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SAC#824 :Cooper -Bristol , Tony Cook's car from 1953
« on: October 03, 2014, 01:14:54 AM »
What's this and from when does it date , for 1 point !   :)
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« Reply #1 on: October 10, 2014, 01:48:52 AM »
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« Reply #2 on: October 11, 2014, 05:04:37 AM »
Cooper-Bristol from about 1955
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« Reply #3 on: October 11, 2014, 04:46:22 PM »
Yes , a Cooper-Bristol but older !
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Re: SAC#824 : Locked
« Reply #4 on: October 11, 2014, 06:22:55 PM »
I should have checked in Doug Nye's Cooper history.  It's TPD 1, Tony Cook's car from 1953, christened 'Mucky Pup' by a subsequent owner
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Re: SAC#824 : Locked
« Reply #5 on: October 12, 2014, 03:06:47 AM »
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Cooper -Bristol , Tony Cook's car from 1953
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Re: SAC#824 :Cooper -Bristol , Tony Cook's car from 1953
« Reply #6 on: October 12, 2014, 06:14:31 AM »
That's a very early photo of the car, and may well have been taken at the car's first appearance at the May 1953 International Trophy meeting. Later in the season it had a different radiator grille and twin exhausts. It was based on a MkI T20 Formula 2 car, but the following year Tony Crook preferred his later "sports" car based on a Mk2 T23 car, the one with the cycle wings.
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Re: SAC#824 :Cooper -Bristol , Tony Cook's car from 1953
« Reply #7 on: October 13, 2014, 07:05:50 AM »
The name should be spelt "Crook". Tony Crook  passed away in January 2014, and will be remembered not only as a fine driver, but the man who continued running Bristol Cars long into his old age, owner, manager, secretary, chief road tester, parts manager, head salesman, tea boy, goofer, the whole shebang. He lived and breathed Bristols.
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Re: SAC#824 :Cooper -Bristol , Tony Cook's car from 1953
« Reply #8 on: October 13, 2014, 07:25:50 PM »
Apologies.  My typing error not Sir Doug's.

His photo shows the car at the International Trophy meeting and it is sporting no 18.
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Re: SAC#824 :Cooper -Bristol , Tony Cook's car from 1953
« Reply #9 on: October 14, 2014, 04:05:26 AM »
The " Daily Express International Trophy " at Silverstone 1953 !
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