IV, misc. p. 84 "gathering pinks as it came"

[Mark Kohut]

Pinks refers to the color of the title of cars in California and this phrase refers to a drag racer winning the cars of losers.....

"Pinks is a franchise series of television programs on Speed Channel  with the spinoff Pinks: All Out following in 2006. The name of the show, and the tagline "Lose the race - lose your ride", refer to common slang of pink slips representing a vehicle's title document recording ownership, and the derivative street-racing phrase, "racing for pinks," meaning a race in which the winner earns the loser's car. (In California, until recently, the vehicle title was on a pink slip of paper.)"