of motorsport but I've seen small stickers and other references on many road racing cars over the years. Thanks for posting that.

[javadog]

People know his name because he and Keith Black were the pioneers that really pushed drag racing to the next level. They were the big dogs in top fuel and funny car.

What a lot of people don’t know is that they had a lot of involvement with Porsche engines, particularly the 962 era.

Really cool video. I didn’t realize that Pat Foster worked for him as a fabricator. I only knew of him as a funny car driver. He was a pretty good driver, I remember him driving the Vega funny cars for Barry Setzer. Early in the video there’s a picture visible on the wall of one of the Setzer cars.

Cool stuff.

[javadog]

It’s unbelievable that they’re turning that area into a bus stop for a one time use in the Olympic games, years down the road.

What a waste. I’m shocked that they couldn’t find someplace else to do that.

[astrochex]

Originally Posted by javadog

It’s unbelievable that they’re turning that area into a bus stop for a one time use in the Olympic games, years down the road.

What a waste. I’m shocked that they couldn’t find someplace else to do that.

Its California, enough said. I’m bummed that I was too young to know and appreciate what was in my backyard when I lived in Van Nuys. What a legend that man is.

[Danimal16]

Originally Posted by astrochex

Its California, enough said. I’m bummed that I was too young to know and appreciate what was in my backyard when I lived in Van Nuys. What a legend that man is.

It was a wonderful time to grow up, Pink's, Art Carr, Gurney, Keith Black. We used to ride our bikes to Gurney's place in Santa Ana (right down the street from where my Mom worked), and would just go visit all the other greats that were here in SoCal in the late 60s and 70s. We were snot nosed teenagers that had a hard time affording our own hot rods, let alone to be able to afford the type of gear that Ed Pink was putting out. All those Giants of motor racing treated us like royalty, they were the nicest guys. It was a grand time to grow up in Orange County and SoCal, and I am immensely grateful.

That video is EPIC! It reflects the character of that generation and the "car culture" of that time. Thanks so much for posting it.

[pwd72s]

All of motorsports owes a lot to the early days of USA hot rodding...

[Jeff Hail]

Originally Posted by javadog

It’s unbelievable that they’re turning that area into a bus stop for a one time use in the Olympic games, years down the road.

What a waste. I’m shocked that they couldn’t find someplace else to do that.

I grew up in Van Nuys. Familiar with most of the players in drag racing, road racing and motorcycles. The list is endless and many are still in business. Great place to grow up in the late 60's and 70's. I could walk most places in Van Nuys from where I lived by Valley College.

Regarding Ed Pink. Ed did my 273 Chrysler in 1982. It was a collaboration between Direct Connection parts, Ed, Martin Davidson, Dons machine shop on Woodley Ave. Dave Kemblowski at the Balance Shop, Ken Sperling did my heads (Air Flow Research) Hank The Crank, Cannon Engineering did my driveshaft, Hoopers rear end service and Summers Brothers. Thats just about everyone in a twenty mile radius. Oh wait forgot A1 Transmissins on Topanga. I used to get tires from some of the racers who had space behind Eds shop. Seriously free tires, brand new because somebody didn't like the compounds. Mind you they had inverted dimples not tread.

Today nobody is missing a thing in Van Nuys.

The fact that the city is turning that area of Raymer into a park and ride campus is crazy stupd. Its restricted in roads in and out of that area because its hedged by railroad track property to the north and cess pool Sherman Way to the south. Anyone going to attend the Olympics is not going to be parking in Van Nuys for a Los Angeles city venue and taking a bus or train down Van Nuys Blvd to the Colliseum.

Metro rail went for the cash/land grab along Van Nuys Boulevard in time for 2028 Olympics because they could. The Olympics will subsidize the project and it will be another public transportation disaster. Eminent domain everyone out and wait a few years. It will end up another swap meet/ homelesss encampment. It always does. It is now.

Just look at Laurel Canyon (Plaza) where the old Lamp Lighter, Tandy Leather and Golds Gym used to be (Sylvan). Empty b.s. and promises by Los Angles there all the way back to the late 1980's. I know people that own or owned commercial property at that area and they all were strong armed by the city. All those buildings are still boarded up and vacant since. Two investor groups defaulted on notes since then. The Daily News gets cinematic and calls Laurel and Victory "the intersection of broken promises". Now the area above Victory where (Bellinghmm) JC Penny was, The Gap , Sears, Sears Auto Center, Schrabers Cafeteria, The Hot food place and adjacent strip mall north of Sears is a mostly a boarded up ghost town. VIP Show Girls and Brads Bail Bonds seem to have settled in ok. Par for the course.

Nobody wants to go to Van Nuys anymore.

[pwd72s]

Jeff...wow. Another sad tale...

[Shaun @ Tru6]

[herr_oberst]

I watched the Ed Pink doc the other day, and my first thought after the final credits was that it would sure be cool if a collaboration of current and past racers and industry types could somehow gather resources and find and move Ed to a great new facility and do it quickly. The John Forces and the Don Schumachers and Penskes and Andretti's and companies like Edelbrock and Holley and Jegs and Summit. Get a magazine like Hot Rod or Car and Driver to do a big writeup of the proceedings.

There were groups of guys that got together in the last few years to rebuild the famous hot rods of Tom Medley and Gray Baskerville of Hot Rod magazine fame; I would hope that racers who became successful maybe in part because of people like EP could reciprocate a little in a like fashion for a guy in need; (but maybe he's already got everything under control and I need to get off my high horse).

Sidebar; I grew up when Mr. Pink and Mr. Black were the names I knew in racing engines.
Along with Jenkins and Nicholson and Martin and Landy and Bo Laws and Jack Rousch and on and on...

Andial was a decade or two later and a whole 'nother evolution of my interests...and then Singer comes along and the circle is joined.

[racing97]

EPE has already sourced a new building in the Valencia/Santa Clarita area, Ed has been in retirement for 10 years at least now and has a hobby shop in Newhall.

[sc_rufctr]

That's one very cool video. Thanks for posting... (Did anyone else see the girl yawning? )

[21blackjack JR]

Originally Posted by pwd72s

Fantastic! Thank you very much...

Your very welcome. Alain

[21blackjack JR]

Originally Posted by Bob Kontak

Enjoyed that. Tell your Dad thanks!

I remember in the early 70's working as a machinist near Oil City, PA while in high school, one of the older guys (car nut) at the shop had stickers on his tool box.

One was Ed Pink and the other was Kieth Black. The names just stuck in my memory.

I swear the Ed Pink sticker said Ed Pink Racing Transmissions. Clearly he is more into engines but maybe your Dad knows if he did transmissions also? Suspect HD drag racing setups.

Thanks Bob, I did share your thanks. Alain

[21blackjack JR]

Originally Posted by CurtEgerer

Amazing video. Ed Pink is known to almost everyone only for drag racing. They really fly under the radar in the other forms of motorsport but I've seen small stickers and other references on many road racing cars over the years. Thanks for posting that.

Your welcome Curt, amazing group of guys. Alain