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New addition. Need to get some MoFast stickers 😂

Braving the 'Chelsea Tractors' in Radlett (South Herts) to do the fish n' chips run. Lovely evening for a drive though 🙂.

Just to let everyone know, the new Club website is now live; as we were all painfully aware, the old one was terribly out of date, and also represented a different, older approach to the structure of such things, that didn't really take into account social media, and the spread of different on-line areas we now cover. The aim, apart from making sure everything was current, and would be easier to keep current, was to simplify everything dramatically, and rather than having multiple links to navigate around the site itself, it would serve as a hub, where you could find out about what we do, and then jump off into our other sites, such as the forum, from there.

leo went for his first ride in the XTR2 tonight. I think he appreciates it

Hello all, I just bought this at the weekend, and have joined your group - I live in Mildenhall , Suffolk, any of you local to me? thanks Peter

Ready for the Gold Cup at Oulton Park tomorrow.... just to show that the Westie is occasionally cleaned properly ('cos it'll be filthy by the time we arrive in the morning).

Day 14 - Mon 30th June - Hull to home - via the Peaks I really needed this 'durty' breakfast for some reason....... Perhaps it was something I'd drank 🤦‍♂️ Nearly ready to roll. There's always interesting vehicles travelling with us. ...and we're rolling.... The same Tesco in Hull we fuelled at on our way out. We've driven some great, roads but it's nice to be reminded we do have some good roads in the UK too. Especially in the Peaks. Another nice tradition, the 'Queen of cakes' @Julie Hall - WSCC AO Representative and Glen, met us in Bakewell for a drink and catch up. We had a good natter and then all set off on our ways. Though @Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) and I convoyed a little further. Bagpuss safely, home. Time to unload and clean! @Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) about to do similar. My shorts will live to serve again. Car washed and back in the toybox.

Glad people seem to like it 👍 (it was me 🤣) If anyone spots any bugs with it please DM me with details.

Thanks for the nice comments folks I thought I’d take some of the bodywork off (takes all of 2 minutes) to show the engine area a bit more, plus some more pics of carbon 😄

To cut a long story short, my wife has been banging on about having a Caterham for a few years now. They have never appealed to me, just didn't like them. Some seemed to look like Commer vans, with wheels that sit too far inboard and I just never saw one that changed my mind. Roll forward to a couple of weeks ago when we were out on a tulip rally around Shropshire (organised by Tern Hill Hall) and there was a couple driving a red Westfield. The more I saw it, the more I liked it. Even looked good with the hood up when it started to properly rain and as a result I less begrudgingly agreed to go and have a look at some cars in the flesh with her, so a trip to Toybox was arranged. We both came away with an idea that we could actually get along with a Westfield, but had also developed some ideas as to what boxes it should tick. An email from Natalie at Toybox last night with a few pretty poor photo's of a car they'd just got in was a proper bingo. Correct shape, good colour, engine I know my way around(ish) and some tasty extras meant that we decided to go for it. So the upshot is we've placed a deposit on a car we've not seen in real life, know very little about and can't wait to get hold of! The only issue that we're hoping Andrew can address is the lack of a hood, as that's an essential for us because we like to get around and sometimes rain can't be avoided. Last year we drove to Gibraltar in our 2CV, we've done the Dordogne and Laon Historique in that too. We've also done the Italian lakes in our '72 Spitfire along with many trips to Classic Le Mans. I appreciate that the luggage capacity of the Westfield will be somewhat less than the Citroen or the Triumph, but I'm sure we can do a few French weekends if we share pants. Looking forward to becoming part of the Westfield community and currently absorbing knowledge as fast as I can. Cheers!

In the absence of the real thing, the postman bought this the other day. Obviously it’s the Caterham kit, but as it’s yellow and black I had to have it. Rejigged it so the exhaust exits on the correct side (Zetec) and lost all the Caterham badging and I’ll probably make a windscreen for it, but it’s pretty close to what we’ll be driving in a couple of weeks (hopefully!)

Our car won the competition at the museum and the official photo's are in. The Great British Masters of the Marque, sponsored by Wera Tools, not bad for a 22 year old car that has done 76,000 miles, the polishing was worth it Glen! The prize It's the attention to detail also, little things like replacing the steering rack bushes. Ordered one day on-line from Westfield Chesil Ltd and delivered the next day, I might add, fantastic service. These are the 'before' photo's The 'after' photo's The one on the left was a very tight fit and will have a bit of attention tomorrow before replacing the nose cone. Your turn to win the competition next year!

A huge thanks to our new Chairman @Hedley Bennett (HB46443) - Club Chairman for supporting this new event, a sort of small version of Malvern where all varieties of kit cars are encouraged to get together and rejoice in our choice of hobby. Hedley and I The Kit Car Show Thanks to @Jakejmagee for the extra photo's. When I said a 'small' version of Malvern, I did mean small, so don't laugh but come and join us next year to make it biiiiiiiig. @Greenstreak-Andy D bought out his newly refurbished car to show off to us. A lot of hard work and money has been spent after his unfortunate accident a year ago today. This goes to show just what can be done, I think the interior is the same and so is the engine. Andy has done a great job and his attention to detail shows. The Westfield's came out in force of course, 11 cars including Jake's Tiger The Marlin's had a good turn out, some were local (Ashbourne and Bakewell) and others had come from Leeds and even Somerset, so well done to them. A lovely, friendly and cheerful bunch. We get treated like royalty here with our reserved parking spots underneath the sign, I know I know, we are weird, I'll take that. Flying the Peak District flag The neat Honda engine on show As usual we get itchy feet and soon take off onto the wonderful surrounding roads in search of food. We had a great, steady convoy up to the Traveller's Rest at Bradwell where we always get well fed. Parked at the Traveller's Rest Blimey, well fed! I had been eating half an hour and still not made a dent in my plate, I reckon that I will be ok for food now until 3 weeks on Thursday. Poor Lee had to have a sleep halfway through his dinner it was that big. After lunch we took off to The Pavillion, Baslow for cake, oh hilarious, I just had a pot of tea I can assure you. No names, but some people could actually fit cake in Monkey's Tea Party Cars parked at the Pavillion I don't know where they get their ideas from......the boys ddecided to have a game of something that looked nothing like cricket The ball ended up here, of course it did... A hilarious day out, very much good fun, what a club, what great cars to have in such a wonderful place xxx

Background- @Greenstreak-Andy D @Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Chairman & I started our Euroblats in 2017 with our first trip to Le Mans for Andy's 50th. This was followed by a return visit for Dave and I's 50ths in 2018. In 2019, due to Speedchills (UK based company we'd used for trips to Le Mans), no longer offering the great package we'd used previously, we ventured further to the Alps! We won't mention why we couldn't travel in 2020. In 2021 we had the Not Alps trip of Yorkshire. In 2022 we returned to the Alps with @Stu Faulkner in tow. In 2023 a further trip to the Alps took place and we ventured further into Italy with visits to Ferrari and Pagani. In 2024, the team changed with @Greenstreak-Andy D taking a year out to do the North Coast 500 with his daughter, @Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Chairman needing funds for his company car and @Stu Faulkner unable to join due to work issues. New additions were @Si.Dalziel @Jim cunliffe & @Tim.Coles So if you've been following carefully and doing the sums, this will be my 7th Euroblat and 5th trip to the Alps. 6th Europblat and 4th Alps trip for @Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Chairman and 3rd trip to the Alps for @Stu Faulkner So we should know what we're doing by now.............Let's see if we did! This will also be our longest trip at 14 days, due to there being only 1 date dictated by the train time table to and from Innsbruck. We've tried different routes to get home- 2019- Alps to Stuttgart (Porsche Museum), to Nürburgring to Zeebrugge- 3 long hot autobahn days. 2022- Alps to UK via France, 3 long hot days on easy but boring roads 2023 -Verona to Düsseldorf by Train. Booked, then train company advised they can't load us in Verona(some excuse about H&S / Training) so we had to drive back to Innsbruck, spending 8 hours driving rather than 2! 2024- Insbruck to Düsseldorf by Train. Here's our Googlemap for 2025, showing both the Austrian, Swiss and Italian waypoints. Improved for 2025 with colours and icons for passes, hotels, fuel etc. We then use this to program the TomTom accounts to be the same. Day 1 - Tue 17th June - Home to Hull @Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Chairman @Stu Faulkner & I planned to meet at Tagg Lane Dairy to start our 2025 trip. As we did last year, WSCC Members were invited to join us for any of our run to Hull. Though given our weekday departure date, we appreciate most folk will be at work. You can read up about as far as the Motorist here- Day 1 After we said good bye to @Robin Parker (Red Spider) - Yorkshire AO we continued our journey to Tesco in Hull to refuel before boarding the ferry Bagpuss getting excited as we approach the ferry. In we go................ We'd been put on the bottom deck with the trucks which meant a long climb to our cabins but we discovered in the morning, we'd be unloaded quickly and on our way. The first beer of the trip. Don't drink on ferries................that's all I'm saying...................

Day 11 - Fri 27th June - Passo Giau, Galleria Passo San Boldo and meet Mattia. Let's head for the bright blue bits! Ready to roll. Forecast is favorable! We'd been updating the WSCC FB Social group with our travels and Simon had said he was in Cortina. So we suggested saying hello as we drove to meet Mattia @mTT97 He'd suggested a location in Cortina and we were aiming to meet at 9:30am. He wasn't in his Westfield but was on holiday with his family in the area. As we got closer, we realised it was looking unlikely we'd meet. Simon advised he'd got stuck in traffic and we couldn't wait as we've got a long day ahead and had made plans to meet Mattia at 10am. I was running two Whatsapp live locations and well as guiding Dave and Stu! Here's Mattia location. We'd agree to Meet at the start of Passo Giau at 10:00am. We met Mattia as planned with his brother Samuele (he's got a 5L Mustang- which is only good for making noise and doing donuts- Mattia's words not mine 😉 - he was told he couldn't bring it!). Mattia led us along Passo Giau. The great action shots above were all taken by Samuele, many thanks! The brother of @mTT97 Mattia suggested this as a good location for some pics- https://maps.app.goo.gl/FV9vuifrmmMM4Jzm6 Here's Mattia with a L& D Tour 2025 hat courtesy of @marcusb as well as a WSCC Torch. Some great drone shots from Samuele too. All four cars having a drink of the good stuff. Mattia took us to a nice restaurant. Angry Pasta (Pasta Arabiata). Sadly Samuele couldn't get his drone to function at Galleria Passo San Boldo- We suspect the area locks out drone, as is done near airports etc. So he filmed as best his could with his phone. As can be seen it's not the fastest of passes and there are traffic lights to control movement due to the very narrow tunnels. We made a quick visit to Mattia's house for some nice cold water before we headed back to our hotel. Just as we were about to leave, his mum arrived. I asked her which car she liked best, expecting a lady to say the pink one and she's pointing at here own Fiesta. Lesson learned. 🤦‍♂️ As we were passing Cortina on our way back, I thought we'd have a second attempt to meet up with Simon. However he was up a mountain somewhere and the traffic on Cortina was horrendous! A cycle race was planned to start at 11pm and hence the traffic was all the riders/spectators etc arriving in advance. ...the cars needed a drink and sadly it's the start of the journey home tomorrow so we're best starting off full. Another great 329km (204 miles) done. More stickers too! A nod to @Jim cunliffe & @Tim.Coles back at our favorite Pizzeria. more Schnitzel about to be processed............

Day 10 - Thu 26th June - Man Vs. Machine, more passes (Gardena - again) and cloud dodging. The cars, looking ready to go on another blue sky day As the hotel provided free use of bikes (Stu had used them on previous days to visit the shops), Stu kindly decided to join me on my early morning run. It was nice to have some company! Cars ready to roll. We'd not picked up any fuel on the way back to the hotel last night, so a quick refuel at the start of the day. Note the traffic (red/amber lines) on TomTom. An Italian Traffic Officer, stopped us to tell us he liked the sound of our cars or something similar 😉 @Stu Faulkner proudly showing off his Fridge Magnet, bought at the top of the Passo Gardena Time to head for the hotel, the Forecast was storms, so we'd stayed fairly close to the hotel. We still covered 182kms (113 miles) by 1pm. Is it too early for 'vital replenishment ' fluid? Cars covered up We'd decided at breakfast not to eat in the hotel tonight (you need to order dinner from the daily menu at breakfast) and had booked a table at a Pizzeria 20 mins walk/swim away. Not the best decision, perhaps............ We set off with brollies and coats but got there without getting wet and continued our mission to process Pizza! A dry walk back and the cars hadn't floated away! We'd made plans to meet our Italian WSCC Member Mattia on our way to Galleria Passo San Boldo in the morning(I drove it in 2024). He advised his brother was joining him and bring a drone. I thought only fair to set him a task! Wikipedia link I sent him the above pic and asked for the drone to be static and to take a shot of my car in 3 different places to enable me to photoshop it to look like 3 of my cars on the pass etc. Lets see if he can do it.........

Day 6 - Sun 22nd June - Umbrail, Stelvio (again), Gavia & Timmelsjoch (in the reverse direction) - passes. Given the heavy rain as I arrived back at the hotel, it was too late to put the cover over my car. I'd hoped it would dry out over night. I was wrong! The sun was already out and we were soon moving and smiling again! More great views. ....and more fuel............ We then drove up the Umbrail pass. We normally drive down it from the top of Stelvio and then back up again. However this year we were heading to the Gavia pass and drove up the Umbrail pass and down half of the Stelvio pass again to get to Bormio before we had to the Gavia Pass. We'd been warned by @Murraymint who'd toured the Alps just before our trip that it was rather narrow.............. The road down from the top of Stelvio towards Bormio. The start of the Gavia Pass. Phil was right, full of bikes and very narrow. When cars meet on this mainly single track road, rather than wait for them to find a way though, the bikes swarm in and make it's even trickier! Further on, when then end up stuck in a jam on a hair pin bend. Dave got moved by some ladies to being next to me, to free up some space behind but then puts him in a crazy position and for cars coming up, they're bound to wonder why on earth is he there! This took circa 15 mins to clear! ....More fuel........... Given the slow progress along the Gavia pass, it made no sense to drive it in reverse to get back to our hotel, so we drive the great Timmelsjoch pass in the opposite direction that we drove on our first day in the Alps. The end of another great day a 456km ( 283miles) covered. My shorts soaked from the day before, haven't ran off, whilst we were out today. ..........back on the Pizza processing..............

They're totally coming back I tell you...

Great success! Lift is in and working and the Spitfire fits a treat, although it seems to be p*ssing petrol straight out of one carb 🙄 I need to move a scaffold pole that was used for hanging stuff off and then I can get it about another 18” higher. Certainly more than enough room for the Westfield to live on bottom bunk, I will have to protect it from golden showers though 😂

After not having the best couple of weeks this arrived today Nothing like abit of black gold to lighten the mood 😍 I best get that autoclave fired up got some orders to do Stay lucky

kit-race-car love it !

To round this thread off, I thought I would share a few pictures of Mum’s 90th party. Why you say? Because the legend that is Colin Homewood drove 93 year old Dottie up from Dawlish to drive Mum and Dad to the party. Mum used to be driven around by a boyfriend or two in Austin 7s, so Dottie the Austin 10 was perfect for the occasion. Huge thanks to Colin and Dottie for making Mum’s day!

Took my car to Northampton Motorsport last week for some attention to the cold starts and a map check. Unless the car had been sitting in the garage on only the hottest of days, it would start fine but run a bit lumpy until — I can only guess — the coolant reached around 30°C or so. Easily resolved with a bit of gas or just starting to drive, but I wanted it checked over having previously replaced a duff CHT sensor. Troy spent a morning running it up and down on the dyno, changing some of the ECU (OMEX) base settings and tweaking all the low RPM fuelling maps. As far as I know, it was as out the box by Westfield beforehand. Apparently, it had been configured to look for 9000 RPM, and by reducing it to a more realistic 7500 RPM, it gained a load of “resolution” in the map — fuelling is now more discrete and precise across the RPM range. The idle control values were also set poorly in the ECU and needed doubling to their maximum. Anyway, it now starts and idles great, but I’ll need to wait for it to be truly “cold” to see how it behaves. The dyno work did manage to kill the exhaust bobbin — too hot in low or no airflow — but it’s easy enough to replace. The whole team there were really helpful and deserve the good reputation they get on the forum.

Day 9 - Wed 25th June - Passo Fedaia & a road recommended by Mattia one of our Italian WSCC Members @mTT97 Ready to roll. ...More fuel........ 301kms (181 miles) covered today The hotel's having a BBQ in the garden tonight, so we'll join in (no Pizza or Schnitzel tonight then!). The Hotel owners sons, also work there. Did I over do the salad?

Day 8 - Tue 24th June - Tre Cime di Lavaredo & Passo Gardena again. Another early morning trot round to explore our new location. More great views and light traffic ahead. We visited Tre Cime di Lavaredo in 2024 and went to revisit, however it's no longer possible to drive to the top without prebooked tickets. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tre_Cime_di_Lavaredo Hence we turned round as we didn't know and hadn't prebooked. As we'd failed to reach our intended destination, we stopped here for a brief leg stretch. Here's a couple of German cyclists talking to Stu about our cars. Another nice location for a cold drink and a leg stretch. It's never a problem to drive through tunnels, just for the soundtrack! Back at our hotel Vital replenishment fluids going in after another great, but warm day. ....more pizza processing..............

Day 5 - Sat 21st June - Kaunertaler Gletscher (Private Toll Road) & Alpine Coaster + Furkajoch & Alberg Passes Given I drive a light weight car, I need to ensure I stay light too! Hence whilst the rest of the team practised their Olympic standard snoring, I crept out of the hotel early and went for a trot. Just like most things in the Alps, it involves altitude! The hotel is somewhere near the arrow in the valley below. After a shower and breakfast we were soon ready to roll again. More great views and great roads. The toll booth at the start of the private toll road. It only goes to a Ski Resort via a beautiful nature park. https://www.kaunertaler-gletscher.at/ Parked up at the top. Equally great views on the way back down. We've normally had issues on this road with the output of these other 'road user's but I'm not going to fight with one head on either! Disappointingly @Stu Faulkner had purposely not brought his pikachu Onsie thisyear! Another of my work colleagues based in Germany was actually born near our next destination and we'd arranged to meet up during our trip. Here's Klaus before he got a ride in my car. Cars drinking more of the good stuff! Klaus enjoyed his run. Further to a recommendation from @Brad Stone we then travelled downhill without petrol power on the Alpine Coast nr. Imst. Alpine Coaster Here's Stu and Dave about to launch. Here's me about to go! A great way to travel down hill, but even less padding than my JK Fibreglass seats and I regretting having a tender back as a result of the Alpine coaster over the next days when driving. Thirsty cars again. Skies is looking moody! My German work colleague and Alps Tour guide about to ride in Bagpuss. It's his last opportunity and we're about to get very wet! I'm impressed my Toyo R888R's leave tracks behind on very wet tarmac! (shot with the rear lens on my Insta 360). He's heading south tomorrow to Lake Garda for the next part of his hols.

Day 4 - Fri 20th June - Stelvio & Maloja Pass As in previous years we persuaded our Hotel host to allow us an early breakfast to enable us to leave early to Reach Stevlio before it gets too busy. Cars nearly ready to escape the garden car park and the sun's out already. Always great to see it from far, nice light traffic as usual on these great roads. We had a great run up. Another pass sticker earned. We then headed down the other side of Stevlio into Bormio and toward a pass we've not driven before recommended by Harry Metcalfe (of Harry's garage fame), the Maloja pass, in Switzerland. It's always great to see routes like this ahead on the Satnav! We couldn't make a circular route, so had to drive the pass again in the reverse direction. Such a hardship 😉 Here's the cars back at the hotel still in glorious sunshine. A UK colleague who snow boards often in Austria had recommended a local speciality called a Tiroler Gröstl. So the night before I'd asked our host if the kitchen would be able to make 3 for us. It was very nice. Recipe

And....... breathe!!! The red rocket has a fresh MOT! She had been laid up for 4 months due to work and family commitments (so needed a few quid thrown at her) but I'm so pleased my happy place is back on the road!!!

Lots of people on holiday this month, but still a great turnout from the regulars today - the weather was perfect and a little carpark DIY happened as I fitted a BlinkSTOP with new plug & play loom to Paul's incredible Atom 4. Paul always forgets to turn his indicators off, and sure enough it came into use immediately on his drive home 🙂

We had 16 cars down for coming today, but due to various circumstances we managed 10. It didn't rain, although it was cloudy. Lots of kits there, Tigers, MEV and a lot of Caterhams too. https://youtu.be/FldAPC9ngo8?si=IMaHzjJCqvnQQQJC

Another thrilling update for all those interested in ‘What have we done’ We will be collecting the car one day the week after next and Andrew at Toybox has come up trumps and found us a roof 😎 This afternoon has been spent fitting the lift. All the heavy stuff is done, electrics and hydraulics tomorrow, hopefully ending with the Spitfire up on top bunk before we go away Monday morning🤞 The good news is, it actually fits!

I can't see that being a good choice BMW engines don't exactly have a reputation for simplicity.

Day 13 - Sun 29th June - Düsseldorf to Euro port Rotterdam After an uneventful night and uninterrupted journey, we safely drove off the train in Düsseldorf, though as you'll note in the pic above, the cars in front get off quicker than us, as we've got to move all our stuff out of Dave's car before he can get in! Sunday morning traffic in Düsseldorf, isn't difficult! Given we'd not had a proper evening meal and a light breakfast on the train. We stopped for the first 'Fast Food' of the trip. Which ironically wasn't very fast, but was fresh (same slow service as last year). We were soon across Germany and back into the Netherlands. As we've got our TomTom's on avoid motorways, we were taken along some crazy roads. Above shows the cycle lanes either side of the road are huge, the centre lines gone and cars are forced against each other! Even in more rural areas! More of the good stuff. As we did in 2024, again as the Ferry doesn't sail until the evening. We've stopped off at a museum to kill some time-link Luckily they'd got a 'Wheels and Wings' event on- so there were cars as well and military items to view. Given our earlier restaurant disasters on this trip with closures. I'd rang ahead and booked into here. Our 3rd or 4th visit. Great food and attentive staff. De Beren It's only about 20 mins from the Ferry. Another 320kms (198 miles) covered. We'd normally refuel in Europe ready for the journey home, however it's not cheaper than the UK currently so we didn't! Into the ship we go. Luckily we've been put on the lower deck again, which should make for an easier/quicker unloading in Hull. A quick wash and we're soon in the bar to celebrate the end of another great Euro blat.

Day 12 - Sat 28th June - Time to head home- though a few more passes first.......Passo Stalle, Grossglockner Pass and Gerlos Pass We awoke to another glorious view- Blue skies and not a cloud in sight! cars packed and loaded for the trip home. Ready to roll. On our 2024 visit to the Dolomites, @Si.Dalziel noticed we'd always travelled south from the hotel we stayed in (not the same one as this year) and he suggested we go north on our way home. We did and we found some nice roads/passes to drive. So this year I planned to take the same route. I saw the countdown timer on the traffic light and thought 37 secs isn't long to wait. Then I woke up and realised it was minutes! The light is green for our direction only 15 mins every hour. Clearly @Jim cunliffe had two Coffees at breakfast last year, meaning we arrived whilst the light was luckily green. So we turned round and stopped by a lake we'd seen a few mins earlier. @Stu Faulkner allegedly likes 'dropping logs off' in the woods, but this time he wants to climb on them! We were soon joined by some riders who'd probably had the same idea. We got through the traffic lights eventually and were soon back on Austrian roads. Another fill up and we meet two German drivers (Lotus and a VX220). They're also heading to the Grossglocker Pass and ask if they can follow us. Why not! However we lost them before we got to the start of the pass and never saw them again! The toll booth on the Grossglockner Pass- Wiki Link Not the cheapest at EUR 135 for the 3 of us! Rather foggy in places, perhaps another 30 mins later and it would have burnt off. However last year we only just got up the pass before it shut for a cycle race and we didn't want that to happen ( @Stu Faulkner had checked for Austrian and Italian Cycle events prior to us leaving the UK- but whenever we saw more than a couple of riders together we blamed Stu 😉 ). We found a 'Nissan GTR / Skyline Meet' at the top. I'm sure their engines were not enjoying the thin air. Another sticker earned We then travelled down the other side of the pass and headed to our next stop for a leg stretch and a break. Our train wasn't until the evening so we'd got plenty of time. Water world (no, not the naff Kevin Costner film). We'd passed this last year and it looked impressive from the road (as above) but looked too busy, too touristy to stop in our Westies. However Dave did some pre trip research and it looked do-able. Dave had even sensibly brought his walking boots along just for this. I'd got my running trainers. The Krimml water fall is the highest water fall in Austria and the 2nd Highest in Europe. Wiki Link We parked in a payable, barrier controlled car park. I left my luggage in the car, If someone wants my stinky trip washing and running kit their very welcome to it! Can you see our cars? @Stu Faulkner took this selfie with his 'Fisher Price' Phone! Sadly our last pass of the trip, the Gerlos Pass. Very light traffic. Cars drinking the good stuff again. We then headed to a Restaurant just outside Innsbruck that we've used for the last 2 trips. Sadly it was closed for the weekend (yes, just like the Oil Can Cafe- we should have rang ahead and booked!). Cars were treated to another top up of V-Power Racing and we bought snacks in lieu of the evening meal we weren't going to get. We've not exactly starved whilst away 😉 Back at the Innsbruck Rail Terminal- not exactly a surprise to see the same Dino we loaded with in Duesseldorf. The trains are sadly so infrequent post covid. I'd emailed and rang UEX (the train company) after Stu's outbound roof incident to advise all 3 cars were cabriolets, so hopefully we'll be correctly boarded on the lower deck. and we were! You'll note, Stu's not risking further damage and has put his doors and luggage in Dave's car, along with my luggage.

Day 7 - Mon 23rd June - Time to move to the Dolomites - via Passo Costalunga, Sella & Gardena Car loaded up, sun's up and we're ready to leave our VIP garden carpark. Stu kindly sharing his 'emergency' flap jacks with us. More pass stickers earned. .......more high octane fuel............... Not unusual to get interest in our cars where ever we are. He's a lady taking a pic of her husband sat in my car. He works for a company making forged pistons. The Dolomites are distinctly different looking than the Alps. ....more high octane fuel................. Our first beer in our Hotel in the Dolomites. 'Terrible' view from our room. My shorts still need drying out Another Schnitzel processed..........

Day 3 - Thu 19th June - Innsbruck to Pfunds We awoke before the train had arrived in Innsbruck and prepared ourselves for our 'delux' train breakfast. With view's like this what's there to moan about! Breakfast was soon consumed, but before we'd had our tea/coffee, an announcement was made "Due to Technical reasons, the train would be stopping for up to an hour'. I thought 'we're technical people'? We need to know what it is, surely not as bad a 'leaves on the line' in the UK. The train was stopped in small station about 1 hour from our destination in Innsbruck, a tape was across the platform preventing access to the car transporter section of the train. My phone suddenly rang, a German no. was calling and it's my company phone and I work for a German company, so not unusual to see +49 numbers on my phone. I wasn't going anywhere so thought it best to answer. It was the train loading crew. "We were the Technical problem" and all 3 of us need to come to our cars! I rustled up Stu and Dave and we approached the Train loading crew. It was only Stu they wanted. The train transporter section had been swapped round in Munich and our cars had been travelling backwards at circa 140mph! We suspect this is due to Innsbruck not being as big as the station in Düsseldorf and they can't easily turn the car transporter carriages round for unloading on the ramp. Stu's door had come open. The delay was due to the expectation of time required for the overhead line to be isolated before anyone would be allowed to visit Stu's car and make it safe for the remainder of the journey. Eventually Stu was able to go up and removed both his doors and the contents of his car. We'd gone from being the 3 English gents with their amazing, interesting home made cars, to the being the 3 plonker's causing a delay to everyone's holiday. This also meant my car had travelled backwards at the same speed and my Aero screen wasn't designed for that! Hence I was worried what I'd discover on unloading. I was relieved to discover no damage to my car and Stu was confident he could make good his doors, to continue our trip. We were soon moving and this slight hiccup was a distant memory as the clear roads and great views arrived. Our next stop was Sölden where we've visited the https://www.soelden.com/en/activities/excursion-destinations/007-elements museum in 2023 and 2024. Though it was just a lunch stop this year. Parked in my reserved spot in the Mutli storey car park. Free for UK drivers as it doesn't recognise our number plates! Our first pass sticker achieved within 1 hour of landing in Innsbruck! The Kuhtai Saddle Pass. ....and the Pizza processing continues...... A slight mix up on delivery to the table, so Stu and I cut ours in half to make hybrid pizza's! About to tick off the Timmelsjoch Pass, you pay for this one, but it's worth it! As we travelled, I received a message from my German work colleague Andreas. Who's been my guide for all our Alps trips as he's a veteran motorcyclist round the Alps given he lives circa 3 hours away. I'd not discussed this year's trip with him and I've not seen him as much as usual in Teams Meetings etc, due to his role changing. He's recommended many of the passes, roads to the passes and the hotels we've used. He was asking if we were staying in the same hotel as he was this week, as he was already there. A great surprise as I've never been in the Alps with him. Live locations were shared in Whatapp. All these passes is thirsty work for the cars! Andreas was looking to be closer. Who would get to the hotel first? We're often waved at by bikers and so didn't take any particular notice as we passed the exit of a car park of a place we often stop with a sunken church in a reservoir (similar to derwent dam!), as a few bikes were waving. They followed us out and passed us. It was Andreas, not that I've ever seen his bike or his leathers before! They headed to the Hotel and we headed for fuel from the nice duty free petrol station in Switzerland which means driving a great quiet twisty road for about 10 km in each direction, but we like to start the day with a full tank etc. It rained rather hard for a few mins! It was a pleasant end to a great warm day and soon dried up and we went straight to our VIP car park in the garden of the hotel. We were soon told we could move the table tennis table! We quickly moved our luggage to our rooms had a quick wash and joined Andreas and his 3 biker friends for dinner.

@LoneWolf visits the UK (Macclesfield) for work periodically and has attended more Cheshire Area Xmas curries than some local members! He was keen to obtain the WSCC Torch given to members who attended the 2025 Malvern show. As we were visiting Italy this summer on our Peaky Schnitzel Pizza Processing Tour, I offered to collect one from @Marcus Barlow - Show and Events Co-ordinator and deliver to Italy for him. He was planning to take the train up the Dolomites and ride with us for a day. However this didn't happen. He arrived in the UK for a week on Saturday, so I through together an Impromptu Peaky Blat and invited a few local members along to join us. This is as much as I planned and would make up the rest depending on traffic/weather etc. The Peaky game of 'hide and seek' started just before 9am for me. @andyjs and his friend Scott with a 1.6L Sigma powered Caterham got into the Peaks before me and I'd got to collect @LoneWolf from his Hotel first. We drove towards the Cat & Fiddle from Bosley Crossroads and had a good run up. We found Andy and Scott somewhere between Pott Shrigley and Kettleshulme and had a few rounds of all cars turning round and repeatedly passing each other before all 3 cars we pointing in the same direction. After a quick stop and chat, we decided Scott could lead and he took us on a fabulous run round the Peaks. Some new to me roads and some very familiar but amazingly very light traffic considering the great weather. The cars needed a drink in Buxton. Scott uses the same approach as me to Winnat's pass- Crawl at circa 10 miles and hour on the approach and then hopefully have a clear run up. We did! Not so good when we discover Scott's battery is dead (known issue) and he's having to use a USB power bank to jump start it. His idle speed has recently been adjusted leading to it cutting out (any advice @Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Chairman I recall you having a similar issue for a while?) All the cars we'd left behind at the start of Winnat's, now sailed past as Scott jumped his car back into life. and again neat to Quackers! We stopped for a drink and some lunch at the Grouse and Claret in Rowsley A 'light' snack for Alessandro @LoneWolf Scott and Andy had to leave at this point. So I treated Alessandro to a trip through Asbo Tunnel on our way back to Macclesfield. 160 great miles covered on a bone dry day!

Got to test both on a 1000km trip to Hell and Lånkebanen for some autocross on the rallycross-track. Awesome place to drive, and the osgiken really transformed the car. Really predictable and a lot more grip. This is a just-do-it-upgrade if you got a Mazda diff and use the car on track! The carbonbox made the trip up and down much more enjoyable aswell. Happy!

The grey one And the green one And of course @DIY-Si

Two not so small upgrades: Replaced the fairly useless Mazda LSD with this: And fitted the PX600-box. Really lowered the noise which was the main point.

Spot the Westfield in this photo 😉 :

after completing front & rear end upgrade to new Protech & Powerflex, wanted to have the geometry checked & set up to make sure I’m pointing in the right direction. In stepped @Maurici- CleaR Motorsport Thank you Maurici for the service with the bonus of an A-Road drive thru Staffs/Shrop & Cheshire to test it on the way home - happy days 🤩🙏🫶🏼

Hello, I’m in LA, California. I got lucky and found an early prelit Ali car. (Thank you Damion for the info) I think it’s an early 1983 car has an Jo cross flow 1275 MG with 4 spd no sync 1st gear. The car is stock outside of an MSD (I might remove now I know it’s early) and an electric fan which I’m leaving since it HOT here. It was in need of TLC when I got it so I’m just slowly getting the car sorted. The car kinda fell in lap so I’m open to any Information if I’m wrong Thanks chris

While I can claim no credit for the build, I am now the proud owner of a 1995 Westfield SEiW with a long and storied history here in the US. From an early appearance in Road & Track in 1996, through its current configuration at the hands of its previous owner (JohnCh), this little red beauty has seen a lot of changes, and I'm in awe of all of them. The only thing I changed was adding the WA State Collector Car plates (due to its 30+ year age) to keep from having to re-license it every year. While I might make subtle changes over time, I'm having waaaay too much fun to even consider it currently.

This year's Annual Service will be at Bicester Heritage on the 9th August, from 9.00 - 16.00. There's usually a good turn out of various cars, and this year at least one Westfield will be on display. For reasons that I can't quite explain, my XI has been selected to be on display in the Exotics and Rarities section. Should you be passing, I'll be the tall, scruffy looking fellow stood near it.

Most of you will be aware that there are several membership packages available, primarily with and without posted printed magazines. Whatever membership package you have, if you want to switch it at renewal time, this is what to do: 1. IMPORTANT: Let your existing membership package expire first - you’ll see a big red banner at the top of the screen when that happens 2. Once it expires, log in to the forums as usual 3. Click twice on the Store tab (directly under the WSCC logo at the top of the page) to open up the available choices 4. Click on WSCC Membership 5. Chose the new membership package you now want, then follow the steps through to online payment That’s it!

A good day out indeed. Thanks @Julie Hall - WSCC AO Representative for organising and for @Hedley Bennett (HB46443) - Club Chairman for supporting. A great turnout by the WSCC as always! A Westfields as far as the eye can see! With the YNot festival being set up in readiness for next weekend to the left. A 'nice' man in a van, on this straight 50mph road, taking pics and sending through to post to you should you wish to pay from them several weeks later. Good to see @westyjord87 out with us and @Greenstreak-Andy D (Surely it's about time for a forum name change, we'll gladly suggest some 😉 !), in his new livery! I had named it the bumble bee bimble bus, however he was driving it like a man possessed ! He's suggesting it to be a wasp!

What brilliant weather we all enjoyed. Just the right temperature and warm late into the evening allowing a no jumper drive home. Good variety of cars and excellent pizzas. Great to see @Chris Emm, @Jakejmagee and the return of @MattV in the aptly named ‘Jaffa’. Ant Gilbert has swapped his Westy for a python green Cayman 718 GTS 4.0 - stunning and also quite clean 😁. Photos below are from Ant and I’ll post more when @Jakejmagee posts on FB and I can copy them! Some of my photos -

Day 2 - Wed 18th June - Rotterdam to Düsseldorf After a 'dirty' ferry breakfast (boy did I need it! All the jumping around had made me hungry!) , we were soon on our way. Already getting warm and it's only 9am! We followed the motorway for about 30 mins to ensure we escaped the port area and then moved to non motorway road . We then headed for a BP station we've used before for fuel and lunch, just outside Arnhem We've found a good way to stop Stu 'Misbehaving' - We then continued through the Netherlands and across the invisible border into Germany. We stopped at our usual spot for a leg stretch. We then continued our trip into the Centre of Düsseldorf We've found a great place to stop- https://remise.de/duesseldorf/short-facts/englisch Full of great cars and a nice restaurant too The waiter suggested prices start from EUR 800 per month to store your car here........... First Pizza processed............... Cars had a drink of the good stuff just before boarding the train. Waiting to board the train. Lots of nice metal to view, whist we wait to board. Here's how long TomTom is suggest the journey would take by road, if we didn't take the train to Innsbruck. As I have no roof, I have to completely empty the car and store in Dave's car. We've been loaded onto the top deck of the train for the first time, as we didn't put 'Cabriolet' on the booking (Never had before). They normally load us on the lower deck with the bikes. Time for bed on the 'Tenko express'- Here's the likely route by train- Ignore the time show above! The train does stop in several places to ensure we arrive at a sensible time, rather than 3-4am!