1952 Ford Pilot Station Wagon 40 had very good performance and

had very good performance and road handling

Originally the DB1 used a 2 litre pushrod engine but this was replaced by a Lagonda unit which was uprated to nearly 3 litres

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The standard engine was the 401 cubic inch V8 used in all Buick’s that model year

Conceived in the mid 1940s by Frank Spring and Reid Railton the design was at first rejected by Hudson’s President Barit who later changed his mind after trying a prototype and reportedly ordered it into production for the 1948 model year

1952 Ford Pilot Station Wagon 40 had very good performance andThe V8 Pilot was a Dagenham built answer to Fords lack of a large saloon immediately after the war. Fords ubiquitous V8 had been produced in various guises in the United States, Germany and France as well as the United Kingdom. The Pilot was the last of this pre war design to remain in production. Although the saloon was produced in large numbers the woody was a rare variant and few survive today, the best known probably being the example built for