Cooper T53

This car competed in the HGPCA Pre-66 Grand Prix Cars Race at the SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in September 2005.

It's the 1961 Cooper T53 of Ted Rollason and according to the programme of the event had a 2,700cc engine. It is apparently chassis F1-1-61, a car that was originally campaigned by the Yeoman Credit Racing team in the 1961 season, driven by John Surtees and Roy Salvadori. After taking part in the 1961-62 South African Springbok series the car was sold to a driver from Rhodesia, given an Alfa Romeo engine and was seen sporadically in Rhodesia and South Africa until 1967 when it was destroyed in a crash at Kyalami while being driven by Rhodesian driver John Coetzer. The remains of the car were acquired by Ivan Glasby and eventually sold to John Harper in the UK who rebuilt the car with a new frame, completing the task in 1999. Ted Rollason took over the car in 2001, competing with it for several years before selling it to German Wulf Goetze in 2014.

I've featured the Cooper T53 three times previously, most recently on 30 January 2019.