CAR: 1963 Cooper type 67 Serial Number 10

Motor: Holbay Ford 109e Serial Number 5B-116399
Carburettors: Twin Weber 40 DCOE
Fuel: Racing Petrol
Transmission: Jack Knight Citroen 6 Speed

Below is the Known History of this car.

'Elde',Leon Dernier

Leon Dernier Purchased this car in March of 1963 for the Cooper Works. The car was painted in the Belgian national color Yellow. 'Elde' was Leon Dernier (LD being his initials). 'Dernier' actually means 'last' in French, so this was hardly an appropriate name for a racing driver. Elde also did quite well at Le Mans, finishing 3rd twice and 4th once in 5 starts. He was killed at Spa in 1969.

2nd June 1963- XXXIII Grand Prix des FrontEres Championnat de Belgique Chimay, Belgium

Qualifying
Grid 9 Car# 15 "Elde (Leon Dernier), B Ecole de Pilotage Belge Cooper T67 - Ford
Race DNS Car# 15 "Elde (Leon Dernier), B Ecole de Pilotage Belge Cooper T67 - Ford

23nd June 1963- V Coupe de Vitesse de l'A.C. Normand, XI Grand Prix de Rouen Championnat de France, Rd 3

Qualifying
Grid DNQ Car# 15 "Elde (Leon Dernier), B Ecole de Pilotage Belge Cooper T67 - Ford
Race DNS Car# 15 "Elde (Leon Dernier), B Ecole de Pilotage Belge Cooper T67 - Ford

Reims 1963:

Reims also was a road circuit.This is a track map showing the track configuration in 1964

30th June 1963-VII Coupe Int. de Vitesse des Juniors, Championnat de France, Round 4 Circuit de Reims-Gueux, France

(IL Grand Prix de l'A.C.F - Formule 1)
Qualifying:
Grid 21 car# 15 "Elde" (Leon Dernier), F Equipe Nationale Belge Cooper T67 - Ford Results:
DNF car# 15 "Elde" (Leon Dernier), F Equipe Nationale Belge Cooper T67 - Ford

7th July 1963-XII Grosser Preis der Solitude Preis von Baden-Wurttemberg, Solitude Germany

Solitude was a race run on the roads outside Stutgart Germany. In 1963 the track ran under this configuration:

Image of 'Eldé' at the 1963 GP

Seconds after the start.

Qualifying:
Grid 17 car #15 "Leon Elde" Equipe Nationale Belge Cooper T67 4m33.9
Race:
Finishing Position 12th car # 15 "Leon Elde" Equipe Nationale Belge Cooper T67 Ford

28th August 1963- Grote Prijs van Zolder, Championnat de Benelux, Rd Omloop van Zolder, Hasselt, Belgium Zolder 1963

Qualifying: Grid 11 Car# 15 "Elde" (Leon Dernier), B Belgian Racing Team Cooper T67 - Ford
Race:
Finish 16 Car# 15 "Elde" (Leon Dernier), B Belgian Racing Team Cooper T67 - Ford

9th September 1963- XXI Grand Prix d'Albi, XXI Grand Prix du Midi Pyrenes Languedoc Championnat de France, Round 7 Circuit du Sequestre, Albi, France

Qualifying:
DNQ Car#15 "Elde" (Leon Dernier), B Equipe Nationale Belge Cooper T67 - Ford

After this race Leon Dernier either sold or lent the car to Paul Deeten's who had wrecked his t59.

History with Paul Deeten

15th September 1963 - Flugplatzrennen Achum, Round 8

Achum - 52.0 km (4.0 km x 13 laps)
Race:
DNF Car #15 Paul Deetens Belgian Racing Team Cooper T67 Ford

29th September 1963 - Eifelpokal Rennen, Round Nurburgring Sudschleife - 154.94 km (7.747 km x 20 laps)

Qualifying:
Grid 37 Car #15 Paul Deetens Belgian Racing Team Cooper T67 Ford
Race:
DNF Car #15 Paul Deetens Belgian Racing Team Cooper T67 Ford

UNKNOWN Gap 1963-1965

The Car Change hand since then Deetens. We know the car came over here and may have been brought over by Revson.

James Ahlquist 1963-1968

We believe that James Bought this car from Revson. We are still investigating this. James is listed as racing this car in 1965, 1967 and 1968. In 1967 James raced the car at the ARRC finishing 7th in Formula C. Below are images of the car from that event.


Joseph "?" 1968-1972

While not certain we believe that James or Joe wrecked the car in a front impact. Joe sold the car to Richard Clark MD

Richard Clark MD 1972-1982

Richard bought this car from "Joeseph" friend of James Ahlquist in 1972 in pieces. Richard decided it was too much of a project and sold it to Colin Sparkes. Below shows the car as Richard bought it.


Colin Sparkes 1982-1986

Colin Sparkes Bought this car in a "box" in the earlly eighties and restored it.
Here is an image of Colin driving the car at Laguna. Colin has been extremely helppful and is sending us the Log Book he has for the car.


Jerry Morici 1986-1992

Colin sold the car in the Eighties to Jerri Morici. Jerri raced the car at least 5 times. Jerri sold the car to someone else but the deal went sour and the was put up for auction in 1992.
t up for auction in 1992.

1992 to present

We Acquired the Car at auction in Monterey - Images of the car prior to our restoration. The car has the original body panels- the tail, transmission, brakes, engine. The major pieces missing where the tail which colin had made a t59 like tail, and the radiator which had been replaces d by a brass core American made unit.