Guldstrand was one of the few remaining hot-rodders-turned-racers, whose exploits took him as far away as Le Mans and Indianapolis and as near as his first Guldstrand Motorsport shop in SoCal’s Thunder Alley. Guldstrand was an engineering major at UCLA but was a hot-rodder before and after. As he once said about his high school years in Southern California, “Either you were a hot-rodder or you were a candy ass!”