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Ed Pink, Celebrated Engine Builder for 60-Plus Years, Has Died at 96

The legendary racing-engine builder they called the Old Master just kept on going, building his last engine at age 92.


By Brendan McAleerPublished: Apr 29, 2025

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Legendary engine builder Ed Pink has died at age 94.

Notable for his drag-racing V-8s, Pink also built motors for NASCAR, Can-Am, and IndyCar.

He was even the consultant Singer turned to for tuning the Porsche flat-six.

Watchmaking has long been the province of skilled artisans, experts with steady hands who can turn the intricate spinning of tiny cogs and springs into the exact measurement of time. Amateurs. Try getting a bunch of precision-milled metal to house controlled detonations at 9000 revolutions per minute, huffing nitromethane and hurling a spindly dragster down the quarter-mile, breaking into the six-second zone.

Such was the life's work of legendary engine builder Ed Pink, who has died at the age of 96.


"Life's work" can be taken literally here, as Pink tore apart the engine of his very first car pretty much as soon as he bought it, and built his last engine just a couple of years ago, at the age of 92. That motor was a Ford 427 SOHC "cammer" V-8, something that Pink built his career on back in the mid-1960s. It ended up getting shipped to Australia, as Ed Pink's engines have a globe-spanning reputation.


Born in Los Angeles in 1931, Pink turned 16 just as the explosion of postwar SoCal hot-rodding hit. One of his first jobs was pushing a broom at pioneering hot-rodder Lou Baney's shop, and he was soon out sending up dust contrails on California's dry lake beds along with the rest of the speed-obsessed lake runners.

After two years in the U.S. Army serving in the Korean War, Pink returned to Los Angeles and set up his own shop. He built his own dragster, and then started building engines for other racing teams. "Think Pink" became his slogan.

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