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Daughter and her friends (1 woman, 1 man and a reluctant father) swapped an L200 chassis on the side of the road last year!. The original chassis was so corroded that it would have been too dangerous to drive away from an MOT test so they went to a scrap yard who sold them a rolling chassis and told them it was an easy swap. “Just lift the cab, roll the old chassis out and the new one in”! That's OK if you have lifting gear but on the side of the road with an engine crane, it's "a challenge" but she did it. Proud of her and her mates!

A lot of the changes on mine cant be seen from the outside, but here is one form whe i picked her up in May 2011, IMG_0474 by andy798, on Flickr And this is what it looks like now Westfield by andy798, on Flickr

OK, so I know it's not finished, but here's my journey... I started with this (yes, it isn't a Westy, but the full Sierra donor is in the back of the car, so counts towards the build!) then saw the light and went to this on 7th June 2014: and is now at this stage:

I don't believe we can judge 'Personality' in the way most posters are using it from media communications anyway! I once met a soap star- she was a stunner, came across as a genuinely great person and I had a bit of a crush TBH! When was actually lucky enough to spend some time in her company she was a complete 'female canine' and not a very nice person. Of the very few 'personalities' I've met and chatted to. None were as portrayed in the media. Some had far more personality than depicted and were thoroughly fine people, others the complete opposite. As far as SPOTY is concerned IMO the majority of the nominated sports people would have been worthy winners, as Lewis IS

Hiding itself away behind a pay wall where people slowly give less of a toss about it. You can see it happening already. This 'Lewis doesn't have a personality' stuff is nonsense. By most people's measure he probably has the most 'personality' on the grid. They just don't like it because they aren't into all the bling, dogs and red private jets. Regardless, the word 'personality' in the case of SPOTY is from the 2nd definition in the OED as noted earlier in the thread. So what he has won is 'most popular person with people that could be bothered to vote that did a sport in 2014'.

Following on from Marto303's example of what not to do to a Westie, some of you may remember my attempt a couple of years back. Unfortunately a rebuild wasn't really an option! Before (hours before).... ...and to prove that Westfields, rain, an oil slick and trees don't mix..... Got another one 3 months later and 6 months after that my wife spoke to me again! Matt

From hereon it shall be called a stop dangler. Who says the swear filter spoils threads ;-)

They said Lewis got more than double the votes for Rory. So who voted for the lesser mainstream sports stars then? I voted for the guy I wanted to win, and he won so I'm happy.