This car competed in the Bonhams
Drum Brake Sports Cars Race at the Gold Cup meeting at Oulton Park in August
2003.
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It's Dutchman Adrian van der
Kroft's 1956 Cooper T39 Bobtail with a 1,460cc Coventry Claimax engine, and it
was named the 'Bobtail' because of the way the tail of the car was cut off just
behind the rear wheels. This was found to make it more aerodynamically
effective, but John Cooper tried to hide this fact by claiming it had been
shortened so that it would fit inside the works transporter. It had the race number
10 in the programme of the event. The red number 23 car is the 1953 Tojeiro Bristol of Nick Wigley.
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