Estate Sale Planned for Corvette Hall of Famer Dick Guldstrand

If you’re a fan of Dick Guldstrand, also known as “Mr. Corvette” to enthusiasts, then you might want to catch a plane to California later this week.

An estate sale for the auto racing legend is planned over the next two weekends in North Hollywood, CA. This weekend (September 10-11) will see Guldstrand’s household items sold while next weekend (September 17-18) will feature the sale of his racing and Corvette memorabilia.

No other details are available at the website for the sale, other than this short paragraph:

“We are planning a two part sale, one for his home content, the other for his memorabilia and are still preparing for this sale. Please check back for more details and photos.”

Sale information and more photos of Dick’s memorabilia can be seen at estatesaleangels.com.

Guldstrand passed away Sept. 3, 2015 at the age of 88.

In his early days, Dick’s parents wanted him to be a lawyer, but it was race cars that would eventually win the battle for his attention and he never looked back.

A famous alumni of California’s dirt tracks in the 50’s, Guldstrand’s racing exploits earned him a sponsorship from H.E. Baher Chevrolet dealer and a fuel injected Corvette Sting Ray Z06. From 1963 to 1965, he won three consecutive SCCA Pacific Coast Championships and in 1964 he was named the California Sports Car Club Driver of the Year.

In 1966, Guldstrand won the GT class at the Daytona 24 Hour race and in both 1966 and 1967, Dick piloted one of the Corvette Grand Sports at the 12 Hours of Sebring for Roger Penske. He also raced a 1967 L88 Corvette at the 24 Hours of Le Mans with Bob Bondurant.

Guldstrand also worked as an adviser on a number of Hollywood movies including 1967’s “Grand Prix” as well as working with Elvis on three different movies, “Viva Las Vegas,” “Speedway,” and “Spinout.”

In 1968, Guldstrand opened Guldstrand Engineering in Culver City, California and was instrumental in a number of racing programs including James Garner’s American International Racing team that ran three identical 1968 L88 Corvettes.

In his later years, Dick spent much time around the C4 Corvettes and his Guldstrand 1986 Corvette won all the events at the SCCA National Solo Championships that year. When the ZR-1 Corvette came out, Guldstrand used it as the basis for his custom built GS-90 which won accolades throughout the industry.

Guldstand was one of the first inductees to the National Corvette Museum’s Corvette Hall of Fame where he was inducted in 1999 with Corvette chief engineer Dave McLellan and former head of Chevrolet Jim Perkins.

“It’s like you’re cheating death,” he told an LA Times writer who accompanied him as a passenger on tortuous Mulholland Drive in 2006. “You push yourself to the point where you’re way beyond doing anything right if something should go wrong.”

“He may be 80,” the writer noted, “but waiting for the light to change he’s as restless as a teenager on a drag strip.”

Source:
estatesaleangels.com

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