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  1. 11-25-2022, 09:58 AM #1
    Chuck Miller
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    Unhappy The end of an era .... Ed Pink's shop get's displaced...

    This is a bit personal for me.....
    I lived a half mile from this shop. The shop was/is on Raymer St. a few hundred feet from Van Nuys Blvd. ground zero for 'the golden years' of street racing.... Raymer St. is adjacent to East/West railroad tracks and straight for about 1/2 mile... Guess where some of us did our street racing at night ?.... Right in front of Ed's shop.....

    Engine building from flatheads and Hemis, to 962's and Singers......

    .... and so it goes

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dp6C4D_E5Y
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  2. 11-25-2022, 12:19 PM #2
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    Wow, one of the greatest racing engine builders of all times
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    I dreamed as a teenager of owing an Ed Pink-built blown hemi engine. I think I even still have the Ed Pink catalog from the day. What a great video, especially the long pause and sentiment at the very end of the video.
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  4. 11-26-2022, 03:16 AM #4
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    Thanks for sharing ... 40 minutes of video worth watching ...
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    Chuck, thanks for sharing this wonderful film, at least now the history is preserved. Ed, what a fantastic character. Hope the legacy continues with a new shop. Legend.
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  6. 11-27-2022, 04:57 AM #6
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    Chuck, thank you too for sharing this...simply wonderful. Such a shame to get displaced for a 'bus stop' compounded by the future of transportation that will be powered by soulless 'motors' with neither the soul and character of every engine that has gone through Ed's shop.
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    Just terrible. Bulldozed for a bus stop for the Olympics? How does that even happen? Did someone buy up that plot of land or did the city take it from them for the bus stop? There has to be a backstory here, and knowing the Olympic Committee, it has to be a dirty one. Where's he moving to, btw?
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    I actually visited Ed Pink's today to do some power runs on their chassis dyno. They will likely relocate to Santa Clarita or nearby in the valley. They have mixed feelings on the situation - saying goodbye to the history is hard, but they are also looking forward to a clean slate where they can layout a modern and more efficient shop. I have to say that if you are in SoCal - you need to check this place out before they move. So much history in there. Cool to see 917 motors, Singer motors, Emory motors and much more. Here are just a few pics I took at the shop:

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    A few more - one of the guys worked at Andial for many years before Pink's - love his license frame.

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  10. 01-27-2023, 02:04 PM #10
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    Great posts Bill ...Congrats on the 2.5 !!!!
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