In this video - The Ed Pink Story Old Master:
Hot rodders didn't assemble engines—you know, put them back together as the manufacturer intended—your friendly car dealer did that. Hot rodders built engines. That bunch of upstarts not only didn't follow the instructions, they had the audacity to improve Detroit's designs by miles miles per hour that is!
Flat-out miles per hour was not just confined to land speed racing, but at the newly introduced quarter-mile track in Santa Ana called a dragstrip. As drag racing progressed, sheer brutal horsepower powered the sport.
That's when the heavy hitters wanted a Black or Pink engine—and we're not talkin' color here! Black was the late Keith Black of the Greer-Black-Prudhomme dragster fame, and Pink is Ed Pink.