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“He was just another townie around here,” Rapphahn tells PEOPLE. “He wasn’t Mr. Hollywood. When we had done his motorcycle … he would stop into the garage here, and we were actively making plans to do some work on some of his vintage cars.”
Williams, 71, had a significant vintage car collection, according to Rapphahn, which included a 1950s Chevy Apache truck and an early 1970s Oldsmobile.
“We would just run into him in town and shoot the shit with him, talk about movies and music and cars and motorcycles and trucks,” he added. “Just every time we would talk, he was just always funny and just good-natured and asked you how you’re doing with genuine interest in the people that he was talking to."
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Rapphahn is among many family members,former colleaguesandfriendswho havepaid their respectsto Williams in the days after his sudden death.
“It has been said that we are all just passing time and occupy our chair very briefly,”Tom Selleck, 78, wrote in a statement to PEOPLE. “My friend treat was aptly named and occupied his chair so well. I will miss him but I will not forget him. Well done, my friend.”
source: people.com
