This is really a follow up to my original story about Lt. Col. Goldie Gardner from nearly 2 years ago(!) When I posted the article, my buddy... <BR><BR>To read the rest of this blog entry from The Jalopy Journal, click here.
Great photos - especially that atmospheric ones of the car on a run. A friend and I ran two ex-factory MG Bonneville cars at four meetings on the salt in 2007 and 2008, the "X-15" ZTT wagon built by SO-CAL Speed Shop and "EXF", a turbocharged MGF which was painted in the same colours as Goldie's streamliner. They remain the only two ex-factory MG Bonneville cars in private hands - the rest are in museums. It was a real privilege to follow in Golidie's footsteps. MG has a long tradition of breaking records at Bonneville which sadly seems to have been forgotten. Thanks for reminding us. Regards Jon'.
Jon- That is amazing! How cool that you got to run those amazing cars in the place where it all happened...
Love it. Thanks JB. Slim Some other links. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/?p=7261 http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=499686&highlight=mg+at+bonneville http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=463154&highlight=mg+at+bonneville
Great! now we have more to talk about when we meet this year. I'm a big fan of MGs. (still have my '69 BGT that I bought when I was 16) If you have any pix I'd like to see them. Cheers! Tim
Small world Tim,as Jon is part of the RollingBones Race team,he is a partner on our xfgr. I will introduce you to him next week. Oh yea & he comes all the way from England to drive a flathead powered roadster,instead of his 225mph+ factory MG race car..............
sure wish Farmer would get the rest of those wonderful images online. I have a couple of great books from that period...
The amazing thing about Gardner was that he was in his mid 60s when he set the record,and probably would have set more if he hadn't had a cerebral hemorrhage.The sly dog was married to a woman half his age,too.Live fast,die old,and leave a young widow.Pretty cool....