John Cooper at the wheel of their racing car with its bodywork stripped in Surbition, Surrey with his co-driver Bill Aston. Cooper, the creator of one of the Sixties' coolest cars, died aged 77, his family said. * The former motor racing driver devised the souped-up Mini Cooper in 1961 and it became the ultimate in four-wheeled chic. Mr Cooper, who lived at Worthing, West Sussex, was awarded a CBE for services to the motor industry in the New Year's honours list in 1999.
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