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.