Does anyone have any photos of the Ford V8 Pilots' produced in England and Australia between 1947 and 1951. A friend of mine has one and we are trying to find some more pictures for reference. Post them on here so we can have a look at the Pommy ford V8 with hydraulic front brakes and cable rears!!
I can post up loads of pics from over in the UK but none of them are really hamb material... go to http://www.earlyfordv8.co.uk/ there are guys in the club reproduce lots of parts for them from running boards to handles etc. etc. if you need any info let me know and i will pass it on. there is lots of good info in the book produced by mick gamble over here - http://www.thev8pilotbook.co.uk/ it would have all the info you want to know and more. from the link it says uk orders only - if you were interested paypal me the money and i would order it and send it on. there was one here in the UK rebuilt with a 9" back end, sbc etc. etc. called california dreamin' which is lovely and all the info about is can be found here http://www.burnhamautos.com/pilot.htm
There's one here in Oz from a Victorian country town of Ararat and it has been chopped and has got to be the best looking Pilot ever. If you get on the ozrodders.com site and ask the same question you should get heaps of replies as it is a well known car. There will be pics of it at various Aussie runs as it gets to lots of events. swifty
A google image seach will show you several examples, mainly restored. http://images.google.com.au/images?ndsp=20&um=1&hl=en&q=ford+pilot&start=0&sa=N My avatar also shows mine. It has a 302 with a c4 Cheers David
I don`t know if this has been on here before, but this started out as a stock Ford V8 Pilot...Rick Beasley then made it into a 3 window coupe..all hand made in steel. they are very similar to the 36 Fords and even share the same windshield frame, but I think tyhe Pilot ones are made from brass instead of steel. Here is a panel van version....it would make a nice thing if you had the bollocks to do it....super rare vehicle. You can fit the front sheet metal off the American `36 to the Pilot...I don`t know if it is a straight swap, but it`s been done and looks nice.
There is an excellent shop manual...someone has reproduced it, too. I have an original and a repro. Body except grill and fenders are from the prewar V860 powered Model 62, sold all over Europe under various names, eventually Matford I think. This body first got the 85 engine as a WWII staff car and a station wagon version. Brakes, shocks, and much hardware are English, entirely different from US, but general layout is pure early Ford. Engine is the 1937 221 that Ford England produced until the fifties, with odd locked rod bearings.
This ebay ad has an advertising pic of the prewar ancestor, the 62: http://cgi.ebay.ie/Ford-Model-62-V8...ihZ007QQcategoryZ1319QQtcZphotoQQcmdZViewItem http://www.autogallery.org.ru/m/forwoa2a.htm WWII station wagon military sedan is pictured on here: http://miliblog.co.uk/?cat=45 Military ones look like a carnivorous version of the Pilot...
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