[markinnaples]

RIP Sir. The best part of that article was the following regarding the L88 '67 Corvette:

“Damn thing wouldn't go under 70 because of the gearing and it had loud pipes,” said Guldstrand. “So word got out and as we rolled on, more and more people were on the side of the road. When we got Chartres, there was a gendarme standing on a box. I could see his eyes open wide; we nearly blew him off his box, [and] he snapped off a [military] salute.”

While the car was fast, nearly 180 mph down the Mulsanne Straight, brakes -- by then discs and not drums like the 1960 cars -- were still an issue. Speaking of the Mulsanne, Guldstrand's first flat-out run down the famous straight, which was only interrupted in those days by what Bondurant had described to him as a “kink,” resulted in an interesting pit stop.

“At 170 mph, that kink was a corner. I slid the car through it and stopped at the pit. They said, ‘Why'd you come in?' and I told them because of the Mulsanne stain in my shorts.”

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