Behold: the Ecurie Ecosse LM69 – a street legal race car built to 1969 FIA regulations. But why, for pity’s sake?
In 1956 and 1957, Ecurie Ecosse – a small Scottish racing team – won the coveted Le Mans title with customised Jaguar D-Types. Shut down in the 1970s, then revived in the 1980s, the company remains in operation today and now plans to revive the prototype Jaguar XJ13 – the car Jaguar envisioned for Le Mans before abandoning the entire project.
The LM69 is a vision of what might have happened had Jaguar updated the XJ13 to race at Le Mans in 1969 (hence the name). 25 of these 5.0l, V12 racers will be made – the exact number required to homologate the car for competition under 1969 rules.