{"id":16359,"date":"2019-07-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/ecurie-ecosse-lm69-2\/"},"modified":"2020-10-07T08:31:38","modified_gmt":"2020-10-07T08:31:38","slug":"ecurie-ecosse-lm69-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/en\/ecurie-ecosse-lm69-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Ecurie Ecosse LM69"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The famous ‘what if…’ question is sometimes quite exciting. When Jaguar presented the XJ13 as a mid-engined sports car back in 1966, many car fans assumed that it would soon appear at races like the 24 Hours of Le Mans. The car was fitted with a five-liter V12 engine. But it was precisely this that ultimately led to the car never racing anywhere, as the regulations changed and also internal politics at Jaguar ensured that the brand withdraw from motorsports – at least as a factory team, as the E-Type Lightweight for private customers flushed some money into the coffers. The XJ13 was parked in a corner of the test department and almost forgotten.

It was only when a new V12 engine should arrive in series production for the sedans and the E-Type in the early 1970s that some people at Jaguar remembered the mid-engined prototype and brought it out to daylight again. For an advertising film, the XJ13 was to be shot together with the new cars on the British test site MIRA. During a high-speed trip, test driver Norman Dewis suffered the burst of a rear tire at about 220 kph, which led to a multiple rollover and the total loss of the unique car. Two years later, under the new company boss Lofty England, the car was reconstructed using the original wooden moulds. However, the newly built XJ13 has wider wheel arches, as the moulds for the original magnesium rims no longer existed and therefore wider wheels had to be fitted.<\/p>\n\n\n

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