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Returned home from work and opened my mail, CD and a letter sent to me from my cousin. I load the CD into my PC and sit back to enjoy an old cine film from Sunday 11th July 1965. There I am playing in my cousins garden as a two year old, my sister and another cousin (both six years old) are kicking a football about and other uncles and aunties standing around and messing about in front of the camera. The cine film has only recently been found and has now had some copies done to CD, its in colour but no sound and is the only film of certain members of our family who are sadly no longer with us.

Brian, at two you probably won't remember it. I have some photos of me with bare bum on a lambswool rug. Probably less than a year old. No, I'm not publishing them. For now you can see this. HM and I on honeymoon, Pez Espada in Torremolinos, November 1968.

I agree that technology is going to far and this would be extremely irritating if everyone wore these ridiculous things its bad enough everyone tinterneting and texting on mobile phones every second of the day!! However the technology these things provide can give a certain amount of independence for some people. Last year I looked after a chap with a muscle wasting disease resulting in him not being able to move at all but he was trialling a computer it worked using a pair of glasses and in the right lens was a computer chip and to communicate he moved his eye side to side and this would spell out the letters he was as quick as speaking it was phenomenal so technology has its place at times I think.

I think that is lovely and what a lovely memory to keep now.

Andrew a big thankyou to you for the cracking pictures and also the contact number! Left Kevin a voicemail and he rang me back at dinner time today! Such a cracking bloke (as are all the ones ive dealt with since joining the club) Kevin was more than helpful and told me he had purchased the car from a chap in York, and it was in the original condition as finished by my dad, complete with build diary as well! Kevin and his dad carried out all the mods since they bought it! He told me what prompted the build was a rather unwelcome amounts of large stones in the road (possibly put there by one of britains finest halfwits) and it was a case of "Do i throw it in the ditch or try and go over them?" drive over them won as it would have with me! Unfortunately this split the sump but Kevin managed to stop her with plenty of oil pressure ! The engine was removed and repaired anyway! Caring owners doesnt come into it! Kevin and his father had decided whilst the engine was out for rebuild to change to bike power! So a R1 engine from a 98 bike fitted with 99 spec carbs was introduced along with uprated brakes and suspension! Interior was changed from biscuit to black and dash to carbon! Swept wings were exchanged for cycle wings, and the original alley cat wheels changed to silver mini lites! From what Kevin tells me this car was then the first bike powered Westfield! Nice to know my dads car had morphed into something thats a craze today through the skill,dedication and imagination of Kevin and his dad! The old crossflow complete with twin forties was sold on to a caterham owner and the engines is now proudly sat in a caterham trundling round our roads!! This makes me smile the most as i remember my dad purchasing the kit engine from Rally Tune (sadly no longer in business from my understanding) and building it on the kitchen table which im sure if i dig deep enough in my mind my mum was probably not to pleased about Ah the good old days! Think this was where my boy hood dream started! Kevin seems to think he may have the number of the gent that purchased it from him, so he is going to have a look and pass it on if possible! (great stuff) And as Geoff said he thought it was for sale not long ago hes right! Ebay apparently according to Kevin it was offered back to him by the owner but he'd already got himself a new one so had to pass which he was gutted about as he was when he sold it. Bit like my dad was i think! Anyway i hope to here from him soon and see if i can track down the current owner If anyone has anymore info would be great! (red ones still hiding) cheers all Scott

Grumpy old git....................................just like me

its Sunday night we will be staying at the circuit they allow camping and from memory its free I dont have a towcar sorted yet but hopefully will have an estate car by then as I plan pinching mattress of single bed and throwing it in the back of the car and kipping in it, thats what i normally do anyway

No quick release wheel. It's not theft that's the concern, it's vandalism TBH. Having said that....DUM DUM DUM it's BIRMINGHAM!