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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