Only one Jaguar XJ13 was ever built, and it never actually raced in the race it was meant to race in. That race being Le Mans in the 1960s. Shame, because it looked – looks – fantastic.

Step forward Ecurie Ecosse – a storied name in motorsport with a couple of Le Mans wins to its name. The Scottish racing team has announced a limited run of a car it’s calling the LM69 – a homage to that famously handsome prototype Jag that famously never raced.

Keen motorsport fans will immediately spot the LM69 doesn’t look exactly like the XJ13. That’s because, says Ecurie Ecosse, “its bodywork has been developed into an all-new design that has its own purposeful beauty”. Mean looking thing, regardless of homage.

Should be mean full stop. BECAUSE NATURALLY ASPIRATED V12. Yes folks, the LM69 will feature either a 5.0/5.3-litre quad-cam V12 with an unspecified but likely sufficient amount of horsepower, or a bored out version of the same engine – this time up to 7.3-litres – with, again, an unspecified but likely ludicrous amount of power.

It’ll be fully road-legal, we’re informed, though we suspect the circuit will be its natural home. Tread carefully, mind – the brief was to build the thing using design and tech “that entered motorsport no later than early 1969”.

So the engine, for example, features distributors and mechanical fuel injection (though you can spec programmable injection and ignition). There’s no power steering, nor ABS, nor anything else that might stop you having a frightful moment. Just your wits, your eyes, your hands and your feet.

Ecurie Ecosse tell us the car is lighter than the original XJ13, gets wider wheels and tyres and “experimental aero devices”. Only 25 will be built, at a likely substantial cost. “Each one will be individually hand-built in the West Midlands by the best British craftsmen in their field,” we’re told.

You want, no?