{"id":494433,"date":"2015-05-01T00:10:36","date_gmt":"2015-05-01T00:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=8510"},"modified":"2023-12-31T20:46:45","modified_gmt":"2023-12-31T20:46:45","slug":"1953-johnny-dark-woodill-wildfire-idaho-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/1953-johnny-dark-woodill-wildfire-idaho-special\/","title":{"rendered":"1953 Johnny Dark Woodill Wildfire \u201cIdaho Special\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Woodill Wildfire \u201cIdaho Special\u201d<\/h2>\n

Who wants to be Tony Curtis in the 1950s? That man had cars and women, fast and smokin\u2019, in either arrangement of the words\u2026if you understand what I\u2019m saying. If you\u2019re not old enough to remember Janet Leigh, close the door and do a Google search. Curtis married Leigh in 1951 and by then both were A-list movie stars.<\/p>\n

In 1954, Curtis played the title role in his 22nd movie, Universal International Pictures\u2019 Johnny Dark, costarring Piper Laurie and Don Taylor. The story outline was this: Automotive engineer Johnny Dark (Curtis) surreptitiously designs a revolutionary new sports car while employed at Fielding Motors. When the stodgy company owner finds out about the secret project he isn\u2019t happy and refuses to sponsor Dark\u2019s car in a road race from Canada to Mexico. With assistance from the dazzling Liz Kent (Laurie) who is Fielding\u2019s granddaughter, Johnny Dark takes the car, known as the Idaho Special, and enters the race against his former friend and favored driver, Duke (Taylor).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n