Retirement and Death
In the 1950s, he acquired Fisher Island (located in South Florida's Biscayne Bay) and was the last of a series of millionaires to occupy it as a one-family island retreat, eventually selling it to a development group in 1963. He also had a summer retreat in McGregor Bay, Ontario.
A 1967 Popular Mechanics article showed even in retirement Gar Woods was still active inventing an Electric Vehicle (EV) controller which he used in the EV he built.
He died in Miami at the age of 90 in 1971, days before the 50th anniversary of his first Harmsworth win. Upon Wood's death, George Van of The Detroit News wrote: “To the public, he was Tom Swift, Jules Verne, Frank Merriwell with a little bit of Horatio Alger thrown in.”
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