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On my Pilot V8 Woodie the rear seat is just supported by a piece of wood between the inner wings, no mounts or hinge on the lower edge... Clearly not right, or original. So, please post pictures or make suggestions about how to attach the rear seat on a Woodie, especially if it folds forward...

Here's the start of what might end up as quite an epic... In late 2013 I bought a very rare Ford Pilot V8 Woodie unseen from Holland through a well known auction website. The car had emerged from nearly 40 years of storage and was being sold by a dealer in military vehicles who had taken it in...

Anyone have a view on this? I've put new 1937 front shock links on the Pilot V8 Woodie and the taper is fine but the thread is very short and there are no split pin holes. So, the threads are too short for nylock nuts or normal nuts with split washers or to drill for split pins. Half nuts...

Hi, the Pilot V8 Woodie has a greased fabric pad between the top leaf and the cross member on both the front and rear springs. Has anyone any suggestions about what to renew them with?

I was wondering if anyone knew what grade of steel the Ford king pins are made from. I'm struggling to get new king pins for the Pilot Woodie; in my NOS set one is cracked, and in the aftermarket set the cotter pin notch is too wide and in the wrong place and I don't like the way the thrust...

I've been going through various bits of bracketry from the front end of my V8 Pilot Woodie, remembering that the car has been dismantled since the the late 1970s and I bought it in 2014 as a pile of bits. The part I am struggling with is a pressed steel bracket, of which I only have one. It...

Hi, my Pilot Woodie is built on a very late E71C registered in 1954 so it has rod operated rear brakes. Sometime in the distant past someone has converted the front brakes from hydraulic to cable and I'm trying to return it back to juice. I've got a set of brake rods, cross shaft and so on...

Hi, I'm usually over on the Early V8 forum as I have a Pilot V8 Woodie but I'd like your help with this photograph. It is in a recently compiled archive of images of my home town in Derbyshire, UK. I think that it is an English Model T built at Trafford Park in Manchester before 1927, but...

My Pilot V8 saloon, which I've stripped to the chassis, has an extra transverse coil spring in the rear suspension, whereas the Woodie has not. Indeed, I've not found any reference to the helper spring in the Pilot workshop manual. Has anyone come across one of these? Was it an option, or a...

Hi, does anyone know whether the Pertronix 1285 Ignitor electronic ignition will fit the UK Ford Pilot distributor. If not, what's the best way of getting a reliable and easy to set up ignition system for the Pilot? Thanks, John

Hi, I'm restoring a recently acquired V8 Pilot Woodie and I've started to look at the A pillar and hinge area. Mine has pretty much crumbled away to the extent that it's hard to tell what shape the inner structure of door post around the hinge mounting should be. It's not helped by the fact...