rodriquez cooper

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Can anyone help me with the color scheme of the Pedro Rodriquez Cooper that he tried to qualify in '63? Still looking for info on the colors of the Barney Navarro #50 Rambler

Thanks

Rick

[beardogracing]

Sept 17, 2014 12:19:27 GMT -5 @arcarace said:

Can anyone help me with the color scheme of the Pedro Rodriquez Cooper that he tried to qualify in '63? Still looking for info on the colors of the Barney Navarro #50 Rambler

Thanks

Rick

This one?

[racerbrown]

pretty funky looking exhaust on that thing. :-)
duane

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That would be the one, was it actually powered by an Aston motor? And was it Brabham's 1961 car?

Still need help on the Navarro Rambler color scheme #50. Does anybody know or remember a cooper running the Rex Mays race in the early 60's ?

Thanks Again

Rick

[eagle36]

Sept 18, 2014 12:44:19 GMT -5 @arcarace said:

That would be the one, was it actually powered by an Aston motor? And was it Brabham's 1961 car?

Still need help on the Navarro Rambler color scheme #50. Does anybody know or remember a cooper running the Rex Mays race in the early 60's ?

Thanks Again

Rick

The Rodriquez Cooper-Aston was Brabham's 1961 car. Kjell Qvale was the entrant an he was the west coast importer of Ason-Martin and a number of other cars. The A-M engine was 4.2 liters and had been very successful in sports car racing, so it seemed like goo idea at the time.

For the Navarro car, check this out: justacarguy.blogspot.com/2013/02/700-hp-199-cu-in-amc-rambler-straight-6.html


The Cooper only ran Indy in 1961 and then again in 1963, and I think that was it. Jim Kimberly, who entered it in 1961, also bought and entered one of the Mickey Thompson cars in 1962 at Indy. He had a duplicate built by the original builders and I remember seeing both at the Rex Mays in 1963.

[johnwebster]

Barney Navarro
1968:

Drivers named for #50 in 1967 were Les Scott and Norm Hall.

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I saw this car pound around and around. It was finally crashed by I believe Less Scott. Thanks for posting this nice color photo!

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Thanks guys, really helps alot. Any photos of the other coopers, from Milwaukee maybe. I really like the off the wall cars from Indy, miss the days when guys tried to build a better mousetrap.