MIKE LOVE - CHUCK WILLIAMS "BB1" - THE BEACH BOYS CONCERT AT THE SANTA BARBARA BOWL 5-28-12

First view of the Beach Boys Concert at the Santa Barbara Bowl with BB1.

Mike Love asks Chuck Williams BB1 a couple of questions from the stage, at the Santa Barbara Bowl Monday, Memorial Day, during their 50 Year Reunion Tour.  Chuck had picked Mike Love, Al Jardine and Bruce Johnston up in his 1975 Rolls Royce with the license plate, BB1.....then parked the car right in front of the Bowl during the concert.  Mike Love makes reference to it at the beginning of the concert. (click on youtube icon to enlarge picture so you can read the ticker tape of Mike Love talking to BB1.)

More stories and pictures to come so stay tuned....

The Beach Boys new album That's Why God Made The Radio.  The Beach Boys are singing, Isn't it Time, off the album in the video with BB1.

Tribute to the Beach Boys with Al Jardine and Chuck Williams BB1 at the very end,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SV3f0yklwGc    

Chuck Williams-BB1 with his car collection.

Noel A. Williams son, Chuck Williams, aka BB1, does a cosmetic restoration on his father's 1975 Rolls Royce, 12 years after his fathers death.

His fathers Rolls was untouched for 12 years.

unveiling of the Rolls.

Chuck makes the decision to bring the Rolls Royce, back to it's glory days.

1975 Rolls Royce, Silver Shadow, LWB.  Collage's of Chuck Williams car collection, by Charles Abrams Photography.

Chuck bought this 74 Alfa Romeo Spider Veloce, new, in 1974 and still has it in his car collection today.  It has been shown several times, at the Concours Italiano and other venue's across the country.  The Alfa has won best Spider, and is known as the Pearl.  It is Chuck's personal favorite.


Chuck had this 1965 Factory 5 racing Cobra, with it's Roush 402R, 525 HP and 515 lbs of torque, built by Joe Cusumano and painted by Red Dog Jones.  The car has won numerous awards and goes 0 to 60 in 3.3 seconds. Also one of Chuck's personal favorites.





Stay tuned this week as my cousin, Chuck Williams of REEEEEL Convertibles and Steve Snyder, of http://www.vaultcars.com/http://www.vaultcars.com/ 
discuss Tom Lyle Williams, 1940 Packard Victoria, built by the custom body builders Bohman & Schwartz.  Steve Snyder's father,  is the owner of the car today. 

          

The Gatsby lifestyle during the 1970s.

 "Can't repeat the past?... Why of course you can!" 

 F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby.

Noel A. Williams, sitting in his brother Dicks, Excalibur. This picture was taken at Dick and Ann's estate in Boca Raton, Florida in the late 1970s.

Noel A.Williams, during the shooting of, Goodbye Norma Jean, in 1975.  Picture was taken at his cousin Bill Williams estate, Casa de Guillermo, in Palm Springs California.

Noel A. and Jean Williams, in their 1975 Rolls, with Mickey Mouse in the back seat.

Noel A. with his Rolls Royce, a gift to himself for his 50th Birthday.

For the Williams boys, a longing to relive the golden years of the 1920s, 30s and 40s, played out, by creating individual identities, that included luxury automobiles, beautiful estates and the freedom to do what ever they dammed well pleased, during the 1970s.    

GATSBY - The American Dream - Beautiful Cars and Homes.

Great Gatsby, Rolls Royce.

 Dick Williams, his brother, Noel A. Williams and cousin Bob (Williams) Haines, loved beautiful automobiles, reminiscent of their uncle Tom Lyle Williams, custom made gorgeous Packard's. 

Bob (Williams) Haines and Dick Williams, with their Gatsbyesque Excalibur's, in Boca Raton, Florida.

Noel A. Williams, bought this beautiful, 1975 Rolls Royce, for his 50th Birthday.  It looked spectacular parked in front of the Bernard Maybeck estate, in Monticito California in the 1970s.