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Model Citizen
Join Date: May 2007
Location: The Voodoo Lounge
Posts: 19,485
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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.
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"I would be a tone-deaf heathen if I didn't call the engine astounding. If it had been invented solely to make noise, there would be shrines to it in Rome"
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