Saturday, October 25, 2025

Armored Speed

 


6 comments:

  1. Looks like an old MatchBox car that I had.

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  2. Jaguar xj 13
    el néné.........

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  3. Jaguar XJ13, constructed like an airplane with riveted aluminium panels and using a unique 5.0 V12 DOHC engine. Only one was built in the '60s and three or four replicas have been made using XJ12 engines. Unfortunately it was never raced.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntXdeRbpyp8
    Al_in_Ottawa

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  4. Nice nice nice. Beautiful hand forming, talk about low drag! A thing of beauty. Love a look at the bare chassis, probably chrome moly tubing, definitely looks like some skilled aircraft makers where involved in that.

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  5. Back in the 1980's I worked with a pleasant young lady who eventually went on to marry a bloke who makes exotic car replicas. He made one of these and I got to see it during a visit. I didn't like the large diameter steering wheel (which was as it was) but the shape was beautiful. I don't think he let anyone drive it, well not me anyway.

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