SIGNED BY ED PINK
The Remarkable Life and Times of Racing’s Most Versatile Engine Builder
Ed Pink’s gift for designing and building engines made him a motorsports icon. His handiwork has powered, among others, drag-racing superstars Don Prudhomme and Tom McEwen, Indy Car legends Al Unser and Tom Sneva, sports car heroes Bob Wollek and Brian Redman, and USAC champions Tony Stewart and Kasey Kahne.
But this is not a technical book. Pink began his long-awaited autobiography with one goal: that it would be more about people than engines.
Mission accomplished, yet again, for auto racing’s Old Master.
PINK PIG PORSCHE The Truffle Hunter of Zuffenhausen is a thorough photo narrative of the Pink Pig’s motorsports history which includes over 125 legendary images, many of which are exclusively from the Porsche Archive and from other unpublished photography sources.
Renowned Porsche historian and author Lee Raskin conveys a wonderful tale about the legendary Pink Pig Porsche and its unique livery — which continues to span beyond five decades.
Built especially for the 1971 Le Mans 24 Hour Race, Porsche AG created the special-bodied TYP 917/20-001 that would be uniquely painted pink along with thirteen German butcher-cut names covering its body — that instantly became known as the Le Mans Pink Pig by the motorsports media.
In recent years, tens of thousands of Porsche enthusiasts have visited the Porsche Museum at Stuttgart-Zufenhausen to meet this legendary 917/20 Pink Pig.
Today, Pink Pig memorabilia has become extremely popular — in the form of designer clothing, model racing cars, ‘Piggy’ banks, coffee and beer mugs, cookies, and dynamic Pink Pig posters and collectible art work.
Pehaps the most exciting Pink Pig news of the day is the acquisition and reinvention of the original Porky’s Pig by the renowned motorsports artist, Kelly Telfer…who has created a very unique Pink Pig display for worldwide Porsche-related events, such as the annual Porsche Club of America’s Porsche Parade, and Werks; as well as the famed Amelia Island event.
The complete motorsports story is included in PINK PIG PORSCHE: The Truffle Hunter of Zuffenhausen.
On 2 August 1990, Saddam Hussein’s armed forces invaded and occupied Kuwait. A swift international response followed, which, led by the United States and the United Kingdom, saw the formation of a coalition that formed the largest military alliance seen since the end of the Second World War.
Among the many RAF units deployed under Operation Granby, the codename given to the British military operations during the conflict, was 41 Squadron, with elements taken from 54 Squadron and 226 OCU, which was equipped with the ubiquitous Jaguar GR1 single-seat all-weather tactical strike and ground-attack fighter. In late 1990, the squadron duly despatched a total of twelve aircraft, which soon became known for their distinctive desert pink camouflage, and twenty-two pilots from their base at RAF Coltishall.
Initially conducting low-level strikes, for which the Jaguar Force had always been intended, over the weeks that followed 41 Squadron switched to more unusual medium-level missions. In total, the men and machines of 41 Squadron conducted a total of 617 sorties during Operation Granby.
To complete this remarkable description of 41 Squadron’s part in the liberation of Kuwait, the author has interviewed a number of these pilots. As well as these veterans’ personal reflections, Danny Burt also explores the Jaguars’ record on air-to-ground combat and its performance in theatre, the various upgrades the type receive, and the unique nose art that each aircraft carried. Many of the pictures in this highly illustrated publication have never been published before.
The story is completed by the recovery by the author of one of the Jaguar GR1s flown in the Gulf War Rescued from an Army range in South Wales, the aircraft was moved to RAF Coningsby where its restoration, including the return of its Operation Granby camouflage, is underway.
The time has come to chronicle a photo archival book of drag boats of the 1960s aptly named “The Rebel Decade.” This was the birth of “whip-start” dragsters which led to today’s organized drag boat racing. Recognized and featured are those racing legends like Larry Schwabenland, Ray Caselli, Gary Gabelich, Dwight Bale, hot boat builders like Rich Hallett, “Sanger Jack” Davidson, Rudy Raymos, engine builders Keith Black, Dave Zeuschel, Ed Pink, Louis Unser and many others who reigned in their heyday. These mavericks dared to mix unleashed speed-on-the-water with smoke and fire, thunderous nitro or powerful blown gas while avoiding the moment when their boat could take a deadly spin, nose dive or flight—many failed. Drag Boats of the 1960s Photo Archive is a team effort by many of those who were there; only they could have created this riveting history on the fastest, most exciting and dangerous era in water sports.
THE TIME MACHINES
Originally produced by Fram Corp. 30min
This film is shot with very advanced camera angles and techniques not usually seen in documentaries of this era– in-car cameras and slow-motion photography, incredible!
Labor day Indianapolis Raceway Park 1969
This film starts with an interview with Charley Alan and also Dick Landy super stock class, Don Prudhomme, Don Garlets.
Cars seen in first segment are Ron Ellis, Bounty Hunter of Connie Kalitta-70 Mustang, Mickey Thompson’s Mach 1, Big John Mazmanian.
Ed Pink plugs Fram Filter.
Unbelievable footage of 2 rails burning out, shot at 1000 frames per second. You can see every pulse of the engine as it strains to launch the car.
Ronny Sox in a Barracuda wins when Dave Renn blows a drive shaft.
Also a segment on Super eliminators and Gassers.
VAROOM 30min
The Original sound track of this film makes it a time capsule of 70’s Drag racing, when it was a family sport.
Great interview with Shirley Muldowney (The boys were all with me until I started winning.)
Don Garlits (I am a target like the gun fighters of the old west.) Don speaks of the origins of drag racing back on old abandoned airport runways. This is followed by a great segment showing ’50s drag racing old cars and hotrods of the era, complete with really corny music! Jet car runs 280mph.
Don Schumacher, Soapy Sales, Rat Trap.
Shot at the Pomona Winter National. This films closes with one of the most outrageous slow motion segments I have seen. Shot on 16mm, the slow motion on this film is excellent!! Not like the video slow-mo you see today.
The last Drags at LACR/ Dry Lakes 25min
A mini documentary about the last drag race at Los Angeles County Raceway. Also in this video is an outing with the boys from the Los Angeles Shelby Club as they go out to the dry Lakes to see what it’s all about–great footage of high-speed runs.
Get behind the wheel of the greatest sports cars of all time. Car enthusiast Nick Mason, of Pink Floyd fame, has opened his garage to test driver Mark Hales and together they indulge in the ultimate driving experience. More than 400 photos capture Hales as he pushes the limits of 24 amazing road machines, and Mason provides a brief account of each car’s history along with technical details and personal anecdotes. Coupled with the roar of the engines-recorded on the bonus CD-this package will unleash every car fanatic’s passion for speed.
Los Angeles transportation’s epic scale–its iconic freeways, Union Station, Los Angeles International Airport and the giant ports of its shores–has obscured many offbeat transit stories of moxie and eccentricity. Triumphs such as the Vincent Thomas Bridge and Mac Barnes’s Ground Link buspool have existed alongside such flops as the Santa Monica Freeway Diamond Lane and the Oxnard-Los Angeles Caltrain commuter rail. The City of Angels lacks a propeller-driven monorail and a freeway in the paved bed of the Los Angeles River, but not for a lack of public promoters. Horace Dobbins built the elevated California Cycleway in Pasadena, and Mike Kadletz deployed the Pink Buses for Orange County kids hitchhiking to the beach. Join Charles P. Hobbs as he recalls these and other lost episodes of LA-area transportation lore.
