Speaking of beautiful 61 Venturas........
 

Here's a link to one I found for sale. WOW!!


http://www.rayskillmanclassiccars.co...sp?VIN=1961389

275K!Very nice car.Tom

275k? Holy crap !

i didn't see anything about 275k? tom, was that the offer price? hmm....

It's a beautiful car but I think he got a little carried away with the description...

389/425 HP TROPHY TRI-POWER V-8 ENGINE

EVERY NUT, BOLT AND ITEM ON THIS CAR IS N.O.S.

Anyone know who did the restoration?

The car looks like the one from the Randy Williams Collection that was sold at the Mecum fall auction last year. If so a very very nice car, as were the rest of the cars the family had there.

Ken

I think a Scott Tiemann restored it ? if it is the car from the Williams Collection.

These were talked about before:

http://forums.maxperformanceinc.com/...randy+williams

Stuart- i had to read your post 3 times before i realized the humor. i went to a soccer coaches clinic at city hall tonight and they were talking about epi-pens... she described the action as "quick and fast"

It does look like the Randy Williams '61. http://www.mecumauction.com/auctions...D=CH1006-42978

I absolutely LOVE that year and model... One of the finest designs ever IMHO.

I called the guy,no alu bumper,not the Williams car as best I could find out.Nice but without any documented race history and bucket seats might be a little high.He did say it was built with NOS parts,NO repo stuff.FWIW.I like mine even more now!LOL

Yeah, me too!! LOL. I should have bought the car from my buddy and did what you are doing. The best part being that I could have done a smok'n paint job myself and really upped the value of the car. Oh well. BTW, did you put a "driver" paint job on it, like you talked about? Hard to tell in the pics..............

just had a detail shop put a pad on it,came out GREAT!Just years of road grime.Tom

OK,been thinking a lot about this car,VERY NICE,beyond nice,BUT, what would I rather have,this car or mine with 233K in the glove box!LOL,Tom

i think that thought exercise is moot until anyone finds out what someone is actually willing to pay. i am not an expert, but that seems like a steep asking price. your price of $42 however seems very fair, particularly as i'm knee deep in a project right now. with that said.... i hope that both your car and that 275k car sell for as much as possible.

actually there is recent history for 61 Venturas going for the 250-300K range,all had serious race history like a Arni car.Tom

i would put a small amount of money on this car being the one from dad's collection. too many things look familiar for it to be a coinidence.

either way the '61 from dad's collection was not restored by scott. it was purchased from ed giolma. if memory serves, ed did the restoration himself.

jerod

Jerod, thanks for the info. If anyone knows how to restore a '61, it would be Ed Giolma. Do you recall when your dad bought that car? I met Ed at the POCI nationals in 2001; he had a couple cars there and I seem to remember one of them had a SD389 in it although I can't remember if it was a red one...I'd have to dig through old photos and see if I have any pictures.

Mid-late 90's maybe. I'll have to check.

Ok, mom says that is the car. Dad bought it from Ed in '96