April 2018
original car.
As KN saloons are very rare, I have
built the body without chopping up
the original frames and reworked
much along the original lines. This
idea was to enable the original body
to be placed on top, and rebuilt to
the 4 door saloon if somebody
wanted to! I have kept the original
turret in one piece, and the 4 doors
in good order.
In April 2017 I decided to finish the
project, and in Dec 2017 it was com-
plete, wired, running car. Currently it is
un- supercharged, I will get it sorted and
tuned, and then fit a SC14 Toyota
blower.
The reason for the big push to finally
finish this car was that I had purchased
a TD Arnolt coupe, a lovely car, but
presently very rusty.
Looking at the time involved, I have to
live to 103 years old to finish all my pro-
jects.
Approximate status of KN ‘S in the world
are as follows
ject thought it would be a deceased es-
tate car!
Over the years I had many ideas of what
to do, but working in my little dark ga-
rage did not inspire and little was done.
One of the highlights during this period
was I was offered the body of Peter
Briggs K3 in Perth, for me to build a rep-
lica of a K3. This was a great offer, but I
still wanted to build a Corsica bodied
look- a- like Kimbers JB3717.
There are not many photos of Kimbers
car existing, so I asked Jean Kimber
Cook for more photos, she said she
would find some, but this never hap-
pened, so using the one good photo I
had I continued to build the car.
The original Kimber car was sold, and a
few years later it was upgraded with a
revamped rear end, and guards filled in
with side panels like the SA, with windup
windows and forward opening doors.
I liked the forward opening doors, so I
decided to go that way, rather than the
rear opening doors as per Kimbers
Total production of KN’s was. 201 units
Original saloon bodied cars now is 6 left
in existence
4 seat KN tourers by University Motors.
7 left in existence
4 seat tourer Kimber car. 1 left
4 Seat tourer Bazzica’s folly look a like.
1 in existence.
The car will hopefully be on display at
the Tasmanian National Meeting
this Easter.
Bazz
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