Ed and Stephanie Beyer are your typical husband and wife…they love to travel to new places and see new faces. The only thing different about Ed and Steph is that when they travel, they have their race cars with them…and the new faces and places they see are racers at different tracks. They each have their own race car, but they both help each other out anytime the need arises.

A friend planted the racing seed in Ed many years back and the passion still roars today. “My old buddy got me hooked way back, many dollars ago,” Ed said jokingly. Ed got Stephanie started racing shortly after the two met…and as this racing fairytale goes, the two raced happily ever after…

Throughout the years Ed has wheeled a wide variety of race cars. He has had dragsters, door cars, and even altereds, each one nicer and faster than the last. Recently Ed acquired a 1980 Chevy Monza that he races in Pro and Super Pro. Steph races a 1927 Ford roadster in the Super Pro division. For a while the two even had matching his and hers cars, both with the same show quality paint job, only with different colors.

Ed’s 1980 Monza is powered by a 377 cubic inch small block Chevy producing 700 horsepower. The Monza travels the 1/8th mile in 5.6 seconds, while reaching a speed of 120 miles per hour, which allows Ed to run both Box and No Box classes. Steph’s Roadster has a 700 horsepower 431 cubic inch big block Chevy for power. Steph runs 5.3 seconds at speeds over 130 miles per hour in the 1/8th mile.

Both Ed and Steph have won their fair share of “Big Money” events and aim to win more of them in 2012. Steph, a jeweler by trade, is about as superstitious as they come and very ritualistic. Ed jokes, “she never says ‘at least this or that didn’t happen’ because inevitably, it will happen.” Ed, a business owner and former track promoter, is “a little less superstitious” he says with a smile. Some of the same superstitions helped Ed to win the 1991 Division 3 Super Pro Championship.

When the racing couple isn’t working or racing, they both enjoy traveling…going boating and four-wheeling with friends. The two tear it up trail riding their Polaris RZR through the trails on weekends during the off-season. During the warmer weekends, you can expect to see the two out on a lake with friends.

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