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Solved NIC#970 - 1962 Aiden-Cooper Formula 1
« on: August 13, 2018, 08:43:20 AM »
I couldn't believe we hadn't had this one before. What is it?
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Re: NIC#970
« Reply #1 on: August 21, 2018, 01:19:50 AM »
F1 of the early sixties ?
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Re: NIC#970
« Reply #2 on: August 21, 2018, 06:10:22 AM »
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Re: NIC#970
« Reply #3 on: August 21, 2018, 06:53:04 AM »
English ?
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Re: NIC#970
« Reply #4 on: August 21, 2018, 07:02:16 AM »
Quote from: smodmog on August 21, 2018, 06:53:04 AM
English ?

Yes, although the design was funded from outside that country.
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Re: NIC#970
« Reply #5 on: August 21, 2018, 07:13:16 AM »
Lotus base car ?
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Re: NIC#970
« Reply #6 on: August 22, 2018, 04:13:09 AM »
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Re: NIC#970
« Reply #7 on: August 22, 2018, 05:32:17 AM »
BRM ?
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Re: NIC#970
« Reply #8 on: August 22, 2018, 06:34:10 AM »
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Re: NIC#970
« Reply #9 on: August 22, 2018, 06:56:19 AM »
Cooper ?
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Re: NIC#970
« Reply #10 on: August 22, 2018, 07:33:07 AM »
Quote from: smodmog on August 22, 2018, 06:56:19 AM
Cooper ?

Yes. It is based on a Cooper.
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Re: NIC#970
« Reply #11 on: August 22, 2018, 08:19:35 AM »
Cooper Climax ?
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Re: NIC#970
« Reply #12 on: August 22, 2018, 09:51:27 AM »
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Cooper Climax ?

The puzzle car is not a Cooper-Climax. The car was based on a Cooper and powered by a Coventry-Climax engine, but it was not the usual Cooper we would know about.

I require the name of the car, and the model of Cooper upon which it was based.
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Re: NIC#970
« Reply #13 on: August 22, 2018, 11:43:08 AM »
Aiden-Cooper- Climax T59
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Re: NIC#970
« Reply #14 on: August 22, 2018, 01:15:11 PM »
Quote from: smodmog on August 22, 2018, 11:43:08 AM
Aiden-Cooper- Climax T59

Yes. It was designed by Hugh Aiden-Jones who was a mechanic for Anglo-American racing, financed by American heiress Louise Brydon-Browne. It consisted of a Cooper T59 Formula Junior chassis fitted with the usual Climax FPF, and raced in the 1962 season. Originally it was supposed to have a pointed nose and side radiators but that idea was soon discarded.

Not a successful car.
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Re: Solved NIC#970 - 1962 Aiden-Cooper Formula 1
« Reply #15 on: August 22, 2018, 05:19:47 PM »
 By 1962 the 4-cylinder FPF was outdated.  You had to have a V8 - either Climax or BRM.
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Re: Solved NIC#970 - 1962 Aiden-Cooper Formula 1
« Reply #16 on: August 23, 2018, 04:08:27 AM »
Quote from: D-type on August 22, 2018, 05:19:47 PM
By 1962 the 4-cylinder FPF was outdated.  You had to have a V8 - either Climax or BRM.

Indeed - even SCM would have struggled, had he not been down to drive a works-spec Ferrari tampered with by Alf Francis. Yet another "what might have been" season for the Great Man, had the season ever really taken off.

Sorry - OT on my own thread!
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