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A disturbing likeness to the driver as well as the car..... (Courtesy my daughter who does this sort of stuff for a living.)

Tiggers Website is a good source of technical info for a lot of things http://westfield-world.com/suspension.html

First weekend with the Westie and just had a run to Castle Coombe circuit to check out Merlin Motorsport - unfortunately had the missus with me, probably saved me a lot of money though. Really pleased with the car, but just a couple of things need attention. Annoying squeak from the rear suspension, and the car pulls to the left. Toybox powder coated all the front suspension so may need to be tracked & set up properly. Still grinning as I was putting the car away - and caught on camera by my neighbour.

My father told me that it was the duty of all parents to see their kids did better than they did. He was one of 14 kids from a mining backgroud and had to leave school at 14 to support his family. He saved and when he had enough money bought a house and got married, all by working extra hours and not spending what he had earned. It was the same argument for his generation with how can ordinary people buy a house, that we have now? It was simple then, as it is now, work hard you get more but don't expect to spend at the same time. I became a mechanic and worked my way up to management, exceeding my Dad in material terms and job satisfaction. Our daughter is in the final years of being a Doctor, so again has exceeded us. Too many people have never had that drummed into them. The days of working hard and saving until you had enough are gone which leads to the problems we now have. Instead of those on limited income buying less they would rather go to the likes of Brighthouse and pay insane amounts of money for the TV washing machine etc rather than do without or buy secondhand. There are still lots of good people who turn out well balanced kids, but, there is a growing issue with people who can choose to not work and still prosper. One of my pet moans at the moment is "food banks". Apparently people are starving in this country, no they are not!!! What the problem is they cannot budget, show restraint in any form. You can see the people in Yate driving to the food bank, with I phones in hand, getting their hand outs. Today they were collecting for the foodbank in tesco, biscuits, mars bars, being donated all very nice, but if they are starving pasta, bread, potatoes are all a better choice. The people helping would be better helping people who go there to learn to manage money, learn to say no to the kids and help them to become better qualified to gain better employment. That is too simple for those who chose to say that there are no jobs because those from overseas take them.

It's a problem we all think about on every journey and I am always checking the stat housing, someone has to ask the question were is your drivers seat? or did you remove it to sit somewhere safer during your 3.5 hour wait???

Yep like the idea and would be keen, date dependent

Always up for a round, assuming I am free then I will attend.

will do Gary - And massive thanks to Claire at A-Plan for suggesting this - come on folks this must be a fun day out in the summer whack the bats in the passenger footwell, get some Farrahs on and walk about a bit :-)

GOLF! sounds like a waste of a good walk to me But well done for organising this, I hope it's a success

Make sure you bring some limes with you