Pink built his first fuel dragster in the early '50s and simultaneously ... Hemi customer engines for legions of Top Fuel and Funny Car racers. When Ford lost interest in 1969 in its Top Fuel ...

Drag racing’s first Funny Cars weren’t called “Funny Cars ... But durability would eventually become a problem. Ed Pink, who developed Ford SOHC engines for top fuel teams, struggled ...

The technology behind a both an NHRA Top Fuel dragster and a Funny Car is stunning, a true engineering feat of genius. However, the long, skinny power-producers, with the skinny front tires and ...

If that statement sounds debatable, consider his accomplishments since he delivered the last "Pink Elephant" to a Funny Car racer a quarter-century ago and dropped off drag racing's radar.

He loved drag racing and had a war chest ... hard and became the most feared Funny Car in the nation, built and driven (mostly) by Pat Foster with an Ed Pink elephant bellowing between his knees.

After success in Top Fuel Dragster, Pink would move to funny cars, where his engines helped Don Prudhomme, Raymond Beadle, and Shirley Muldowney win national championships. Pink’s eponymous ...

One states it was coined by an announcer who thought the drag-racing stock cars looked "funny." Another (backed by racing historian Leo Levine) gives credit to the head of Mercury's racing ...

It’s so adorable! Now, you won’t quite get Funny Car levels of power from the Jr Supra, but you can buy the thing for just $13,995 from Half Scale Dragsters in the US. Your engine then comes ...

The 2-time defending World Champion of Funny Car drag racing also jumped into the NHRA Funny Car season points lead just before he won the final elimination round at Bristol, TN. CBS 8's John ...

If Mike Neff wants to return to his true passion - crew-chiefing an elite dragster - he's going about ... in the National Hot Rod Association Funny Car division season standings.

NHRA Top Alcohol Dragster World Champion Julie Nataas will make her Nitro Funny Car debut at this weekend’s Thunder Valley Nationals in Bristol, Tennessee, June 6–8.

The Texas Motorplex in Ennis will host the Funny Car Chaos season opener for the third year in a row. Races get underway at the drag racing track March 16-18. A funny car has single piece of ...