MG Car Club of South Australia
BAZZICAS FOLLY
The Story of KN 0386 first registered in 27 / 9 / 1935 By... Bob Bazzica
nce upon a time there was a guy by
O the name of Rob Dunsterville who was an Australian MG friend living in England, who was finding MG‘ Sfor another famous Australian Phil Redhead. It came to pass that 2 cars were found in a barn both K types. They were sent to Australia and sold Immediately, the KN went to a Mr Hocking of Melbourne, who then ordered a lot of spares for the project, but he eventually realised the job was too much, and put it on the market. Enter Robert Bazzica a would be pre-war owner, who had previously been to England to buy a P type MG, but found that by Australian standards everything was rusty junk, so came home empty handed. A quick check of KN’ s said that it was the best chassis ever made, with the biggest engine available. This sounded just what I needed, being a bit of a racer in my time. Then I saw a photo of Cecil Kimber’ s own special bodied KN by Corsica. As I worked on the car and stripped out the chassis, I realized that this car had been in continuous service, and was bolt perfect. In other words all the bolts were in their original holes, and not been changed, and as originality was the flavour of the year. I started the usual pulling out all the bolts cleaning them and putting the back in the original holes. This got very time consuming, and the project died a natural death for some years to come. Over the next 30 years work was done bit by bit, and most people who saw the pro-
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