1959 Cooper T51

This is a photograph that I took in the paddock at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1998.

It’s the 1959 Cooper T51 of Andrew Garner which the programme of the event says has a 2½ litre engine, presumably the 2,495cc Coventry Climax FPF engine that powered these cars in 1959. The T51 was the car with which Jack Brabham won his first World Championship in 1959.

1959 Lister Jaguar

Andrew Garner drove this car in the 1950s Sports Car Race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1999.

It's a 1959 Lister Jaguar with the white bodywork and blue stripes of the American Briggs Cunningham team and is probably the second of these Costin bodied cars to be made, chassis BHL123, which went to Briggs Cunningham. Gary Pearson at one point restored the former Briggs Cunningham car, and this car at Silverstone has the same 6-cylinder inline 3,781cc Jaguar XK engine that was fitted to BHL123. The 1959 car was designed by Frank Costin to accommodate a Chevrolet Corvette engine, which most of them did, although a few of the cars used the same Jaguar engine as the earlier Lister 'Knobbly' cars. The red car next to the Lister is Andrew Garner's 2½ litre Cooper T51 which competed in the Maserati UK Race for Pre-1966 Grand Prix and Tasman Cars, The number 69 car appears to be a Jaguar C-Type, but isn't listed in the programme of the event.

1954 Cooper MkVIII

This car is passing under the Clay Hill bridge just after the Knickerbrook corner during the  500cc Formula Three Cars race at the Vintage Sports Car Club's Richard Seaman Memorial Trophies meeting at Oulton Park in June 1994.

It's the 1954 Cooper Mk VIII of Andrew Garner, one of the cars which dominated Formula 3 racing in the early postwar years. Many people found that the home-built cars with a 500cc motor cycle engine was an inexpensive way to compete in motor sport and Charles Cooper and his son John started to produce these cars in 1946, firstly for themselves but later making them for other people and eventually they formed the company that led to the Cooper Climax T51 with which Jack Brabham won the World Drivers' Championship in 1959.

1954 Cooper Mk VIII

This car competed in the 500cc Formula Three Cars class in the Historic Formula Junior Championship race at the Aston Martin Owners Club's Autumn Historic Car Races meeting at Oulton Park in September 1992.

It's the 1954 Cooper Mk VIII of Andrew Garner, one of the cars which dominated Formula 3 racing in the early postwar years. Many people found that the home-built cars with a 500cc motor cycle engine was an inexpensive way to compete in motor sport and Charles Cooper and his son John started to produce these cars in 1946, firstly for themselves but later making them for other people and eventually they formed the company that led to the Cooper Climax T51 with which Jack Brabham won the World Drivers' Championship in 1959.

1954 Cooper MkVIII

The Historic Sports Car Club’s meeting at Oulton Park in July 1992 included a Class for 1950s 500cc Formula 3 cars in the Monoposto Formula Junior Championship race which included this one that I photographed on the straight between Foulstons chicane and Knickerbrook.

It's the 1954 Cooper MkVIII of Andrew Garner, one of the 13 different 'Mark' numbers given to the Cooper 500cc machines between 1946 and 1959. The 500 Owners Association has a website which has lots of details of the 500cc Formula 3 cars including details of most of the marques that contested the races in that period.

1955 Cooper Jaguar T38

This car competed in the 1950s Sports Car Race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1998.

It's Andrew Garner's 1955 Cooper Jaguar T38, chassis CJ-3-55, with a 6-cylinder inline 3,442cc engine and one of three cars built by Cooper for endurance sports car racing. One of the cars competed in the 1955 Le Mans 24 Hour race, but retired after 4 hours with an oil leak.