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Merry Christmas to one and all from not so sunny Alberta Canada.

New fuel pump delivered and fitted. I now have a car that starts! I just need some time over Xmas to progress my build now!

Whilst I agree with Scott about mobility scooters and bicycles, it is this sort of potential action that made me want to leave the EU. It wasn't anything to do with foreigners in Britain, or whether I could live in Europe or not, but to do with the threat of Draconian laws being foisted upon us by people we cannot vote out. Okay, I may be thick and bigoted according to the irritable people whom the media keep trotting out, so I'll ask my son not to bring his Chinese girlfriend over from Australia and send back my Mensa membership card!

Good morning Guys and Gals, There has been much talk over the past two or three years in relation to the number of people competing in Motorsport, and that includes our prestigious Speed Series Championship. There are many reasons for this including financial crashes, MSA rule changes and dare I say it our own successes. We now have a record number of events to choose from, and clearly we cannot attend them all! My intention in helping run the Speed Series Facebook page is to capture the moment of SS, add the fun factor back in and generally promote what we do and why we love it. The more people that can see this the better chance we have of promoting new competitors, spectators and who knows maybe even future Champions! So who am I? For those who don't know, I'm Richard Kerr (Scottish Bloke) and have been around the club and Westfield's for around 15 years. My passion for the sunburst started a little before this and due to a change in circumstances I was able to buy my first Westfield in 2003. Having joined our local club and meeting Nick (Algar) the rest is history. I started competing in the Speed Series the following year in a very tidy red narrow body car. Within several events I managed to win the class I was in and graduated to a more powerful car, very long and expensive story short, the Speed Series Bug had bitten. (I blame Nick) I have been lucky enough to compete at a reasonable level every year since and still regard my Championship win in 2009 as one of my finest life achievements and something I'm incredibly proud of. Speed Series has been a huge part of my life and is somewhere I have met the majority of the people I call my closest friends. I personally feel that promotion via Facebook will help greatly in promoting our series to a much wider audience. It'll be a place where you can post pics and videos from events 'as they happen' straight from your phone. Whilst we can do some of these things on the boardroom, we are only alerting SS competitors or boardroom members and the 'instant hit' capturing the moment isn't possible. The SS FB page will be monitored and administrated by myself and other boardroom officials, who are all very keen to keep the page SS focused and in no way should detract from boardroom activity. Posts that are not relevant will be removed. Boardroom will remain the place for rules, MSA changes, Results, Tel's Tales, target times or raise Technical Queries, this must be done through the correct channels on the boardroom as is done currently. Over the next few days you may receive an invite from me to join the page, or by all means add yourself. Please remember, this is a Speed Series page, photos of your Christmas dinner, your dog stuck in the chimney after chasing Santa, or granny's teeth in the custard jug may be tolerated but Speed Series Chat fun and banter in the main please. Please drop me a PM with any ideas you have to include on the page, I'll probably start things off with a Driver/car bio and take things from there building the page and the audience. Merry Speed Series Christmas and an Upgragey New Year Find us here https://www.facebook.com/WSCCSpeedSeries/ Rich

Hi all, just bought a 89 narrow bodied low line without a engine and box. The car was professionally built but has hardly covered any miles. First job is to pick up a crossflow engine and gearbox then find a twin weber inlet manifold then it should be on the road just waiting for the cosmetics then. Many years ago I used to build kit cars for a living and my ex busines partner used to work for Westfield years ago so his ears are going to get bent a lot.

Background: Sep 2017 is a point at which I may take early retirement (age 54), circumstances mean that taking my reduced pension then will give me the same pension income as if i retire in 2020 (I'ts complicated), and I'm pretty fed up with working in the MOD so leaving asap is actually something to look forward to. Now I'm not ready for the knackers yard, I have plenty of things to keep me occupied but I wouldn't turn my nose up at a part time job. I'm not sure my skills gained in many posts within the MOD are readily transferable, boiling them down to Nuclear Safety Assurance, Risk Auditing, Project Management, Programme Management and Project Management Office, my qualifications are in Mechanical Engineering, Auditing and Project Management, so a bit of muddle really. The future: If i were to try and dabble in consultancy work, how do I set up a consultancy business, and actually getting some work? Or, would I be better touting myself around the big consultancy companies and in effect work for them? Or, if some of you have been in a similar position what have you done? Cheers Ian

Merry Christmas, I hope your A*** defrosts.

Merry Christmas. You look very festive.

Welcome from Essex. That's proper and it's great to hear that another mighty crossflow will be singing!

Hello and welcome from Sunny Manchester

2016 claims yet another musical great............sad news.

Well after my interior strip out today to shorten the gear lever and then take the kids ( 23 and 13 !) to see Star Wars while the wife 'sorted out ' the presents. I come home to a confession . My nice clean hoovered Westie has been filled with presents under is cover...................... confession is that a 'wad' of glitter has sprinkled all over the carpets and seats...................... I know you will never get rid of the stuff................ ever............ for farks sake................

sadly we only do freeview here , you must be a very proud Dad though Bazzer !

Gary, you have PM.

You fool lol

I had a girlfriend like that once...

Must set the sky record, Have been watching Jacob's progress on FB amazing how fast he has improved

Shame you can't join Steve I was looking forward to having a try with the new steering, thanks for the help with the discount, every little helps

Especially as no one has been there before.............

Happy to help. I can't make it to this one this one as I'm racing at Donington the next day, TBH I didn't know you guys were looking at it until Chris mentioned it .

I, for one, am all in favour of mobility scooter operators needing third party insurance. Some of them are lethal out there on the pavements, and also drive down streets as if they were immortal. And while we're at it, make cyclists have third party insurance as well.

I'm currently getting an Invisi-rad