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The Woodill Motor Company, Inc. was an American automobile dealer and the manufacturer in Downey (California) was established. The founder and owner was Blanchard Robert "Woody" Woodill . Initially, Dodge and Willys cars were sold .

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1955 Woodill Wildfire at Retro Classics 2018

The Wildfire model, manufactured between 1952 and 1956, is a two-seater roadster . It has a GRP body from Glasspar , which was the first company to offer such bodies for retrofitting on older chassis for US $ 650. Woodill was the first manufacturer to use the body for a production car and to order 100 pieces in a slightly modified form. This makes the Woodill Wildfire the first complete GRP automobile , even before the Chevrolet Corvette or the Kaiser Darrin .

The wheelbase was 2565 mm, the total length 4115 mm. The car was driven normally by a side-valve six-cylinder in-line engine of Willys with 2638 cc, 90 bhp (66 kW) at 4,200 min -1 gave, but the vehicle was also available with other engines. The maximum speed with the Willys engine was 193 km / h.

About 300 copies were built, only 15 of them as finished vehicles and 285 as kits. There was also a kids' car called the Brushfire .

Glasspar used the same body from 1954–1955 for its own roadster, the G-2 with refurbished V8 engines from Ford or Mercury .

literature

  • John Gunnell (Ed.): Standard Catalog of American Cars 1946-1975 . 4th edition. Krause Publications, Inc, Iola, Wisconsin 2002, ISBN 0-87349-461-X (English).
  • George Nick Georgano : A History of Sports Cars . EP Dutton & Co. New York (1970). ISBN 0-17-148024-4 .
  • George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 3: P – Z. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 1763-1764. (English)

Web links

Commons : Woodill Motor  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d John Gunnell (Ed.): Standard Catalog of American Cars 1946-1975 . 4th edition. Krause Publications, Inc, Iola, Wisconsin 2002, ISBN 0-87349-461-X , pp. 872 (English).
  2. ^ A b John Gunnell (Ed.): Standard Catalog of American Cars 1946–1975 . 4th edition. Krause Publications, Inc, Iola, Wisconsin 2002, ISBN 0-87349-461-X , pp. 836 (English).
  3. ^ GN Georgano: A History of Sports Cars . EP Dutton & Co. New York (1970). ISBN 0-17-148024-4