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The abundant optimismthat prevailed in the U.S. afterwards World War II could be summed up in the accepted phrase, “Do it yourself.” Want your own sports car? Can’t allow a Jaguar, a Corvette, or an MG? Well then, anatomy your own!

Editor’s Note: This adventure originally appeared in the Summer 2014 affair of Motor Trend Classic.

That was the abstraction abaft the Woodill Wildfire, a car that began with a U.S. Army above who capital a air-conditioned ride, an adroit California baiter builder, a abreast artificial actual that afflicted everything…and a advantageous break.

When Chevrolet’s Corvette angled in 1953, its GM Motorama-inspired auto anatomy was fabricated of a almost new “miracle” actual alleged glass-reinforced artificial (GRP), bigger accepted as fiberglas. (Fiberglass spelled with two ‘s’s didn’t appear until later.) While it was one of the aboriginal accumulation fiberglass cars, the Corvette was not the aboriginal use of artificial blended for an auto body. Henry Ford had continued been amorous with the automated abeyant for soybean plastics. Ford Motor Aggregation congenital a baby fiberglass car ancestor aloof afore the war, and there’s a archetypal photo of Henry angrily wielding an axe to a ancestor soybean artificial ’41 Ford decklid to prove its backbone and resilience.

The burning charge for war actual affected a basal abeyance of the Detroit accumulation curve in 1942 and put the anathema on any annual Ford had for artificial cars. Aback hostilities ended, there was an astronomic pent-up demand. With new cars in abbreviate supply, bodies began customizing old ones. Fiberglass was accessible to assignment with, authoritative it a accustomed actual for accessible guys who capital to anatomy their own cars.

The growing acceptance of European sports cars, and the accelerated dispatch of enthusiast publications such as Motor Trend, Alley & Track, Motorsport, and Dispatch Age, apparent every car addict in America to beat individuals and companies that offered agitative busline alternatives. These baby automakers didn’t charge big-ticket applique to aftermath metal anatomy parts. Adorable artificial bodies could be laid up by hand, and produced cheaply and quickly.

We met Fred Roth of Thousand Oaks, California, in these pages in 2013, with his affected Maverick roadster. Roth has a mini-museumful of aboriginal ’50s sports customs, including a Nash-Healey, a Muntz Jet, a Kaiser-Darrin, a Hudson Italia, and this glassy little two-seater, the Woodill Wildfire. Its curvaceous red anatomy is fabricated of fiberglass, while the driveline is a benumbed Willys six with headers and amateur carbs. Roth’s Woodill is the aboriginal ancestor Series 1 Wildfire.

Do you apperceive how accessible it is to anatomy a sports car? All you charge are bargain accepted car parts, a little imagination, some amplitude and your added time.

Over the years, Roth talked to aggregation architect Blanchard Robert “Woody” Woodill, his accent Howard Miller, and abounding of the aboriginal glass-bodied car pioneers. Another artificial car addict alleged Geoff Hacker lives in Tampa, Florida. A academy professor, Hacker’s active and well-researched Forgotten Fiberglass website delves into dozens of resin-wrapped rides you’ve never heard of, abounding of which he owns. Hacker strives to certificate these cars and their creators, and he finds and restores as abounding examples as he can.

The Woodill adventure begins with fiberglass avant-garde and baiter builder, Bill Tritt, in 1951. (See our aftereffect at the end of this story). Tritt congenital a one-off fiberglass anatomy for an army above that led to his creating the Glasspar G2 in 1952. Seeking a ‘glass anatomy supplier for his own sports car business, Woodill apprenticed with Tritt to anatomy his handsome Woodill Wildfire sports car.

Woody Woodill actually grew up in the car business. His dad’s car dealerships awash Maxwell, Overland, Willys-Knight, and eventually Dodge cartage in the southeast L.A. suburb of Downey. Woodill bought his father’s allotment of the business in 1948 and became the country’s youngest Dodge dealer. He acquired a Willys authorization and advised affairs himself a new Jaguar XK120, but his annual administrator talked him out of the Jaguar, adage that spares would be adamantine to get, the anatomy genitalia were adamantine to straighten, and there was the amount of those “wrong size” British Whitworth bolts. But Woody capital a sports car, and aback there was a Willys accumulation bulb in adjacent Maywood, he absitively to anatomy his own car application Willys components.

Woodill visited Tritt in May 1952 and committed to acquirement a brace of new Glasspar bodies for what would become the Series 1 Woodill Wildfire. For the chassis, Harold “Shorty” Post in Orange, California, supplied the simple but athletic angle-iron anatomy he was already architecture for Glasspar. The advanced abeyance came from a Willys Jeepster; the rear arbor was from a Willys Aero. The agent was the asperous Willys I-6. The aboriginal two Series 1 Wildfires acclimated basal Glasspar bodies. (Note: There may acquire been a third Series 1 and an added chassis.)

Woodill ordered changes to differentiate his Series 2 Wildfire from the Glasspar G2. Its awning was raised; a awning beat was added; the cowl was acclimatized with two humps, like an MG T-Series; and the windshield was changed. The rear fenders got Willys Aero taillights, and Jeepster bumpers were added. Woodill initially planned to anatomy aloof two examples, affairs one to a chump to advice pay for his own car.

The accommodation to antecedent bodies from the apprentice industry’s best accomplished architect was an adroit one. “I capital the doors, decklid, and awning to accessible and shut like those on a affection animate automobile,” Woodill said. “On Glasspar bodies, the doors abutting solidly, reminding you of the aperture on your refrigerator at home.”

Roth talked to Miller, Woodill’s “over-the-back-fence” acquaintance and a accomplished artisan who helped anatomy the aboriginal two Wildfires. “Howard did all the building; Woody was the promoter,” says Roth, who met with Miller and got to see his abundant scrapbook. “With all these specialty-type cars,” says Roth, “there’s the guy who has his name on it, who puts money abaft it, who gets all the glory. Afresh there’s a additional guy who absolutely knows what went on. That was Howard.”

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Woodill displayed his aboriginal completed car at the 3rd Annual Petersen Motorama in November 1952 at the Pan-Pacific Auditorium. A photo of a Glasspar G2 appeared in the appearance affairs in a two-page commodity alleged “Fabulous Fiberglas [sic],” accounting by MT managing editor Jim Potter. The subhead enthused: “Sports car builders about-face to new admiration material.” And the affection additionally showed a new Kaiser-Darrin, advised for Kaiser-Frazer by Howard “Dutch” Darrin, and a smaller, right-drive auto alleged the Vale, advised by Vale Wright of Berkeley, California, to fit an MG TC chassis. Added fiberglass-bodied cars at that appearance included a auto anatomy offered by the Atlas Fiber-glass Co. that resembled a Cisitalia 202. Showgoers were impressed.

But the best was acutely yet to appear for Woodill in December 1952. He told historian Michael Lamm that “…the Willys bodies heard about my car…came out from Toledo and looked at the Wildfire, and they aloof flipped. They accountant an airplane, and flew one of the cars aback to Toledo for their banker convention. They showed the car to all the dealers, who additionally addled over it.” Woodill may acquire been exaggerating, but the use of accepted Willys parts, readily accessible from the bounded accumulation plant, was a acute idea.

The Wildfire fabricated annual afresh in February 1953, aback Time annual ran a baby photo of the Series 2 with argument advertence that Wildfires would be accessible through Willys dealerships nationwide. But in talking with Time, Woody may acquire jumped the gun. One ages afterwards the commodity appeared, the annual appear a letter by Willys agent Gerry E. Lyons clearly disclaiming any affiliation with the Wildfire. Turns out, momentous contest were underway. In August 1952, the Kaiser-Frazer Corporation, best accepted for its banausic medium-priced sedans, purchased the absolute Willys company, and Henry Kaiser had already been alive with acclaimed artist Howard Darrin on a sleek, fiberglass-bodied sports roadster, with different sliding doors, to be alleged the Kaiser-Darrin. That put an end to Woodill’s project, as the aggregation didn’t charge two aggressive roadsters.

The irrepressible Woody wasn’t discouraged. It’s believed that Woodill congenital at atomic seven “factory” cars, but afterwards Willys and Kaiser merged, Woody began to anticipate there was added abeyant to advertise Wildfires nationally in kit form. He absitively to activity the Wildfire as a almost simple kit that could be congenital by do-it-yourselfers with a atom of automated skill, on either his anatomy or that of a ’39-’48 Ford.

Woodill’s timing was propitious. Across the country, customizing was growing in popularity. Abounding enthusiasts capital sports cars; there was a abundant accord of backyard building; and the Corvette was aloof arriving. Woodill wasn’t the sole architect of kit cars in basic form. Besides Tritt and his Glasspar, there were added than 30 others, including the Frazen, advised by the Ray Greene Aggregation in Ohio, to fit a Henry J. chassis; the La Sietta, by the Testaguzza Anatomy Aggregation (Ogden, Michigan) for a Chevrolet chassis; and the Grantham Stardust, from Los Angeles, in 1953, that looked a abundant accord like the Kaiser-Darrin.

Unfazed by all the competition, Woody set to assignment to accomplish the Wildfire alike added adorable (and practical). His Blazon 2 models were hardly longer, with a continued commuter cockpit the arch increase. The doorsills were aloft hardly and the doors were strengthened. The fiberglass anatomy carapace was acclimatized to accommodate a activity decklid, and a continental added annoy arise accustomed added allowance for luggage. Its knockoff hub abashed to acknowledge the gas accompaniment pipe.

Hacker addendum that Tritt acclimated this befalling to absolutely alter how Glasspar congenital its car bodies. The new Wildfire bodies were produced from abstracted molds—one for the capital body, and others for the hood, the trunk, and the doors. This bigger basic fit aback they were assembled, and this convenance was not adopted by best competitors until the backward 1950s.

Woodill articular that abounding do-it-yourselfers advantaged readily accessible acclimated Ford and Mercury accoutrement like the calmly souped-up flathead V-8. He acclimatized the architecture and the anatomy mounts so the fiberglass anatomy could be acclimated on a ’39-’48 Ford chassis, and the agent mounts were confused aback and acclimatized to acquire the accepted flathead V-8. With the agent setback, weight administration was about 50/50. Added engines could be acclimatized to fit. Woodill supplied a beneath driveline and remanufactured ambit rods, alike demography the banal Ford ambit rods in exchange). By 1954, it could acquire Ford’s brawl collective advanced abeyance setup.

Prices were reasonable. The Wildfire anatomy was $228 and buyers accustomed a $15 acclaim for the alternate ambit rods. At $995, the anatomy kit was the best big-ticket component. The 1953 amount was $1208; by ’54 the amount for the anatomy and anatomy had risen to $1617. The aggregation acknowledgment the actuality that a Wildfire could be homebuilt for about $2000 in parts, afterwards addition in the builder’s labor. Fully accumulated Wildfires amount $3260 in 1953, and Woodill approved to absorption bounded auto dealers in affairs cars (and kits) on a authorization basis, but that never came to pass.

Intent on alms a affection product, Woody Woodill told Lamm, “We had aluminum castings fabricated for the doors and awning latches, and we acclimated Chevrolet striker plates. We congenital our own castings so that aggregate opened and handled like a absolute automobile. I capital an auto — central aperture panels, acceptable latches on the doors and baggage compartment, that blazon of thing.”

Thanks to Railway Express, the almost failing fiberglass accoutrement and semi-complete or complete Woodill Wildfire “kits” could be alien nationwide. The unpainted bodies were transported in simple, open-sided crates fabricated from 2-by-4s. A folding canvas convertible top and a fiberglass auto were available. Buyers could custom-built accent instruments and added fittings. Ordering was simple. The applicant mailed a $495 drop to the Woodill Motor Company, and if he had an aboriginal Ford donor car, or the requisite Willys components, he could activate to abolish his old car anatomy while he accessible addition of a Woodill kit from Downey.

Woodill went to abundant lengths to advance the actuality that the Wildfire could be congenital in as little as 14 hours by two men accustomed with the process. He alike garnered a atom on the accepted aboriginal ’50s civic television appearance alleged “You Asked For It!” starring Art Baker. The affirmation of a Wildfire anatomy “proved” that the kit could be accumulated from a Ford Tudor to a active Wildfire in aloof 14 hours.

Of course, the “You Asked For It!” adventure had 12 men, who all seemed to be Woody’s employees, alive accompanying on the Wildfire conversion. A abutting attending at the six-minute TV articulation shows that some genitalia of the ratty ’46 Ford donor car were already unbolted, and the aggregation had aggregate it bare abutting at hand. It’s a anarchism to watch, with its stop-motion photography. Afterwards a affair spray-paint job, Woody himself is apparent active the completed Wildfire abroad in aloof four hours!

Closer to reality, Motor Trend ran a aesthetic of a 14-hour Wildfire anatomy with step-by-step photographs, illustrating that if you had aggregate ready, it was possible. But best DIY projects took six months or more.

The Wildfire’s success prompted Woodill to advertise his Dodge dealership and allot his time to this agitative new business. He congenital at atomic six active prototypes with Willys F-head, six-cylinder drivetrains. Afresh he accumulated what were believed to be seven complete cars forth with the auction of conceivably 100 or so anatomy kits. Hacker has amid 72 Glasspar G2s and 30 Wildfire cars and bodies.

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Woody accepted to be a actual acknowledged promoter, accepting his car into three movies: “Johnny Dark,” “Knock on Wood,” and “Written on the Wind.” The Wildfire appeared in Life, Newsweek, Pic, and best of the car magazines of that era.

Engine: 161.1-cu.in/2639-cc F-head, Willys I-6, 3×1-bbl Stromberg BX carburetors

Power and Torque: (estimated SAE gross) 115-hp @ 4200 rpm; 135 lb-ft @ 1800 rpm

Drivetrain: 3-speed automated w/overdrive, RWD

Brakes: Front: drum; Rear: drum

Suspension: front: high control-arms, arbor blade spring; rear: alive axle, blade springs

Dimensions: L: 162.0 in W: 65.0 in H: 52.0 in.

Weight: 1620 lb

Performance (est) 0-60 mph: 10.0 seconds

Top Speed: 115 mph

Price aback new: $3263

Frederick J. Roth of Thousand Oaks, California, his wife, Deanna, and their son, Chris, own a assembly of ’50s American sports cars including the Maverick custom we featured in MTC Summer/Fall 2013. “Foreign sports cars are a absolute brand unto themselves, fabricated with no anticipation whatsoever to animal comforts; to go fast, to be able to bend adamantine about corners on boxy anchorage in Europe. Americans absolutely weren’t that absorbed in accepting their necks snapped, and actuality aged about corners. They capital artery cruisers. The change of the American sports car, as I attending at it in the ’50s? They were congenital by companies with one anticipation in mind: to aces up women.”

WHY I LIKE IT

“It was declared to be a Willys sports car and that fits appropriate into my collection. It’s well-built, well-engineered, historically significant, and recognized, alike by Corvette people, as the aboriginal accumulation fiberglass sports car.”

WHY IT’S COLLECTIBLE

“They alone fabricated two prototypes that aboriginal year and my car is one of them. A lot of guys affirmation they acquire a factory-assembled Wildfire. If it doesn’t acquire a Willys engine, a Shorty Post frame, and Willys active gear, it’s a kit — except for the Buick-powered car. Howard Miller says my car was cardinal 2, and it went to Toledo. He accepted they alone bought six Willys engines: two for ’52 and four for ’53. Afterwards they did anatomy a few Ford-powered cars in-house.”

RESTORING/MAINTAINING

“The Wildfire was by far the easiest apology of any of my cars, because it was in abundant shape, the fit was perfect, and the bottle was done right, acknowledgment to Bill Tritt. Maintenance is easy.” BEWARE: It’s adamantine to authorize ethics with attenuate cars like this prototype. We acclaim soliciting estimates from admired appraisers.

EXPECT TO PAY

Low six figures.

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THEN: “Is there a bazaar for such a sports car, application banal ‘Detroit’ active gear? To be honest, we don’t know, but from the bona fide orders Woodill has stockpiled in his active bulb in Downey, we do accept the agitation has begun… alone time will accord the acknowledgment to this active independent.” — Jim Potter, Motor Trend, August 1953

NOW: The Wildfire has been auspiciously apparent at above Concours d’Elegance from Palo Alto and Thousand Oaks, to Pebble Beach. The bend of architecture a absolutely aggressive sports car at home, utilizing a abreast chassis, is around absurd today with the prevalence of assemblage anatomy construction, federal assurance requirements, and cyberbanking complexity. But 60 years ago, you could do it yourself, absolutely affordably, and about-face heads, in a Woodill Wildfire.

Simply speaking, bodies didn’t blitz abrupt into architecture kit cars. Americans had become agog about adventurous claimed cars. The Corvette had a bouldered alpha with its archaic 1953-1955 models. From 1956 onward, now with a brawny small-block V-8 and roll-up windows, the ‘Vette came into its own. Ford’s Thunderbird two-seaters from 1955-1957 additionally blanket some sales. Both Detroiters had the ability of GM and Ford abaft them, and they could be serviced at bounded dealerships. If you couldn’t anatomy your own Wildfire, or some added ‘glass kit, appropriately extenuative a bundle, you were bigger off affairs a new ‘Vette or ‘Bird. Although a Wildfire could be absolutely accurately built, it aloof wasn’t the aforementioned as accepting a factory-finished model.

We weren’t able to drive Roth’s Woodill Wildfire, but Michael Lamm collection this aforementioned car, pre-restoration, for Special-Interest Autos, aback in 1974. Here’s his take: “The Willys 6 springs to activity with a clear barrage and it absolutely sounds soupier than its 90-bhp (probably added so now because it has the 3-carb manifold). It feels soupier too, giving able dispatch to the 1620-lb roadster… (the) clutch, accelerator action, brakes and council are acutely ablaze and smooth. At speed, or during acceleration, the cockpit tends to be noisy, and the fiberglass anatomy seems to amplify agent and alley roar. You acquire to bark to backpack on a chat at 60-mph. With the full-race Willys 6 at 135-bhp, it charge acquire accustomed XK-120’s fits. Buick, Cad, Chrysler and benumbed Fords angry Wildfires into the Cobras of their day.”

Woody Woodill accomplished alms Wildfire kits in 1956, axis to architectural articles such as skylights, a few ancestor boats, and TV accessory accession dishes in Oregon. He was about 74 aback he died in 1989. In the accoutrements of plastic, Fred Roth’s admirable Woodill Wildfire and its few aggregation abide as a austere effort—a arch speedster that looked far added big-ticket and able than it was. We’re abiding Woody would’ve admired that.

Historians trace the ancestry of the fiberglass car anatomy chic to 1950 and a accomplished California baiter artist alleged Bill Tritt. He and Otto Bayer (from Wizard Boats) and Jerry Neiger ran a aggregation alleged Glasspar in Costa Mesa that produced fiberglass baiter hulls. Soon they acquired an auto client. Inspired by the Jaguar XK120, Army Above Kenneth Brooks, from adjacent Lido Island, capital an attractive, affordable custom car fabricated of calm components.

For his one-off sports car, Brooks acclimated a 1940 Willys anatomy with a 102-inch wheelbase. Its peppy, 134-cid four-cylinder engine, able with an alternative aluminum butt head, developed 66.5-bhp. The activity took about two years. The accomplished fiberglass-bodied roadster, alleged the Brooks Boxer, was abounding with XK120 administration cues. Seeing the abeyant for fiberglass car bodies, Tritt, who’d broadcast his growing operation with additional location, absitively to anatomy added anatomy shells based on the Boxer design.

But the Korean battle was on, and food of polyester adhesive and fiberglass mat were bare for the war effort. Seeking a adhesive supplier, Tritt collection the Brooks Boxer over to allocution to adjacent resin-producer Naugatuck Chemical, but aggregation adumbrative Bud Crawford said it was all activity to the military. Afresh Crawford spotted the blatant Brooks Boxer anchored abreast the loading berth and the bearings changed. Afterwards aggregation bang-up Earl Ebers got a ride in the car and abstruse that there ability be a affection in Activity annual on fiberglass-bodied cars, he agreed to angel the architecture of four added cars. Tritt now had money for anatomy bucks and molds, and affluence of Vibrin resin. He displayed the Boxer at the 2nd Annual Petersen Motorama in Los Angeles in November 1951 alongside several added fiberglass-bodied cars, including the Lancer by Eric Irwin, and the Crosley-based Wasp and its accumulation version, the Skorpion, by Ralph Roberts and Jack Wills.

Veteran boatbuilder Tritt was abiding there was a bazaar for fiberglass cars, and he knew how to atone for the material’s abridgement of strength. To anticipate abrasion area the artificial anatomy absorbed to the frame, Glasspar anchored in bend band and covered them with layers of fiberglass. Rubber grommets were acclimated at all adapter points, so fatigued bolts wouldn’t assignment their way through the fiberglass. To annual for abbreviating of up to 3 percent during curing, bodies were formed in one piece, the basis for the doors, hood, and decklid were anchored to the shell, and the panels were cut out afterwards the actual cured.

Although Naugatuck’s aboriginal car, dubbed the Alembic I (an inside-chemistry advertence to a beverage apparatus), was completed in almanac time, the aggregation wasn’t absorbed in architecture cars. It aloof capital to advertise adhesive by announcement the abstraction of a plastic-bodied car. So Naugatuck planned a big cross-country cruise to authenticate the backbone of Alembic I, with Ebers and his wife active from Costa Mesa to Philadelphia for the Civic Plastics Expo in mid-March, 1952. Earl broadcast columnist kits and the Activity annual commodity to all the newspapers in the bigger cities forth the way. Naugatuck PR man Bert McNomee recalls in an account with Geoff Hacker that in Meridian, Mississippi, the burghal editor asked to carbon the Activity photo of seven men continuing on the fenders and cowl of the car to authenticate the backbone of the fiberglass body. “Earl told them they had to booty off their shoes, so they wouldn’t blemish the paint, and up they got. They ran that account six columns advanced on the advanced page.”

In Philly, the ambassador accustomed the Alembic I. Seven General Motors engineers came bottomward to attending at the car. Bert recalled in an account with Hacker, “They hadn’t accustomed us the time of day before, and they hadn’t looked at the antecedent efforts we had put forward, but the Activity commodity accepted the atom that afire the activity of GM engineers and designers. They spent about a anniversary bottomward there with Ebers and Tritt, allurement about everything.”

The Corvette ancestor appeared at the Waldorf Astoria Motorama the afterward year, which is why the Corvette Museum has a affectation acquainted Tritt and Glasspar.

The Woodill Wildfire was the acme of aggregate Tritt and Woodill had learned. Glasspar G2s and Woodill Wildfires are assuredly advancing into their own as desirable,’50s-era collectibles.

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