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Really happy with these Coventry-made custom tera conrods

Swales is CEO of Coventry-based Building The Legend, from which he now offers the so-called 1966 Le Mans Prototype and E-Type Reimagined models, powered by his version of the lost Jaguar V12, known as the Tera.

Harry Advic of ABODE2 magazine takes a spin in a re-imagined V12 Jaguar E-Type created by Building The Legend CEO & Founder, Neville Swales

Let us upgrade your classic to electric windows

Building The Legend is proud to offer our skills and experience to project-manage and complete your dream project – from concept to completion – from design to a beautiful finished, unique, type-approved and road-legal car. Whether that is a single car or one of many. Our skill-set and local access to a range of world-class automotive design, assembly and technology experts gives us the ability to turn your dreams to reality.

Good to see this car has resurfaced after a rebuild by the owners of the (formerly) discredited company JD Classics.

In Part Two we looked at the development of the quad-cam V12 – we now look at how this evolved into the first single cam V12 engine. Much has already been published elsewhere – not least of all by renowned authors Skilleter, Whyte, Porter, Viart/Cognet et al. I hope to add to this body of knowledge with aspects that may not have been documented elsewhere.

In Part 1 we looked at the origins of the V12 – in Part 2 we look at the development of the V12 in a little more detail.

For 25 years, between 1971 and 1996, Jaguar’s smooth and refined V12 power unit powered the Series 3 E-Type as well as a range of luxury saloons.

(The following findings are very much a “work in progress” and work is continuing in trying to fill the gaps – all contributions gratefully received!)