For the final year of the 1500cc Formula 1, Cooper produced the T77, with only minor changes from the preceding T73. Little further development was done during another dismal season. Bruce McLaren was joined as driver by Austrian F2 star Jochen Rindt.
Cooper were just going through the motions during 1965 as the team prepared for the new 3-litre F1 to come in 1966. After Charles Cooper's death, his son John Cooper looked for a buyer, and in April 1965 a deal was done with Jonathan Sieff's Chipstead Group. Following that, a deal was struck with Maserati for supply of engines for 1966, as Coventry Climax had announced that they were pulling out. Designer Owen Maddock had left, leaving draughtsman Eddie Stait to be listed as the designer of the T77, although he also left for McLaren's new operation during 1965.
The two T77s were quickly sold off to hillclimbers although one would return to F1 with an ATS engine in the back. Both vanished in the late 1960s, although a car has recently appeared in Switzerland that is said to be F1-1-65. The other car remains to be rediscovered somewhere in America.
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