George-Francis “Johnny” Servoz-Gavin died recently, at the early age of 64, in his hometown of Grenoble. He was one of...
This year’s Bonhams & Butterfields sale at Quail Lodge (August 18) will feature 17 cars from the world renowned Rosso...
Russo and Steele will feature several rare and collectible automobiles form the Jim Foust Collection at their August 18–19 Sports and Muscle in Monterey Collector Automobile Auction. Some of the more significant cars from the Foust Collection will be a Full Competition 427 Cobra and a Ford Galaxie 427 R...
Shock waves reverberated through the Italian vintage motor racing world at the end of May, after the surprise announcement that...
“The best motoring all-rounder in the world,” So opened John Sprinzel’s Autosport reports of the 1963 and ‘64 Tour de...
The vintage motor racing world of northern Italy mobilized itself impressively on June 11 to commemorate Enzo Ferrari’s last victory as a driver 75 years ago. Ferrari won the 13-kilometre 1931 Bobbio-Passo del Penice hillclimb in an Alfa Romeo 8C 2300 MM at an average speed of 66 km/h. The...
Gooding & Company announced it has been chosen to conduct the sale of the Otis Chandler Collection of classic automobiles,...
After reading this issue, and re-discovering the breadth and significance of Cooper racing cars to the history and progression of...
August 2006 Stirling Moss Scrapbook 1961 By Stirling Moss and Philip Porter This book is the second in a series of scrapbooks that take a revealing look at one year in the life of Stirling Moss. As described here previously with the first edition, covering the year 1955, the 1961...
Road Atlanta, Braeselton, GA April 26–30, 2006 A sinister pair of Mazda GTP Cars.Photo: Michael Casey-DiPleco Become a Member &...
Indianapolis, IN May 27, 2006 Jess Kinder driving the 1935 Evans Miller-Ford.Photo: Jim Hatfield Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the full article is limited to paid subscribers only. Our membership removes most ads, lets you enjoy unlimited access to all our...
Brands Hatch, England May 6–7, 2006 The Ligier JS2 of Paul Knapfield.Photo: Peter Collins Become a Member & Get Ad-Free...
Interview most any racecar designer and you’ll likely hear a beautifully turned tale of insight, and enlightenment, and clever science artfully applied. Then, there were the Coopers. Neither father Charles, nor son John, were science-minded. In fact, they had no more than basic formal education. What they did bring to...
The under 2-liter Grand Touring (GT) cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international...
Ignazio Giunti Jackie Oliver 4 Count Agusta buys O.S.C.A. from the Maserati brothers (1963). 8 F1 and CART champion Nigel...
Until Sir Jack Brabham won the Times Grand Prix in 1961, the Ken Miles-driven, John Von Neumann-owned Porsche-Cooper was the most successful Cooper on the U.S. West Coast. Even though its career was short, Miles achieved the ultimate grand slam. He won both an under-1,500-cc and over-1,500-cc main event in...
I’ve been asked to write a description of how to drive through a corner. Not any corner, a corner of...
The 1959 Monaco Grand Prix; Monte Carlo, May 10, 1959. Stirling Moss turning into the old Gasworks Hairpin at the...
Jack Brabham takes his second Formula One World Championship crown after winning the 1960 Portuguese Grand Prix. His fifth consecutive victory in the Cooper-Climax T53. He had previously won at Zandvoort, Spa, Reims, and Silverstone. This was the third and last time the Oporto street circuit was used for Grand...
My first visit to Donington Park motor racing circuit was as an 11 year old lad, with my father. It...
The British are usually all for the underdog and just love a giant killer. Well, they certainly got their money’s worth with the cheeky little Mini Cooper S, 10-ft long, 4-ft 5-ins high and powered by a zesty transverse, 4-cylinder, 1,275-cc engine. This tiny car, which was originally designed to...
There are a number of names synonymous with Cooper. Charles and John Cooper, of course, but there is one other....
The Resurrection of an Indy Icon John Cooper sits at the wheel of the Kimberly Cooper prior to Tech inspection...
1959 Cooper T-51 and 1960 Cooper T-53 The two Formula 1 Coopers you see here represent one of the key moments in the evolution of Grand Prix racing. From the beginning of the Drivers’ Championship in 1950, front-engine cars were the norm. Through the years of the 2.5-liter engine formula,...