The Cooper T51 was the first rear engined F1 racing car to win the F1 world constructors championship in 1959. It also gave Jack Brabham his first World Drivers Championship, thus earning itself a significant place in motor racing history. This T51 is the 1.5 ltr Coventry Climax version that raced mainly .....
Cooper T83, 1966 F3.
Cooper only made seven T83’s, and as far as the Cooper Club know only two survive. One in a collection in Switzerland and this one.
The Cooper Club know the full history of this car since it was built, and have confirmed that it’s chassis number 1 (original chassis plate .....
Chassis number: F2-9-58
Here we are proud to offer a truly historic British built Grand Prix car which not only won the most prized race on the Formula 1 calendar - the Monaco Grand Prix - but which was also owned and entered by the most famous motor racing private entrant, the legendary Rob Walker. .....
This Cooper Monaco sports-racing prototype that David Murray's Ecurie Ecosse organization entered and ran in the 1960 Le Mans 24-Hour race was their first rear-engined car. While only two coil-spring (as opposed to the earlier transverse leafspring) rear-suspended Type 57 'Mark II' Monaco models were .....
Chassis number FII/28/59 was entered into the Cooper Car Company records as 1959 Model 1500cc Mk1V Formula II sold in October 1959 to SA Power Tool and Equipment Co. fitted with a FPF Coventry Climax engine. Although the record shows shipment to South Africa the SA Power Tool and Equipment Company .....
Originally owned by Lance Reventlow, once described as, “..the richest baby in the world.” Reventlow was the son of Barbara Hutton (who at one time was married to Cary Grant) and heir to the Woolworth fortune. He was able to indulge his pleasures and enjoyed racing cars (even setting up the famous .....
