1956 Woodill Wildfire sports car. Restoration project. Ford 302 hookers headers

1956 Woodill Wildfire. Rebuilt Ford 302, rebuilt c4 auto trans, new drive shaft, Ford 8.8 rear end. Brand new disk brakes all around.
One of the first fiberglass cars built out of Downey California.
Picture of finished cars are what it will look like when completed
The Woodill Wildfire rode the lip of a wave sweeping the nation in the early 1950s. Sports cars had been absent from the scene for too long. The great makers of the classic era - Auburn, Duesenberg, Marmon and Stutz – were all pulled under by the Great Depression. The 1940s were for the most part consumed by war and its aftermath. Little energy remained for the frivolity of sports cars. After the war, as U.S. servicemen began to return home, they brought with them a taste for those fast, minimalist machines - Morgans, Singers, Rileys and Triumphs –they had spent their leaves flogging through the English countryside. Returning home to America in the late 1940s, they found a dearth of such sporting machinery. Detroit was busy filling America’s pent up demand for cars, any cars, with stodgy old sedans based on pre-war designs. Returning G.I.s turned to hot-rodding to fill their need for speed…as long as it was in a straight line. For those who insisted on more refinement, a few British makers, namely MG and Jaguar, were there to sell their more sophisticated ware. Unfortunately, these offerings proved poorly suited for America’s open spaces. By the dawn of the 1950s, the time became right for an all-American sports car.

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