Quadzilla
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A great Adelaidean died yesterday at age 90 at his Nth Adel home, after a long illness ... just as an FA18 flew over the nearby Clipsal V8 circuit.
Kym was a prominenet music and arts patron but his passion was motor-sport.
He was a RAAF pilot, loved motor-cycles, raced cars at a famous Adelaide suburban speedway, Rowley Park (and for many years was the promoter) and was a key figure in getting F1 racing to Adelaide in 1985.
RIP Kym.
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In 1983, Ash Wednesday fires Kym lost his home ... I dont think it was ever rebuilt - still standing as a shell near the TV Towers at Mt Lofty?
At Eurilla, Kym and Julie Bonython lost all of their worldly possessions, including antiques, paintings, and most regrettably, Kym Bonython's extensive Jazz Record collection. He saved only his favourite motorbIKE. At this time, this part of the Adelaide Hills was still not connected to the mains water supply, so all of the houses had only petrol powered pumps and rainwater tanks. "The petrol in the emergency pump just vaporised with the heat" said Kym Bonython. "We could do nothing except watch the place burn".
Kym was a prominenet music and arts patron but his passion was motor-sport.
He was a RAAF pilot, loved motor-cycles, raced cars at a famous Adelaide suburban speedway, Rowley Park (and for many years was the promoter) and was a key figure in getting F1 racing to Adelaide in 1985.
RIP Kym.
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In 1983, Ash Wednesday fires Kym lost his home ... I dont think it was ever rebuilt - still standing as a shell near the TV Towers at Mt Lofty?
At Eurilla, Kym and Julie Bonython lost all of their worldly possessions, including antiques, paintings, and most regrettably, Kym Bonython's extensive Jazz Record collection. He saved only his favourite motorbIKE. At this time, this part of the Adelaide Hills was still not connected to the mains water supply, so all of the houses had only petrol powered pumps and rainwater tanks. "The petrol in the emergency pump just vaporised with the heat" said Kym Bonython. "We could do nothing except watch the place burn".