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Three things we apperceive about the actual post-war aeon in the United States: One, sports cars were hot. Two, you could accomplish annihilation out of fiberglass. Three, if you awash a cast that didn’t accept a sports car, you fabricated one yourself. That’s the adventure abaft the Woodill Wildfire, a different sports car based on a custom hot rod anatomy and Willys active gear. It’s accustomed with actuality the aboriginal complete fiberglass car awash in the United States. This 1952 Woodill Wildfire is up for auction in New Jersey.
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1953 Woodill Wildfire Values | Hagerty Valuation Tool® | 1953 wildfire sports carBlanchard Robert “Woody” Woodill had a Dodge and Willys dealership in Downey, California amid the years of 1952 and 1958. His abundance was in Downey, California, aloof 13 afar from city Los Angeles. We can alone doubtable that he saw all kinds of celebrities active Jaguars and Mercedes SLs at the time, and capital a allotment of that action.
Woodill got in blow with Bill Tritt of Glasspar Corporation, who hand-laid the fiberglass body, and at the aforementioned time was architecture his own fiberglass sports car, the Glasspar G2.
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The anatomy was complete by acclaimed hot rod architect Shorty Post at Post Anatomy Shop in Orange, California. According to a 1952 commodity in Road & Track, the anatomy offered “no weight saving,” but “it does accept advantages in the amount of able pedal room, affluence of assembly, and versatility.”
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Worldwide Auctioneers Auburn 2012 - Auction Report | 1953 wildfire sports carThe abeyance was absolutely accepted Willys Jeepster issue, with a arbor advanced blade bounce suspension, and a Willys solid arbor in the rear.
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All active accessory was abreast Willys, including the 161 cubic-inch F-head engine. The agent was able with a amateur carburetor assorted fabricated alone for the Wildfire.
Production was abundantly low. Woodill congenital aloof three in 1953, and amid seven and 11 the afterward year. Nevertheless, the Woodill Wildfire is accustomed with actuality the aboriginal complete car accessible in the States — if not the apple — with a anatomy fabricated absolutely of fiberglass.
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Along with the complete car, Woodill awash Wildfires as kits, so you could go basics and set them up with whatever agent you happened to accept laying around. The Road & Track commodity shows one with a Ford flathead mill.
Woodill was anything, he was a adamant promoter. Through assorted contacts, he managed to assassinate a one-man PR attack that resulted in seeing his ultra-low assembly sports car featured in not one, but three above Hollywood pictures.
It appeared in the Tony Curtis blur Johnny Dark…
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…the Rock Hudson cine Written on the Wind…
…and the Danny Kaye cine Knock on Wood.
The archetype actuality looks to be in absolutely appropriate condition, assuming 65,000 afar on the Art Deco Willys odometer. It’s for auction at a best car dealership in New Jersey, featuring a aeon actual Oregon authorization plate.
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