Cooper Cars

by Doug Nye

No stone was left unturned in researching this book. This incredibly comprehensive work includes many items from John Cooper's personal records and photo albums, the company's chassis books, as well as 300-plus black-and-white photos and 16 color images. Further unique archival material comes from many of those involved in building the cars and the cars' subsequent owners. Unquestionably regarded as the benchmark work on Cooper, the cars so significant in the development of postwar racing car design.Originally published in 1983 ISBN 1-85532-919-0 Winner of the Montagu Trophy and the Pierre Dreyfus Award

400 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 2003

Reviews

[Shrike58 · Rating 4 out of 5]

If you're interested in the rise of British dominance in Formula 1 racing, you could do a lot worse than this in-depth accounting of Cooper. They were basically the first of the small British firms that Enzo Ferrari dismissed as "garagistes," and who turned inspiration, clever engineering, and sheer hard work, into something that looked like dominance in the 1960s and until the late1970s. The less-than-hardcore may find that Nye gets lost in the weeds of accounting for each racing reason, but at least one can enjoy this book on the relative cheap (unlike Nye's books on BRM!).