Cooper Racing Cars Autographed Items and Racing Memorabilia
Vintage 1951 photo, Peter Collins crashes with Cooper 500.
This is a vintage 1951 "The Motor" photo of Peter Collins crashing his F3 Cooper 500 at Brands Hatch.
It is quite a spectaculair shot and a great vintage piece of memorabilia of one of the most charismatic Ferrari drivers from the 1950's !
It is in good condition for its age and measures some 15.5 x 9.5 cm or 6 x 3.8 inches.
Only 1 available and a rare opportunity.
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Vintage 1953 photo of the International Trophy, Silverstone - Mike Hawthorn.
This is a vintage 1953 photograph of the start of the International Trophy held at Silverstone on May 9, 1953.
Clearly visible to the left is the # 35 Cooper T23 bristol of Bob Gerard (would finish the race in 6th spot), in the middle we see Mike Hawthorn in the # 12 Ferrari 500 who would win the race and to the right of Mike we see the the # 10 Cooper T24 - Alta of Peter Whitehead.
The rest of the starting numbers are very hard to read.
It measures some 8 x 5 inches or 21 x 13.5 cm.
It is in mint condition and the back carries no reference to the possible photographer.
Only 1 available of course.
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1959 Photo Grand Prix of Italy at Monza with Tony Brooks on Ferrari and Bruce McLaren on Cooper Climax.
This is a great photo of Tony Brooks in his # 30 Ferrari 246 being chased by Bruce McLaren on Cooper T51 Climax in the very first lap of the 1959 Gran Premio d'Italia at the Autodromo di Monza.
Tony would fail to complete the first lap due to clutch problems while Bruce's engine gave up the ghost in lap 22.
It measures some 9.5 x 6.5 inches (24 x 16 cm) and is black & white.
It appears to be a more modern print.
Only 1 available.
Vintage 1961 Cooper Climax F1 Brochure.
A simple, but interesting, B&W brochure for the Cooper Climax.
Measures apprimately 9 x 6.25 inches and opens up to 18 x 6.25 inches.
Inside shows specifications and ghost view drawing.
This is a vintage 1961 B&W photo of the pack coming through the Parabolica turn during the 1961 Grand Prix of Italy at the Autodromo di Monza.
The photo shows not less than FIVE of the famous Ferrari 156 Sharknose cars in 1 single view!
This race would of course go down in hisory as one of the most dramatic ever as seconds after this photo was taken, the Ferrari of Wolfgang von Trips and the Lotus of Jim Clark would get tangled up and von Trips would lose his life in the resulting crash.
Going through the cars in the picture, starting at the bottom, we see the following drivers:
It is amazing to see that only 1 (Sir Jack Brabham) out of the above 9 drivers is still alive today...
This photo measures a staggering 12 x 9.5 inches.
It is in mint condition for its age.
Please note that this photo is too big for our scanner so we had to digitally "stitch" two scans together to be able to present the total image. The horizontal line at the bottom of the image is a result of that. This is NOT visible in the actual photo!
The back carries the photographer's stamp.
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