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A Car Guy's Car Guy.(NEWS)
THERE ARE TALKERS, AND then there are doers. Jim Williams, who died at age 60 on Aug. 26 in Rochester, N.Y., was a doer. And in the typically incisive words of former AutoWeek editor in chief George Damon Levy, Jim's "fingerprints were all over the car world, because he was "a car guy's car guy.
You might have known Jim through his racing. He built and raced everything from lawn mowers to sprint cars, vintage sports cars to motorcycles. Or maybe you ran into him at the Rochester Institute of Technology, where he earned a degree in advertising and art. He was equally gifted as a writer and an artist, and his first job out of college was at Car and Driver, where he spent seven years as an editor and art director.
If you've been reading this magazine long enough, you also encountered him in 1986. Levy asked me to help redesign the publication then, and I turned instantly to Jim, who did the graphics while I did the editorial stuff, just as we had done for Cycle Guide in 1978.
But it was Jim's career in advertising that really put his fingerprints all over the car world. Whenever an ad agency needed a ...
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