I saw Goldenrod back in 1965. I was living and going to school in Valinda, Calif. One of my room mates drove a tow truck for AAA, nights and weekends. One Saturday during a pretty bad storm in the fall, I was riding shotgun with him, and we got a call of a truck in a drainage ditch. When we got there it was a parts truck for the Summers Bros. We dragged the truck out of the ditch, but the front end was pretty screwed, so we dragged the truck, and it's cargo to their shop, and were given the fifty cent tour, and Goldenron was there, not fully skinned, but totally badass. He told us what it was for, and we gaucked for a few minutes and had to go.
Later that year he set that record.