MG speed record car, EX135

  The MG EX135 was part of a series of MG speed record racers campaigned from the 1930s till the 1950s. This car started out as a single seat circuit racer. With help from the company Reid Railton, a fully streamlined body was fabricated and with 49 year old Lieutenant Colonel Goldie Gardner at the wheel, the car achieved 187.62 mph on a German autobahn in November 1938.