[Mg-mmm] K3027

[Chris Nowlan]

Guys,

    I knew Bill Hill from my years with Jerry Goguen and he actually stayed 
at my home for a few days.   He was certainly an odd duck and very 
secretive.  Bill Hill had the car going well back into the 60's and always 
claimed that he owned it but apparently it was actually owned by two 
Canadian brothers who had left the car with Bill for restoration.( they must 
have left their brains elsewhere during all those years!)  Chaz Jones told 
me about  Fred Simione's acquisition of the car a few years ago and he knew 
more of the details which now escapes me.  K3 027 also had the original 
makers plate from Jerry Goguen's K3 028 nailed on to the bottom of one of 
the floorboards.  I tried for years to get  this out of Bill but  never 
succeeded.  I don't know the details but the plate has now been reunited 
with K3-028.  I never saw the car but Jerry Goguen did see it in the mid 
70's.

    Cheers,

Chris Nowlan
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "TOM METCALF" <mgtom at zoominternet.net>
To: <TATERRY at aol.com>; <mg-mmm at autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, December 05, 2008 11:46 AM
Subject: Re: [Mg-mmm] K3027


> Terry, this is the myserious "Bill Hill" K3. Bill Hill was actually a 
> machinist near Chicago who had done some work on the car. I got a fone 
> call a few years ago from a guy in Chicago who owned a Midget. He asked me 
> if I wanted to buy an original magnesium Marshall s/c from a K3, plus the 
> bonnet panels. I ended up buying both and passed the blower on to K3015.
>
> Six months later I got a call from Chris Leydon asking if I knew the 
> whereabouts of a blower and bonnet set from a K3. Couldn't believe it. 
> This was the original stuff from K3027 that I had. Fred Simeone had 
> purchased the elusive K3 from a resto shop in Canada, where it had been 
> for decades under MMM radar. Bill Hill either owned or worked at the 
> Chicago machine shop and when it closed some fellow found this stuff 
> buried that I bought. Not sure how his name became associated with K3027 
> but he was never the owner. Fred has supposedly restored the car but I 
> have not heard from him for a few years. He's a brain surgeon in Phila and 
> he's had other cars at Amelia but I've never actually seen him there.
>
> tommmmmmmmmmm
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <TATERRY at aol.com>
> To: <mg-mmm at autox.team.net>
> Sent: Friday, December 05, 2008 11:13 AM
> Subject: [Mg-mmm] K3027
>
>
>> Mike Hawke reports in the Sept. Safety Fast that this car is now on 
>> display
>> in the Simeone Foundation Museum, Philadelphia.  Apparently hidden away 
>> since
>> 1953.....does anyone know who owns it and where its been?
>>
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