The Woodill Wildfire was an American sports car built by
Dodge and
Willys
Willys (pronounced , "Willis" )
was a brand name used by Willys–Overland Motors, an American automobile company, founded by John North Willys. It was best known for its design and production of World War II era and later military jeeps (MBs ...
dealer Blanchard Robert "Woody" Woodill from 1952 to 1958 in
Downey Downey may refer to:
People
* Downey (surname)
*Robert Downey Jr.
Places
* Downey, California, US
* Downey, Idaho, US
* Downey, Iowa, US
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* W. & D. Downey, photographic studio
* Downey Studios, created out of a former Boeing plant
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, California. The Wildfire used a
Glasspar The Glasspar boat-building company was started in 1947 when Bill Tritt began building small fiberglass boat hulls in his Costa Mesa, California fiberglass shop.
Origins
Bill Tritt had a keen interest in boats and Automobile, cars before World War I ...
fiberglass
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body and is credited with being the first complete fiberglass car available with approximately 15 produced and another 285 sold as kits. A child's version of the vehicle called the Brushfire was also available.
In September 2012 a Woodill Wildfire was featured on the Discovery Channel TV show ''Fast N' Loud''. According to the show, theirs was one of only nine factory-built Wildfires still known to exist.
The show's host sold the car to a collector for $100,500. Payment for the car consisted of ten $10,000 stacks of $100 bills and a Large denominations of United States currency, 1934 $500 bill, the latter of which in itself is worth more than its face value.
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References
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Woodill Wildfire
Sports cars
Defunct motor vehicle manufacturers of the United States