Thinking back on his 50 years in business in Napa, Lee Williams observed, “You can do anything you want to — if you really want to.”
Lee Williams operates Williams Automotive and Transmissions with his son, Mike Williams, and six employees.
Describing the early days of his company, Williams said, “I went into business Dec. 4, 1961, right after I got out of the Air Force. Things were a lot different around here then. I started my business on Old Sonoma Road, and when I chose this location in 1967, people said to me, ‘Lee, do we have to drive all the way out into the country now, to get our cars worked on?’ You see, in 1967, there was hardly anything down here other than my building, except for swamps across the street and the old ice house in back. That ice house building is now one of my three shop buildings; I service motor homes in there.” ...
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