Name that car

That's the magnificent Jaguar XJ-13.
There was a very nice replica at the Murwillumbah Festival of Speed this year.

Correct - had the great one off DOHC V12 that many have said should have also gone into mainstream jag sports cars instead of the one that ended up in them.

It's a magnificent car in the flesh.

Story goes that with the Leyland politics of the day, the Jag engineers designed a narrow engine bay in the XJ series to make sure the Rover V8 couldn't be shoehorned in.

So there's no way a DOHC V12 would fit :(

Regards
Max P

I hadn't heard that before. The engine was a race car engine with poor torque characteristics for a road car. Certainly the Rover V8 would fit into an XJ if required.

Interestingly XJ32 twin cam heads can be made to fit on the current V12 (with a lot of mucking around) and the engine is a gem - much better than the XJ13 engine.

Garry

About the time of the Rover SD1, the Jags of that era had the narrow engine bay. I'll have to flip through my Rover books to pin it down.

On reflection, the Rover V8 would fit the earlier XJ6s & XJ12s - there's certainly enough small block conversions running around isnt there.

Regards
Max P

The V12s with outboard carbies or EFI Pleniums etc are wider than the Rover V8 and the V12s were fitted to the XJs from the start right through to the XJ 40. The XJ40 had the V12 squeezed in later so you may be thinking of the XJ 40 - when it was designed there was no intention to put the V12 in it so was designed just for the 6 - however the series 3 V12 continued on with the XJ40 as demand was still there so Jaguar decided to squeeze the V12 in the XJ40.

I have even seen a Mk2 fitted with a V12 but then that engine bay was designed to take the Daimler V8 (would be a nice engine in a series landy I think).

jerryd yes i edited my post - very shortly after making it probably just after you hit reply !

What a gorgeous Jag - looks far ahead of its time. If I had the money I;d buy a car that looked liek that today !

Certainly is nice, thought to be worth 14.5 million british pounds :eek: It also held a speed record for more than 30 years.

It was written off at some point after a wheel collapsed and then rebuilt many years later. Here's a clip of it in action ;)

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_4E6qxkKuc]YouTube - Jaguar XJ13[/ame]

Obviously giving people a WHOLE car to identify is too easy.

What's THIS ?

http://redirectingat.com/?id=1044X50...D%26t%3D232063

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hmmm, maybe not on closer look.