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[Cooperman]

There was a thread a while back with loads of historic Mini photos including pics. of Minis in competition in the early days.
I just found this one of me navigating my great friend Bill Rogers in his 1961 Mini 850 on the Scorpio Rally in, I think, 1962 when I was just 21 and a bit. From memory we finished 3rd overall nout of about 75 cars. Minis were marvellous even back then.

[mingy]

A tall dark man in a raincoat on a dark country lane, i am surprised you stopped and wound down your window!!
Jesting apart these photos a brilliant, keep them coming coops.

[Joe-C]

It's pretty cool seeing a bog standard 850 being rallied compared to the works "S"s.

[rally1380]

I bet there are a few people on here that would give their right arm for a mini of that age!!!

Superb pic....think i'm going to have to go through my father's old rally pic's.

[Cooperman]

This is not a Mini, but it's still a Rover. It's Mick & me flat out on a test on our way to winning the Yorkshire Endurance Rally in 2006 in the Rover 214Si. Proof that a 65-year old can still beat the youngsters! That was a 320 mile event over a day and all night with only a couple of hour-long breaks.

Edited by Cooperman, 13 December 2012 - 10:14 PM.

[iMurray]

O.o you sir are the boss.

[Cooperman]

If you don't mind non-Mini photos here is the Cortina GT which was the main rival to the Cooper and Cooper 'S' in British rallying in the mid-60's. I was co-driving for the late Alec Lobb and in this shot we are re-fuelling and it looks as though I'm driving. The event was over 2300 miles long with only one night in bed and about 70 special stages, so each crew members had to drive on road sections so that the other could get a 'kip'.

[jaydee]

This was the thread!!

http://www.theminifo...-racing-photos/

[mk1leg]

Nice pics cooperman..................

[dow62]

Mini or non mini, more photos please. (time allowing of course ! )

[Cooperman]

Here is one which should give my friends on here a bit of a laugh. It's my friend Kevin Videan and me at the start of the Jim Clark National Rally in 1974 with our 'works/Old Woking' Datsun 240Z. I'm the 'oik' on the right with the long hair. Now, that was some car with about 255 bhp, triple Weber 50 DCOE's, a 2.8 litre 'works' engine. My son Mike was about n2 months old then and now he's 38 and working on the design of Lewis Hamilton's F1 Mercedes car for next year!

[cradley-heathen]

great pics there cooperman!

i do have a request though, several people on here have mentioned your mini in the "whos car would you like to own" thread, and i must admit i dont think i have ever seen it? could you point me in the direction of a thread on here for it if you have started one, or if you could pm me some if you wouldnt mind?

[cradley-heathen]

Here is one which should give my friends on here a bit of a laugh. It's my friend Kevin Videan and me at the start of the Jim Clark National Rally in 1974 with our 'works/Old Woking' Datsun 240Z. I'm the 'oik' on the right with the long hair. Now, that was some car with about 255 bhp, triple Weber 50 DCOE's, a 2.8 litre 'works' engine. My son Mike was about n2 months old then and now he's 38 and working on the design of Lewis Hamilton's F1 Mercedes car for next year!

also the guy at the back of the picture on the far right, just about to walk out of shot, is that wilfred brambell? (aka steptoe) 'AROLD!!!!!!!!

[minispaniard]

those look like some very fancy shoes for rallying!!!

having met Cooperman once last year while marshaling a test at the X-Part Endurance Rally I must say he is ageing rather well

[rally1380]

Yeh i spotted the 'works issue' leather rally shoes......straight out of the car and into a nightclub....rock and roll!