Wild Willie's arm for sale.

Here's a cool auction for wild Willie Borsch's left arm.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/WILD-WILLIE...Parts_Accessories&vxp=mtr&hash=item4d02d09734

 

hope i never need one, but if i did i would buy a new one.

 

WOW! Really....I need To drink moore!11!!!
People sell this shi.....stuff!
I need to drink more.........

 

I knew he drove the altered with one hand, but never knew he carried it over as a joke to the other cars. Very funny.

Don

 

I need an ARM and a leg!

 

never knew this

 

I wonder what Mousie thinks about this?

 

I bid on it just to be part of history!

 

Me too! I was outbid at $200.

 

If it was Willie's Balls I would have bid higher!

 

I just pushed it North of $400.00

 

Push it North of a Arm & a Leg and get me off the hook!

 

Should he give it away?

 

If anything, it should be donated to a drag racing museum.
Keep his memory dignified.
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Yeah, what about dignity?!? Listen to the guy whose avatar is a cartoon cat cupping his balls and smoking a doobie. Lol (Just playing, Rocky. I agree with what you're saying to a point. )

Open question... Purely hypothetical. So somebody hands YOU the arm of "Wild Willie"... What would YOU do with it? As a fan, hot rodder, collector, or a guy trying to feed his family, what would you individually do with it? The guy that places the highest bid for it obviously wants it the most, for whatever reason. With what this piece of history will probably end up selling for, I'm sure he'll appreciate it and know best what to do with it. Perhaps he will donate it to a museum. Or maybe he'll use it as a Halloween decoration. Who knows! But I can't fault the seller for trying to make some $$$ off of it if he himself doesn't appreciate it for what it is.

Would it be any more (or less) dignified if it was sold at an auction house? Or an estate sale?

 

Morbid and funny at the same time

 

Yeah,...whatever.
Some things just strike me as being wrong.

 

Dignity has nothing to do with this. A museum would charge admission to see the peice. I have no problem with a private collector buying it, it's been lost to the years for years, at least this way it will be in circulation as it were.

Heck If I had the expendable cash I would buy the thing just as a cool racing curiosity....

 

Maybe. But let's say it was being sold as part of his estate at some fancy auction house. Say some guy bids, oh, I dunno, $20 large. Is that any less wrong? I guess I'm just wondering if the big offense is that it's being sold on eBay and not in some big, classy, wine and cheese auction for millionaires.

I'd also be careful if I was the seller, since there might be an issue as to whether or not it is even his to sell. Like you said, it's a piece of history. If Wild Willie has any surviving family (son, Robert) they might be able to claim it as part of his estate, since it can be proven that it was his personal property, regardless of where he "left" it. That could potentially bar the sale of the arm and get it to a museum where it belongs.

EDIT; Was there any "trademarking" of the arm? It might even say something about it being a "trademark of Wild Willie" or "trademark left arm reproduced with permission" somewhere on the Revell model kit box. If it is trademarked property, well, could open a whole different can of worms... I have a call out to a buddy of mine on the west coast. He has THOUSANDS of unbuilt model kits in his collection. I've asked him if he has this particular model, and if he could send me a copy of the licensing credits from the side of the box. I'm very curious at this point.

 

Yep. Some RICH cat (pun) should throw down some cash, then donate (tax write off) it to a museum.

 

I wonder...

 

my bet is a museum, or a representative of, will or is bidding on it.

 

My bet is that its just a scam......seriously doubt that they took his arm before cremation

 

It was just a prop, genius. It wasn't really a prosthetic arm. No more a part of him than the steering wheel of his car was.

When he drove his altered, he would lock his left hand firmly in the door pull and drive it one-handed. It was just his trademark driving style.

 

It's a FAKE! It's a carryover from his Fuel altered days when he would drive one handed. It's NOT his real arm. LOL. Ragtop beat me to it.

 

Just spit coffee all over my key board. That my friend was good!!!!!!!!!

 

Here's a GREAT link with a few funny stories about Wild Willie. I'm sure there are PLENTY out there, but this one will give anyone who has never heard of him a pretty good feel for who he was and what he was all about.

http://home.comcast.net/~originalhiwayman/

 

If I found it I'd have it on eBay too! The seller sure likes to type, but that is a good thing, the more info on a piece of racing memoribila the better. I hope it sells well, if the winner desides to put in a museum, or on a shelf fine, I never knew the thing existed until 15 minutes ago. Bob

 

You would need a dump truck for those.