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The history of Jaguar
competition has been told in countless books. But in what was then
British Malaya, the Jaguar was immortalized when an alloy bodied XK120 set
a record from Mitchell Pier, Butterworth to Clifford Pier, Singapore, on
7th June 1955 that has never been broken. The event made the front-page in
the Straits Times. I would have the honor to be in the presence of three
of the people behind that record run: the man behind the idea, the driver
who undertook the challenge, and the person who succeeded in purchasing
the car eventually. The get-together was arranged by Lim Peng Han and
took place at the house of...

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