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    Stirling Speaks – Bonneville

    Sir Stirling Moss relives the heat, the salt and the challenge of MG’s 1957 assault on the Bonneville Salt Flats.

    Sir Stirling Moss

    I went to the Salt Flats at Bonneville in Utah for the first time in 1957. John Thornley from MG invited me to come and make an attempt on the International Class F record. MG had been there in 1954 when one of the MGA prototypes had been fitted with a Goldie Gardner streamlined body, and had set records in several categories. This car, EX.179, had managed 120.74 mph for 12 hours and reached 153.69 mph for 10 miles.

    Goldie Gardner had broken many records both before and

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