Mecum Pontiac Super Duty's

[Postsedan]

Paul,

Nice write up....with lots of interesting facts.

The cars were stunning in person....here are a few more pics.



Love the Post car.

Dan.

[Postsedan]

Engine.




Dan.

[Postsedan]

Arnie Beswick pointing out the details



Dan.

[Postsedan]

Last one.



Dan.

[DarrenX33]

You forgot to mention that you got yelled at.

Great picture!

[olredalert]

Paul,

------I got to know Bill Packer (son of the Packer Pontiac) when Jim Gessner and I sold a Corvette for him. He now owns a Cadillac store in Flint and is a great guy. Im sure he will be interested in what the swiss-cheese car brought as he is still a gearhead. He has a number of very nice mid-year Vettes and absolutely stunning boats (floating muscle, I guess you would say)...........Bill S

[markjohnson]

I'm kinda sad that the Randy Williams Super Duty collection was broken up. I know they're just cars but it would have been nice to see the ultimate examples of Pontiac's racing efforts stay together. Sort of like breaking up a litter of cute puppies. I think the cars were a bargain compared to what a single Hemi Cuda Convt. can cost these days. That Tempest station wagon is just remarkable but that black '63 Catalina sedan just beckons to me! There's so many special parts on those cars that it's just unbelievable the efforts that Pontiac put into engineering those factory race cars. They really wanted to win on Sunday. Can you even imagine what would have been released in 1964-5 if the GM racing ban would not have gone into effect in 1963?

[bruno17]

I was just gettin' ready to bid when someone told me that they wouldn't qualify for "pure stock" drags.
Something about them being considered one offs and havin' all the mopar and bowtie boys boycott any future events.................so I said forget it.

[csx289]

I too was sad to see the collection split up.

Scott Tiemann is the best Pontiac restorer we will ever see, hands down, bar none. He and Randy were great friends and he loves these cars like you would imagine for a guy that had 6000 hours +/- of his life sitting there in the 4 cars he restored. Yes, he gets paid, but nobody is more of a car guy than Scott.

I was fine until I went to check on him right before they drove the cars in and he was (rightfully) welling up with tears. We all wanted the cars to stay together. But what I told Scott, and what I truly believe, is that no matter what, what Randy Williams envisioned and Scott helped him build will live forever - together or apart. The cars are art, plain and simple. Randy's vision and Scott's talent would blow anybody away. To think that Randy found out he had a brain tumor and he dropped everything to take his last 5 years and build these cars is a testament to what a true car guy and Pontiac lover he was. He wasn't taking them with him, he did this for US.

The next time you see any one of the Williams cars, just think about the dedication involved. While we can't thank Randy, if you happen to see Scott at a show, shake his hand and thank him for dedicating his life to restoring cars like Randy's. It will mean a lot to him. The cars always get the glory, but cars don't find owners, they don't find parts, and they don't slave over themselves and haul themselves to shows for us to see.

I have never, in all my years of going to auctions and watching cars sell, looked around when I was on the stage and saw so many people crying and trying to hold themselves together. It was an emotional sale and rightfully so. You could feel that these 5 cars were more than "just cars". And you couldn't help but feel a little sad that this wasn't where Randy saw these cars being when he dreamed of having the finest Super Duty collection in the world. They weren't meant to be on an auction stage.

My hats off to the Williams family and may the cars live on.And kudos to Dana Mecum for handling this sale with the tact and respect it deserved. Anybody that was there heard it in his voice and saw it in the tears he shed after the last car sold. How many auctioneers would stop an auction to huddle with the family and make sure the sale was what they wanted? I don't think we will ever see a sale like this ever again. I'm glad I was there.

Colin

[Belair62]

Would have loved to bring home that 61 dammit...