Mystery Friday Foto #9 Solved: Gary Cooper and Henry Austin Clark, Jr. going for a ride in the Hamptons (Circa 1960)
Did you identify this weekend's Mystery Foto?
Answers to the Mystery Foto questions:
Identify:
- The driver and passenger
Actor Gary Cooper (1901-1961) and Henry Austin Clark, Jr.
- The year of the Mystery Foto
Circa 1960
- The manufacturer, year and model of the automobile
1910 Simplex 50 HP Speed Car. Note: Very similar to Clark's 1911 Mercer.
Comments (11)
Congrats to Ron Ridolph, Jerry Nicholas, Jim Clark, Greg O., Steve Lucas and Dick Gorman for identifying Gary Cooper and Henry Austin Clark, Jr.
Kudos to Jerry Nicholas, Jim Clark and Roger Price for identifying the Simplex.
Enjoy,
Howard Kroplick
Close-Ups
1910 Simplex 50 HP Speed Car
Note: The pump near the rear tire matches the Mystery Foto.
1911 Mercer 35R Runabout
Comments
Henry Austin Clark Jr is the passenger
The photo shows actor Gary Cooper and Henry Austin Clark jr.
The passenger is Austin Clark. I have no idea about anything else.
Gary Cooper and Austen Clark in the 1910 Simplex.
- Gary Cooper
- Austin Clark
- 1954
- 1911 Simplex Speed Car
Gary Cooper and Henry Austin Clark, Jr., in 1965. Trying to ID the car….
The passenger is Henry Austin Clark, Jr.
That looks like Gary Cooper in the driver’s seat with Henry Austin Clark, Jr. as his passenger. The car is a 1911 Mercer type 35-R Raceabout. Some references have the date as 1965 but since Gary Cooper died in 1961, the date of the photo is probably closer to 1960.
Is the driver Les Cutting?
The passenger is Austin Clark.
The car seems to be a Simplex.
Rog
Mystery Foto #9… Actor Gary Cooper is the driver and the passenger is Henry Austin Clark. The year of the mystery Foto is 1965. The Car is, I believe, a 1911 Mercer Raceabout also known as the Type 35 R. One of America’s really great cars of the pioneer era.
I will never be able to own one of these so perhaps I should do the next best thing and build a model
Is the car the Black Beast?
Gary Cooper lived a bit NE of the museum; his wife’s family I believe were from the area, and as he aged he spent more time there, loving cars he would go to the museum to check them out and go for rides with Austin. Copper is buried in Southampton just east of the museum , no headstone to mark the grave but just a large natural stone. We used to drive through the graveyard after having lunch at John Ducks restaurant to pay our respects to Gary Cooper in the 1920 Autocar hotel bus.