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1966 Jaguar XJ13 SCF#001.
Jaguar only made one XJ13 which is in the museum in England. This car was made by the Sports Car Factory and they only made one.
1966 Jaguar XJ13 Recreation
The Sports Car Factory
Chassis No. 001
Jaguar made One 1966 XJ13 to run in the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1967. It has a V12 engine with 6 weber carburetors. Because the rules were changed and wouldn't allow an engine this large to run, it went into storage. Jaguar was introducing the V12 engine in the E type in 1971.
To promote that, they brought out the XJ13 and ran it around the track at high speed. On one of the runs at approximately 160 mph, a rear wheel failed and the car was wrecked and virtually demolished.
It again went into storage until Abby Panels, the company who furnished the original body panels for the car, offered to restore the car. The one and only original XJ13 is now in the Jaguar Heritage Trust Museum in Coventry, England.
There have been a handful of companies around the world that have built a few replicas.
This one and only body was built by The Sports Car Factory in Frederick, Maryland in 2004.
The car was totally assembled from 2008 to 2015 by Performance Classics of Cleves Ohio.
The current owner, James Strickland of Marietta Georgia, acquired the car in September of 2022 after chasing it for 15 years through 6 different owners.
As of September 2022, there are less than 20 replicas of the XJ13 in the world.
This XJ13 Recreation by The Sports Car Factory is their SCF Chassis No. 001.
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