Talk:Ed Hugus

Letter

According to Doug Nye in the October 2020 issue of Motor Sport at https://www.motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article/october-2020/78/the-mystery-of-the-third-man-in-rindt-gregorys-le-mans-1965-win/ Years later, in May 2005, the elderly Ed Hugus wrote the letter below to French Le Mans fan Hubert Baradat who had requested his story of the race.

 DEAR HUBERT:                24 MAY 05 

THANK YOU FOR YOUR Kind Letter of May 19. 
It was very kind of you To Remember me. 
Some WRITERS Have Been telling me, That I HAVE DRIVEN MORE Times at Le MANS THAN ANY OTHER AMERICAN, I do NOT KNOW This To Be A FACT. 

Re-1965- As you know I had my own ENTRY for the 24Hrs For many YeARS. This Year I WAS TO DRIVE A FERRARI of Luigi CHINETTI In The Race. How Ever, The FACTORY did not Finish The CAR in Time, so Luigi Put me on As Reserve DRIVER ON The 250LM. 

 During the Night about 4 AM ?? MASTEN HAD gone out in the LM. A Lot of the FAMOUS Le MANS Pea Soup Fog Moved? and MASTEN With His BAD Eye Sight & Very Thick glasses Came ? Could Not See Well - RINDT HAD DISAPPEARED, No one Knew Where, So Luigi told Me to get my helmet on and Go 
So, I Finished THE LAST HOUR OR So of MASTENS PART.

Luigi told me many Times LATER THAT He HAD INFORMED THE PIT officials ABOUT This? 
How ever, as Luigi SaiD, May Be They were too Busy with A Wine Bottle Behind The Pits to do So. He WAS DISAPointed & So was I 
Say La Vie              Again Thank You
Hope This Helps.         Ed Hugus

With help from Google, I've trans-scripted the handwritten letter printed in the article, fixing some errors and making some guesses. Suggestions welcome. ~2025-31183-77 (talk) 23:11, 6 December 2025 (UTC)

Oh well, the letter was already featured at https://web.archive.org/web/20160304120009/http://www.jochen-rindt.at/Main/In_Memoriam/Curt_Lincoln/Pete_Kerr/Pete_english/body_ed_hugus.html ~2025-31183-77 (talk) 23:46, 6 December 2025 (UTC)