FOR THE next few years after Lt. Col. Goldie Gardner achieved 159mph in his streamlined MG EX135 in October 1946 on a stretch of road between Jabbeke and Ostend, British manufacturers used the same Belgian highway to set speed records.
Jaguar went there first in 1949 when the company’s then test driver, Ron ‘Soapy’ Sutton set a Belgian national speed record for production cars by achieving a two-way average of 132.596mph over
