Building the Legend

  On Wednesday, 5th June 2013 BBC Radio 4 broadcast a programme where Jonathan Glancey tells the story of one of the most talented but little known British designers, Malcolm Sayer. The following text described the content of the programme: "Sayer was responsible for the classic Jaguar cars, ... [More]

In my opinion? Yes. Let me explain ... How did the competition look? When I scan through reports, analyses and tests, Jaguar clearly had two cars in its sights - Ferrari's 330 P3 and Ford's GT40. In 1964 their eyes will have been on a 1966 Le Mans debut for a team of XJ13s. These cars would have rac... [More]

The quad-cam is pretty much complete! There are still details such as belts/pulleys/pipework to sort but these can wait until we are ready to fire up the engine for the first time. For now, the engine will be offered up to the monocoque so that engine mounting points and trailing arms etc can be fab... [More]

Starting to come together .... :)

So how do I go about making one? It seemed to me the best starting point would be to see if I could get my hands on an original. After a bit of research I found that, besides the bellhousing currently installed in Jaguar's rebuilt "original", only two others are known to have survived. One ended up ... [More]

I recently had to modify a pair of Jaguar rear driveshafts to suit my transaxle output shafts and thought I would post a video showing how I did so in the hope it may be of help to anyone else travelling down the same path. I spent a long time researching how others had achieved the same thing and w... [More]

Recently came across the excellent international Jaguar Magazine - highly recommended! Well into their 30th year, Jaguar Magazine is a world leader in independent Jaguar publications with so much in the magazine you won't find elsewhere and always presents a straight-forward and independent view of ... [More]

STOP PRESS .... Since posting this article I have discovered a source of original and genuine Avdel Rivets - as used by Jaguar in 1965 when building the XJ13. They aren't made anymore and are damn expensive (just over £1 EACH and I need thousands ....) BUT they are the genuine article and I do... [More]

From August 24th this year, Jaguar Enthusiasts were no longer able to view cars from Jaguar Heritage's collection of iconic cars in one place. It has been known for a number of years that the museum's days were numbered although it had been hoped that Jaguar would come to their senses and demonstrat... [More]

Third-scale model buck/former built using exactly the same data as the full-size buck for our 1966 Jaguar XJ13 recreation. [More]