1959 Cooper Monaco

This is a photograph that I took at the Silverstone Historic Festival meeting in August 2001.

It's the 1959 Cooper T49 Monaco of Mark Clubb and has a 4-cylinder inline 1,990cc Coventry Climax engine. The name 'Monaco' was given to the car to mark Maurice Trintignant's win in the 1958 Monaco Grand Prix in a Cooper Climax T45. It was the successor to the smaller centre-seat Cooper T39 'Bobtail' that the company had produced since 1954. This car is chassis CM/6/59, the sixth of eight factory built cars and was sold to a customer in the USA. In 1979 the car was offered for sale and was bought by Stirling Moss and the following year he sold it as a restoration project to David Watson. David Watson commissioned Hall and Fowler to carry out the restoration and when it was finished he sold it to a US collector who kept the car until 1999 when it was acquired by Mark Clubb who kept the car until 2014.