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You’re looking at the most celebrated slingshot dragster of all time: Kent Fuller built the chassis; Ed Pink built the winning engine for Louie Senter (left in front of Louie’s Ansens Automotive Engineering storefront) in 1962. Ed (right) and Louie won the AHRA Winter Championship at Fontana Drag City in the Ansen-Pink dragster with Rod Stuckey driving to an e.t. of 8.51 at 188.66 mph in the quarter-mile. Then Senter sold the car in 1964 to Tom Greer and the other fabled engine builder, Keith Black. An up-and-coming driver by the name of Don Prudhomme did the driving. Ed worked for Ansen for a short time after coming home from the Korean War. Ansen hadn’t gotten into manufacturing yet; Ansen was a speed shop when the photo was taken, according to Pink.