The instrumentation is period correct. The reported comment will be shortly removed from Zigwheels &,Help us understand you better, fill Survey today,Get Best Price, Instant Payment & Free RC Transfer.You will receive all the communications on :rvmp_story,rvmp_similar_cars_slider,rvmp_forum_ask_car_owner,rvmp_faq_widget,rvmp_qna,Rare, Beautiful And Expensive: Just The Way We Like Our Jags,Bask in the magnificence of the Jaguar XJ13,Your comment should contain at least 5 characters,I wish to report this Comment because it is,Thank you! September 18, 2020 admin Cars 0. Built as a potential Le Mans contender, it never competed in any race. Many of the lessons learned in the development of the racing engine were used in Jaguar’s production V12 engine which would be produced for twenty-five years from 1971 to 1996.There is, however, a twist in the tale of the XJ13. Very few reproductions of the XJ13 exist and very rarely do they come up for sale. 1966 Jaguar XJ13 The Jaguar XJ13 was a prototype racing car developed by Jaguar to challenge at Le Mans in the mid-1960s.

That car was originally designed to return Jaguar to their glory days at Le Mans and take on the might of Ford and Ferrari. The car’s designer was another famous British aerodynamicist, Malcolm Sayer. The resulting crash rendered the XJ13 useless. The intent to race always lurked in the background — or even the foreground. The words Jaguar, Jaguar XJ13, XJ13 are used in a historical/descriptive context and in no way suggest our recreations/replicas are approved by Jaguar. The tire disintegrated and took the wheel with it.

Raymond ‘Lofty’ England recreated the XJ13.

Sadly, Jaguar’s car never turned a wheel in anger.They are unique recreations making reference to painstakingly-researched and original data. With a then little-known David Hobbs driving, the prototype set an unofficial UK closed circuit lap record that stood for 32 years.But with another driver, and worn tires, that only prototype crashed heavily at the MIRA test track in early 1971, and was virtually destroyed.
It wasn’t an exact reproduction, and the Ford GT40 had already surfaced. Jaguar XJ13. RCR XJ13 Possibly the rarest Jaguar, the XJ13 was designed to win the 24-hour race at Le Mans.
That also sums up the shape of the Jaguar’s stunning yet solitary XJ13, the race car that never was. It was a dual overhead cam V12, developed specifically for racing. All they needed for it was a car. Conceived as a V12-powered racer in the mid ’60s, the XJ13 was bound to be Jaguar’s Le Mans threat for the likes of Ford and Ferrari. In 1964, Jaguar’s engineers were betting big on a new engine developed after nearly a decade of toil. Nor should anyone doubt the potential of its unique 502 bhp, 5 litre V12 engine.During early testing in 1967, it lapped the MIRA test track at over 161 mph (259 km/h), establishing a lap record in the hands of racing driver David Hobbs, despite the car still being in the development stages. Automotive engineer William Haynes had a mid-engined layout in mind.

Few XJ13’s were …

Transported back to the Jaguar factory, it sat, unloved, and forgotten, for years.The original prototype was eventually restored, but never raced. But a USD 7 million bid was turned down for the XJ13 which stands at the British Motor Museum. But fate had other plans for the XJ13.

The XJ13 was born.We know that Jaguar’s creation was a fast car. Built using Jaguar's original plans (supplied by Jaguar) by John Wilson (Vehicle Engineer in the Canberra/Sydney region) and first road registered in the ACT in 1986. There’s only one Jaguar XJ13 in the world and you’re looking at it!