Quote Originally Posted by Michael Clark View Post
We know that T53 'F2-13-58' is nonsense - Angus Hyslop took a car carrying that chassis plate to the UK and returned with a T53 that, for reasons of convenience, retained that plate.

A T53 could hardly have been built in 1958 - however Vercoe's book refers to the car having been 'low-lined' by Cooper...not the work of a moment. David McKinney was the most fastidious chassis number noter I have ever encountered. .
Michael, I see what you mean by "nonsense" chassis plates.

In 1961 Angus Hyslop raced a Cooper Climax T45 2 litre chassis F2-13-53

In 1962 - 63 Hyslop raced a Cooper Climax T53 2.5 litre but surprise surprise it had the same chassis number F2-13-58

This latter was the car bought by Palmer.