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1959 Cooper Monaco-Climax Type 49 Sports-Racing Two-Seater Registration no. 101 UYR Chassis no. CM/4/59• Period and historic Goodwood race history • Extensive period history – Cuban GP, Bahamas, etc. • Highly original • Well-known provenance • Regularly raced and toured • FIA HTP GB9081 valid to the end of 2025 FootnotesIt is particularly apt that we offer yet another historic 'Goodwood car' - the rear-engined Cooper Monaco T49 which was entered in the 1959 RAC Tourist Trophy race here by the prominent, highly successful - and in some quarters feared - private entrant John Coombs, the Guildford-based Jaguar dealer. Having made his name as a highly competitive and competent owner-driver of Cooper, Connaught and Lotus cars, 'Noddy' Coombs fielded this Cooper Monaco in the TT for immensely respected future triple World Champion driver Jack - later Sir Jack - Brabham and his former Cooper works team-mate Roy Salvadori, who was then fresh from his victory (paired with Carroll Shelby) in that year's Le Mans 24-Hour race, driving for Aston Martin. 'Noddy' Coombs insisted upon immaculate preparation and presentation of his cars. He was also renowned for having a personal fuse so short that he once fired on the spot someone he thought was a member of staff at his Guildford distributorship for "loafing around" when the unfortunate fellow was in fact a would-be customer viewing the Jaguars that Coombs had for sale. Cooper Monaco 'CM/4/59' is recorded within the surviving Cooper Car Company factory records as having been completed in April 1959 for Jack Brabham himself. It was to be delivered (less engine) to Brabham who was described as "Australia – temporary overseas resident", possibly for UK tax reasons. The car was to be prepared by Ken Stratton and run by John Coombs's Guildford garage. It was liveried in the Coombs colours of off-white with blue flashes, and was a sister car to a matching Cooper Monaco also completed by Ken Stratton at Coombs for Roy Salvadori to drive. That sister car used a 4-cylinder 2.5-litre Maserati engine, while 'CM/4/59' for Brabham was first fitted with a 4-cylinder 2-litre Coventry Climax FPF power unit. These non-identical-twin Coombs Monacos of Salvadori and Brabham proved to be the most successful of that British season. Jack Brabham made his debut in the car at the British Empire Trophy, Oulton Park, meeting on April 11, 1959, finishing third behind the Cooper Monacos of Jim Russell and Roy Salvadori and just ahead of Graham Hill's pole position Lotus 15 while also setting fastest race lap. One week later, at Aintree, Salvadori won the sports car race in the larger-engined sister Coombs car, with Brabham seventh. The Silverstone May Meeting followed, the Coombs Monacos carrying Roy Salvadori to win from pole position, while Jack Brabham again set fastest lap in 'CM/4/59' after qualifying fourth and finishing sixth. On May 18, 1959, Jack Brabham contested the Formula 2 Pau GP in France while the Crystal Palace National Open meeting saw 'CM/4/59' driven by 'Palace specialist' Roy Salvadori. Again, the Salvadori/Monaco combination took fastest lap while finishing second behind Innes Ireland's works Lotus. Into July the British Grand Prix meeting at Aintree, Liverpool, saw the supporting sports car race dominated by the Lotus 15s of Graham Hill and Alan Stacey, with Jack Brabham third. Yet again the Australian star set fastest lap in 'CM/4/59', this time sharing it with Stirling Moss in his new private Cooper Monaco, but it sported a 2.5-litre F1-spec Coventry Climax FPF engine. A brief Scandinavian tour followed. At Karlskoga, Sweden, on August 9, Brabham finished second to Moss's Monaco, while at Copenhagen's Roskilde Ring in Denmark the following weekend Moss won again, with Brabham third in 'CM/4/59', behind David Piper's second-placed Lotus 15. Back in England for the 24th RAC Tourist Trophy race, at Goodwood on September 5, Brabham co-drove this Cooper Monaco with his young New Zealander F1 Cooper t