David Besser dropped us an email after reading about the Woodill Wildfire in December’s Lost & Found.
“I have the pleasure of owning Woody Woodill’s personal car, #WW010, which he owned from 1954 to 1965. He took it to many shows and was able to get it into some movies. It was in the 1956 movie Written on the Wind in which actress Dorothy Malone’s character, Marylee Hadley, drove the car. Malone went on to win the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance. The car was also a part of the ‘Plastics-World’s Fair and Trade Exposition’ in Los Angeles where it won the motor revue excellence award in 1955. All the Wildfires featured different grilles, headlamps, bumpers, windshields, etc. My car has a flathead Lincoln engine with Fenton aluminum heads and intake, and Fenton headers. After the show circuit and movie appearances were over, Woody parked the car until 1965 when he sold it. Currently, the car shows 10,000 miles on the odometer,” David says.
We also heard from Steve Cowdin of Larkspur, Colorado, who happens to own a different Woodill Wildfire movie car, the long lost “Idaho Special” from the 1954 movie Johnny Dark. It’s currently undergoing a full restoration to bring it back to its movie car configuration. The body was recently mounted onto a specially designed rotisserie as part of its restoration process.
Photo: Provided by David Besser
We also heard from Steve Cowdin of Larkspur, Colorado, who happens to own a different Woodill Wildfire movie car: the long-lost “Idaho Special” from the 1954 movie Johnny Dark. It’s currently undergoing a full restoration to bring it back to its movie car configuration. The body was recently mounted onto a specially designed rotisserie as part of its restoration process.
“This car has been lost for many decades due to the fact that the factory did a restyle on the car to experiment with a Corvette wraparound windshield,” Steve says.
After the car came into Steve’s possession, it took a while to verify that it was the Idaho Special. With the help of some experts and many movie photos, including the car on its side, the positive ID was confirmed.
“It matches down to the many crummy welds, phony dual exhaust hangers, filled-in windshield mounting holes from filming, and so forth,” Steve adds.
We’re eager to see more restoration photos and the car when it’s finished. If only a young Tony Curtis could take the wheel.
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