CYNHO -- Woodill Wildfire

It's not often that you hear of a car dealer founding his own company, but that is what happened with Blanchard 'Woody' Woodill.  He was a Dodge and Willys dealer in Downey, California, and he decided to make a special sports car company.  So, in 1952, the Woodill Wildfire was introduced.  His original plan was to make some factory cars and sell the others as kit cars, but that didn't work out, and as far as we know, only 9 were actually made at the factory.  The Wildfire used a fiberglass body from Glasspar, a speedboat company later to be renowned for its fiberglass expertise.  This was on 1952, remember, two whole years before the fiberglass-bodied Corvette came out, and more than half a decade before fiberglass kit cars became popular.  The Woodill Wildfire wasn't especially popular, and only around 290 kit cars were built, which makes the Wildfire a very rare car, the factory-built version being even rarer.  But even rarer than the Wildfire kit car is the Woodill Brushfire.  No, it's not another kit car that Woodill made before the company folded in 1956.  No, the Brushfire was a kiddy car.  That's right, a pedal-driven kiddy car.  No word is given on how many of these little guys were built, but Ill bet they're rarer than the Wildfire kit car.