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Good to meet you guys yesterday. Enjoyed the run, the company and the lunch. Car's now washed down - not a nice jobby (so to speak), and I even found that some had hit the fan!! Who'd have thought it, eh? But I kept saying those immortal words of Johnny English, "Oh pull yourself together, it's only a bit of poo!". Fragrant Magic Tree now hanging from mirror. The thing that nearly made me sick was when Chris (I think it was) found a bit of sweetcorn amongst the sewage on his exhaust! Hopefully see you in Applecross. At least it's only cow, deer, sheep and rabbit poo on the road! Cheers, David

All other pics can be found here http://s124.photobucket.com/user/rooster7358/library/Westfield/Clan%20McWesty%20Highland%20Run%20May%202015?sort=2&page=1

http://us3.campaign-archive2.com/?u=b52e1a17bbc3d20ba998b9fdd&id=b77daec1e8&e=[uNIQID] hope this works for people cheers john

I'm booked up

John You need to carry a spare battery!

Hi everyone, I've decided that I want to be a Westie owner and would really appreciate your advice and guidance. Very impressed with the friendlyness and have spent many hours reading your forum. I'm looking for something with a reasonable build quality and I plan to use the car for a combination of road & competition. I'm pretty competant mechanically, but don't really want to go down the new build route. I know from experience that buying something that is ready to roll and then improving it to suit myself can work out cheaper and less work than to start from scratch. My budget is only around 6 to 8 k, realistically, which I know is at the low end of the scale. I don't really want to go crossflow or pinto (they seem to be the majority of cheaper cars) I know how good the Zetec and GM 16 valve engines are, but I used to own a mark 1 MR2 with the fab little 4age engine, and know that would cool too. I'm a biker, and would love to go down the megablade (or similar route), and I guess the principle advantage over a red / black / silver top engine is their low weight ? But of course I am aware of the problems with oil surge and no reverse gear. I know that many bike engine cars have reverse in the diff. Are they okay? I must have reverse, because of where I live. I wouldn't rule out buying a part finished build, but don't know how much they are worth compared to a finished car? Plus the hassle of getting it through IVA. I seen this on Ebay - 271874390238, seems like a lot of money to me, what do you think? Also not a fan of the CVH engine. Maybe I'm wrong, but in the Escorts and stuff I've driven, my impression has been a little rattly and short of breath? To stand a half decent chance of doing okay in competition how much power should I be looking to achieve. 150 bhp perhaps? Anyway, I hope I haven't bored you too much and look forward to your advice. Many thanks Jono p.s. I'm in Lincolnshire

Welcome from another north east member. Looks like a cracking car that! Our area meets at the Church Mouse nr Chester le St. so not far.

Julie tell "Euro Glen" to keep his chin up, as it can only get worse with age!

Bog off .. your toilet humour is taking the p***!

I would have cleaned all your cars for you, if you had paid me time and a turd.

In reality, if you are both a similar age and experience, the insurer won't be too bothered. Where they do get funny is where the named driver is a young driver on an older drivers policy such as parent and child. If the child is the main user, this is called fronting and it can end up with policies being voided if not declared and correctly rated.

Ah Mobil 1; the power off advertising never fails to amaze me...

If looking to compete, you wouldn't go far wrong with Woodman's car assuming you can fit in a narrow David

What is a Shows and Events Coordinator? Principally, the role is to provide a repeatable format for three or more shows and events a year (inc’ Stoneleigh) and to provide members with the behind the scenes organisation and easy access to the kit and equipment needed for these. The role will not be one of 100% organisation, but as the title suggests, will coordinate to enable Members to do their own thing easily and quickly. There is much work to be done over the coming weeks/months to get this into shape but it’s getting there. I know there is a keenness to have a big presence at Gaydon this summer and I’ll work to achieve that. Beyond Gaydon, I’ll be looking for further suggestions of the bigger events and shows we should be attending and we’ll also be incorporating WSC into some of those as well as tagging along on some of their own initiatives. I’d welcome further thoughts on the role and the events you want to be a part of but for now, generally what we will aim to offer is as follows: Central location for storing all of the show and events kit and equipment Easy access to the kit and an audit trail Assistance with transportation of kit if necessary Liaison with show and event organisers to get ourselves booked in A how-to guide to enable Members to more easily organise themselves Management of the show and event stock, replacing older items as necessary Engagement at WSCC Committee level to ensure we have all we need for a successful event I’ll set out the full aims at some stage soon and would welcome comment and feedback when the time comes. For now though, I think a number of key things need to be addressed: Full audit of our kit, replacing things not up to par Documented how-to guide on getting the lit the kit you need for your event Set a date and coordinate Gaydon this summer As has been said, the role is one of coordination and it needs you to suggest and run your own event. I will do the back-end work and make everything available to you and I suspect we should consider covering everything from local car shows, county shows, etc. some of the bigger sprints, the big name car shows and meet your neighbours events and perhaps an annual coast to coast or similar. There is a form attached, use this request WSCC kit and to start to coordination ball rolling for your suggested event. Thoughts welcomed, be gentle… request form.docx

Great run yesterday…Human Sh*t now washed off. I've come to the conclusion, I either need more horse power or driving lessons, maybe both... Anyway great day out, good bunch of lads…even picked up a couple in a Seven on the A9...

Yet another rendezvous at public conveniences cousin Julie (TBC) …….. We'll be there anyway

I'll also try put something together Terry

Also entered see you there, let's hope for the same weather

Will be entered soon. Just can't get my butt out the hot tub

FANTASTIC run today guys! One of the best Scottish Westie runs I've been on - and only around 300 miles! For those of you who need to know - human sh*t washes off far easier than cow sh*t........ Hope everyone had a good run home. Matt

Might be a bit like Les Dawson playing the piano by I'll try !

Not sure how much work you plan, but that looks like the early type. It's worth checking if it came off a car with kit bodywork, if it did, the profile will be different to the current ZK bodywork. (It will be narrower across the top, and different curves to the ends - all workable with, but just something to be aware of.)

There has been many a thread in these forums that prove we're all clueless idiots because cars will make each of us look like one at some point! I've started a couple of threads myself about issues I've had and wished later I hadn't.