In close to 70 years of building some of American motorsport’s most reliable and potent racing engines, Ed Pink has worked directly with racers, and racing people, ranging from the hot rodder-turned-Indy-speedster Jack McGrath, to Top Fuel pioneer Lou Baney, to the executives of Nissan trying to build an IndyCar engine, to modern Midget competitors at major events like the Chili Bowl Nationals, to building better Porsche endurance engines than Porsche’s people did. In short, Pink has done it all, for a stadium full of racers, when it comes to crafting horsepower. His 276-page hardcover biography (ISBN 9781736256169), written with the Hall of Fame motorsport journalist Bones Bourcier, is an outstanding narrative that makes clear that in business, and life, relationships are everything.

What makes this book so important is that repeatedly, Pink makes clear that success is predicated on personal honesty, superior effort in your work, and treating people with equal decency. There’s a huge amount of digestible technical knowledge shared here that gives the “how” behind Pink’s primary goal of making reliable power. It’s a great rip through rodding, racing, and engineering history. It should be an absolute must for any automotive library, especially for race fans. One added benefit we’d like to cite is the book’s large, almost tabloid-size hardcover format, with a text font that’s easy on aging eyes. A bravura performance by all involved.

– Jim Donnelly, Hemmings Muscle Machines, June 2024