Cooper T66

Cooper T66

Cooper Car Company

Race record0 | Fastest_laps = 0 wins from 13 | Podiums = 4 | Wins = 0 | Fastest_laps = 0 races

Among the 14 Cooper Car Company entries in the MotorJury library, the Cooper T66 holds its own page in a catalogue built to record every car ever made, from series production to one-off concepts. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.

The era it was born into

The record does not fix a firm introduction year for the Cooper T66, which is itself informative: cars without a clean launch date are usually prototypes, coachbuilt specials, or models whose history was written down long after the fact. The catalogue keeps them anyway, because the odd corners of the record are where the interesting machines hide.

The numbers, read closely

On paper, the Cooper T66 reads like this: kerb weight is recorded at Differential = | Fuel = | Tyres = Dunlop | Debut = 1963 Monaco Grand Prix | Races = 13 | Podiums = 4 | Wins = 0 | Fastest_laps = 0. Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear.

Its place in the Cooper Car Company story

Within Cooper Car Company's own catalogue the Cooper T66 sits alongside the Cooper Mark IV, the Cooper T12, the Cooper T33, the Cooper T39. The record names the Cooper T60 | Successor = Cooper T73 | Team = Cooper Car Company / R.R.C. Walker Racing Team | Drivers = Bruce McLaren / Tony Maggs / Jo Bonnier| Chassis = Steel spaceframe | Front as its predecessor and the Cooper T73 | Team = Cooper Car Company / R.R.C. Walker Racing Team | Drivers = Bruce McLaren / Tony Maggs / Jo Bonnier| Chassis = Steel spaceframe | Front suspension = Double wishb as its successor, fixing its place in the model line's chronology. Design is credited to Owen Maddock | Predecessor = Cooper T60 | Successor = Cooper T73 | Team = Cooper Car Company / R.R.C. Walker Racing Team | Drivers = Bruce McLaren / Tony Maggs / Jo Bonnier| Chassi.

On the record

The Cooper T66 also has a competition record: 0 | Fastest_laps = 0 recorded wins from 13 | Podiums = 4 | Wins = 0 | Fastest_laps = 0 starts. A race history changes how a car should be valued — competition machines appreciate on provenance, not depreciation curves.

How this catalogue works

This library is generated, verified and rebuilt from the open record on every deploy. The catalogue skeleton comes from Wikidata, specifications from Wikipedia's infoboxes under CC BY-SA, photography from Wikimedia Commons under each file's own licence, and the ownership data from United States federal safety records. Nothing is written by hand and nothing is invented: every fact on this page traces to a public source, and every page is rebuilt nightly as those sources improve. Errors in the source record will appear here too — and disappear the night the source is corrected.

From catalogue to ownership

A specification sheet is only half a car's story. The other half — what breaks, what it costs to keep, which years to avoid — lives in MotorJury's ownership database, computed nightly from federal complaint and recall records and EPA economy data. Where the Cooper T66 was sold in the United States, its model years carry full ownership verdicts there.

Specifications

Kerb weightDifferential = | Fuel = | Tyres = Dunlop | Debut = 1963 Monaco Grand Prix | Races = 13 | Podiums = 4 | Wins = 0 | Fastest_laps = 0
Wheelbase2311 mm | Track = F: 1308 mm / R: 1283 mm | Engine name = Coventry Climax FWMV | Capacity = 1.5-litre | Turbo/NA = naturally aspirated, | Configuration = V8, | Engine position = re
DesignerOwen Maddock | Predecessor = Cooper T60 | Successor = Cooper T73 | Team = Cooper Car Company / R.R.C. Walker Racing Team | Drivers = Bruce McLaren / Tony Maggs / Jo Bonnier| Chassi
PredecessorCooper T60 | Successor = Cooper T73 | Team = Cooper Car Company / R.R.C. Walker Racing Team | Drivers = Bruce McLaren / Tony Maggs / Jo Bonnier| Chassis = Steel spaceframe | Front
SuccessorCooper T73 | Team = Cooper Car Company / R.R.C. Walker Racing Team | Drivers = Bruce McLaren / Tony Maggs / Jo Bonnier| Chassis = Steel spaceframe | Front suspension = Double wishb
Catalogue IDQ65131189

Specifications come from the Wikipedia infobox for this model (CC BY-SA) and the open Wikidata record, and are shown only where a source actually carries them — nothing here is estimated. Figures are manufacturer specifications, not measured results.

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