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    JON WILLIAMS

    Mar 25, 2020 5 minutes
    STORY SIMON MAJOR

    Part 2

    LAST month we brought you the first instalment of our glimpse into Jon Williams’s car life and the diverse projects he has undertaken. Make, model and/or sporting application are no boundaries for Jon, and it’s safe to say that his car obsession rivals even the most ardent automotive nut. “All I ever dreamed of was having a car and just making stuff,” he says. “As a kid I would sit in front of an old black-and-white TV and immerse myself in Rallycross action from Calder and the annual Bathurst race. If it had cars, I was down for it.”

    JON’S family moved to Belgrave in 1974, and that’s when his car obsession really took hold. “Guys like Dennis Kilner, who owned the local milk bar in

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