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Just to say a huge thank you to Scott (ex Chairman and now Capt Colonial) for all the work over many years getting the WSCC back on course when he took over Membership Sec all that time ago, then onto becoming Chairman steering the WSCC course for the betterment of all - Thank You, happy retirement and of course to the new Chairman Andy - Good Luck

Driving back up the road, she kept saying she was sad to be leaving and wished we could start Saturday all over again! That to me has made my weekend.

My lad Joe also really enjoyed it. As the weekend progressed he started offering banter out which made me chuckle, no idea where he gets that from He spent the whole journey back talking about next year, when he is going to get his Westfield etc etc

Thanks for the kind words. It is of course because of what Scott, the committee and the wider membership have achieved over the last few years that I even considered the role. I know I have a tidy ship to sail and I'll do all I can to keep it that way and with your ideas and continued support, perhaps make it even better.

Anna was a little star. She worked tirelessly all weekend from Saturday painting lines, to Monday working on the refreshments. Good to see to new member in the making. She will certainly be very welcome next year. Glad she enjoyed herself.

Quite a few members commented that they enjoyed seeing the spannering efforts this year - there are lots of (hopefully smaller!) examples for future years that could run in a 'controlled' area. Constantly moving ourselves and tools around was a hindrance we could avoid if pre-planned. Or we could have a 'minor repairs' or 'ask an expert' area instead for fixing niggly faults* on members cars (that often appear on the drive to the show) *excluding Crossflow oil leaks, @Robin (Red Spider) - Yorkshire AO

Another great Stoneleigh for me and my family, enjoyed meeting up with folks again, some who I only get chance to at the show and also meeting new faces from the forum . I also seem to still be sane after helping organize the show with two great guys @Trevturtle and @Stuart Faulkner - Shows & Events Coordinator Hall 2 speed series went down a treat with big thanks to @John Williams - WSCC Competition Secretary and the SS troops. Hopefully we can make next year even better and build on this years shows events and feedback, I am already googling snore proof tents and hurricane resistant marquees

show? SHOW?? You mean there was a show and I missed it while I was fixing an old car? I heard some loud exhausts and squealing tyres - didn't realise there was a show though! Somebody should have said

I bought a complete installed throttle body upgrade and got wonderful memories, terrific friends and a truckload of kindness for free!

I was on the hall 2 speed series stand we had a lot of peopole coming up to ask about different options of cars the in and outs of ownership , trying cars for fit , often once they got in they were hooked and thats without a ride in a westy , alot of interested owners were wary about the cars being too fast and scary to drive as owners we were able to give them our experience of westy ownership , not only did we promote the speed series but the club the forumn and more importantly the marque

Thanks for the heads up Martin - you have PM. We used to do this and it worked, we will do this next year. Indeed, nuff said. Just wanting to tie this up. I've seen the post as best I can as I'm not on facebook. I have no intention of getting involved. Please, if you must respond as some already have, continue to keep it positive and it must be personal i.e. not as a WSCC member. I have no wish for this drag on and no wish for any member of any club to get excited about it. From what I saw, we spent more time moving tintops as they wrongly interpreted the security gates instructions (suspect this was why the kit cars were there too) and we also aided many others in finding their own club spots (I pointed a gent in the direction of Cobra and saw him there an hour later all smiles). It's all good Now back on topic...

The misses bought me a clock..... Recycling at its best.

All I can say is that I echo what Mr chairman has said and thank all that helped with a massive THANKYOU. Its good to see so many members bringing their wives and children along and helping out. The Weather helped but it was a good show anyway but then I would say that

As above, patience, patience, patience. We're happy to help, when you see a car you're interested in, put up a link in here and we will give our honest opinions. One of us may even be available to go with you and look at it in person. With Westfields it's less the age and much more the condition and love gone into it. You can see a car full of expensive parts and owned and / or built by a muppet that will drain your bank account, or one that's clearly been loved and cherished - a binder full of paperwork and old tax discs is a pretty good clue. Do not be tempted to buy a car you think you can spend a couple of thousand to upgrade - that way poverty lies. Wait for the right car, it will come along. However, as you're in Sutton Coldfield, old WSCC wisdom indicates you will find your ideal car not in the West Midlands but either at Land's End, Dover, or the Orknies - in other words, prepare to travel and get soaked driving it home. Best of luck, joining the club was your best first step, well done.

I suspect that if someone makes it to the show, sees all that membership offers and still doesn't feel like joining, they're probably not for changing (and clearly bonkers)...

First time in 31 years (!!) I have been to this show and was immensely impressed by the efforts put in by all on the Owners club stand, well organised, professional but more importantly - incredibly friendly. Wished I could have stayed over Sunday night but will be camping and volunteering next year without a doubt Somehow, my 9 year old son managed to fall asleep in my car (no windscreen etc) literally 2 mins after leaving the showground and was asleep all the way up the M6 and across the M54

As you have seen from the feedback, Stoneleigh 2017 was @marcusb, @Stuart Faulkner - Shows & Events Coordinator and my first time organising the event. We all intend to continue this year and organise Stoneleigh 2018 , but would welcome anyone who would like to join the team. We had an excellent handbook from @Andy Banks - Chairman and @Ian Tolfree (tolf) - North London AO to guide us through the first year and added/changed the weekend based on your 2016 feedback and some of our own ideas. We split the workload between the three of us, easily sharing the work and worked around our own work and family commitments. What is involved?... Activities start slowly early November, booking the main components by email e.g. space at Stoneleigh, marquee From December to March activities involve emailing suppliers, sponsors and a call very month. Things get a little busier after mid March. How much time do I need? You don't have to be available for the whole period from November until April, we can assign activities based on peoples availability and skills. If you are interested in joining the team for 2018 please contact us, and we can talk through any questions you have. I enjoyed working with all the club members to make the weekend a success Thanks and hope to hear from you soon

Huge thanks to everyone who donned a blue tee and got on with the weekend. It was as slick as I've ever seen it and of course very impressive from all angles as ever. Special mention to this year's organising team @Trevturtle, @marcusb and @Stuart Faulkner - Shows & Events Coordinator for putting on a great show and organising all the show kit. You made it look easy, I know it isn't - thank you.

I'm all out of "like this" for today. The boardroom isn't designed for this time of year with so much to like...

It was gone midnight when we were 'kicked out' of Farmers Fayre Was a brill evening!

Another thing to consider is the first shift of the day needs to start earlier. I think the rota had it for 10am start, but people were getting into the show earlier than that. I jumped on the autojumble not long after 9am to help out for an hour or so as there were lots of people appearing wanting to place things on the table. I know there are a lot of us around that have been there since set up day that can dive in to help, but maybe double up people earlier in the day on certain areas?

Agreed, that is why I said why dont we just take the money and keep it safe. If the buyer wants to haggle, they have to wait for the seller to appear. If they are happy to pay the asking price, just take the money, record it on a list and let them take the item. If the seller does not collect his money - give it to charity

Auto jumble is a great facility and well used, however from an 'aesthetics' view point it was by far the least 'attractive image' in the marque. How's this - put our small marque as was against the big un but placed to suit an opening to access between the two for the 'auto jumble annex'. Then use the extra space inside to create 1) 2018 'Live Upgrade' (cordoned off with explanatory signage) and possibly 2) a small seated area near the 'cafe' The TV would have been better away from membership and much higher for viewing. And a sturdy support would help, as fragility for potentially being knocked over was why it was placed behind.

Tolf, looks like we may have gotten away with it....

I was on the member services / name badge area for a few hours on Sunday. At 9.30 all the pre-printed badges were in 1 A to Z file. It took me less than 20 seconds to find my name tear out the badge and slot it into the holder. From 11 till 2 I was manning the area, by then the pages had been spread across the table, lots of stray badges floating around and in general a nightmare to find a name. Its very easy to sort this one: I'm guessing the sheets were removed from the A to Z file to aid tearing out the requested badge. I'd recommend (and don't mind doing the job next year) tearing them all out and popping into a suitable long narrow box so they can be kept alphabetically all day and retrieved at ease without needing to remove the sheet, tear along perforations and then slot it into a holder. Alternatively: sticky labels (which could be peeled off without removing sheets from the file) could be used although probably not as durable as the pin on holders. Printing on demand is fine until the printer / PC throws a wobbler (been there done that) which leaves no backup.

Thanks to everybody involved in the Stoneleigh WSCC stand. I had a really good time and was made to feel welcome. Loved the hog roast and the free ale, (still had a headache when I got home Monday, but managed to hide it from the wife). Special thanks to the guy who gave my son the Westfield slalom ticket too! ATB Ian

As above, brilliant weekend and as a bonus had dry runs there and back! Apologies to any campers who pitched near me, my beer assisted slumber may have been interspersed with the "occasional" snoozing sound... next year bring earplugs Again I'd like to echo the thanks to all concerned - brilliant job by the events team that ran with military precision which, as has been said, made our club stand head and shoulders above every other. Roll on Blyton and Silverstone, can't wait!

I was not going to mention it @Trevturtle but I saw this yesterday at Ironbridge and weirdly I thought of you. It was a great laugh. For those that don't know, Glen and I were not on the volunteers list at the gate, so Glen had to pay to get in.

A great big thank you for a brilliant Stoneleigh, not quite sure how you sorted the weather out for Sunday, but you even got that right. Thank you from Glen and Julie

'They got to the gate and they were not on the list''.........Mark, 'Gulp'

After much sole searching and meeting good friends and new friends at Stoneleigh and building and owning the car for so long I have decided to keep the Westfield. Thanks everyone Ron

Well actually no it didn't One of the biggest challenges when trying to fit the CVH engine into our project car was, would the bonnet go on afterwards. Obviously we spent hours meticulously measuring and comparing the position of the engine in the chassis with my other car "Marilyn", before the body was reunited with the rest of the car, only to find out we were about 20mm high right at the front of the engine. To cut a long and stressful story short, because we didn't want a power bulge in the bonnet, a company called Fibet came to our rescue. They manufacture Isolation Mounts in all shapes sizes and specs for automotive as well as industrial use . I contacted them via their website explained the issue and what we were trying to do. To my surprise they responded almost immediately explained that the item we needed was out of stock, but they would be doing a production run in the next two weeks. True to their word two weeks later I get a package in the post with the new engine mounts supplied completely free of charge including p&p... Fantastic!!! Who said customer service was dead, it's alive and very well at www.fibet.co.uk for sure After getting home from Stoneleigh on Sunday parked the two cars in the drive next to each other for the first time. Now it's easy to see why we had so much trouble when you compare the project car to Marilyn in the background. All worked out well in the end.... anybody looking for a nice 1989 SEi only covered 1600 miles from new G.

My good friends @Julie Hall - AO Representative, Peak District AO and Glen reported this morning they lost a glove somewhere on the Westfield pitch yesterday. I'm sure she'll find a picture to help identify it? I didn't find it, sorry. Is this it?

Just to let you know I had to reboot the server, so apologies for the short period of inactivity - but nobody to blame but me

It coincided with me commenting on Stu's Gulf pants - I assumed that broke it

He probably just paints himself blue and slings on an orange mankini for that racking stripe look!

And we've already seen you sneaking off to letch over some new seats...

I think I'm going to be sick. I think the Captain is.......

Quite often the difference between a reasonably comfortable ride and a bone-jarring one is literally 5 minutes with a footpump (lower tyre pressures) and careful counting of 'clicks' on the damper adjustment. Other times it might need a change in springs, ride height or even dampers and wheels. So 'no and yes' to your question - many cars ride badly, but they don't necessarily have to... A bit more info would really help - like a picture of the rear ride height, wheel size, tyre pressures and a picture of the shocks. Don't start 'randomly' adjusting anything though without a bit of a plan... There are some real suspension experts on the forum that will be able to offer sensible suggestions on where to start looking, like @DamperMan , @BLiNK Motorsport and @AdamR

A hose joiner to bypass a leaky bit on the discovery... ... which promptly decided to leak a different fluid the very next day.

Fernando is behind us, wants us to sort his mclaren out once we're done with Scott's car.

First off, we should thank the membership for really good support and shear numbers a tremendous turn out fantastic !!!!!!!!! Secondly we should thank the committee (Incoming and Retiring) for probably the best well organized club event's I've had the privilege to attend. The unsung volunteers who gave their time to make this show one of the best ever,all very professional. I deliberately visited the Cateringvan area and it resembled a pub car park I think Westfield, and all our trade friends must be very well pleased with our efforts. We need to keep up the support, the help and guidance we share as like minded enthusiast's, it was very encouraging to talk to members of the public (potential future members) I look forward to Silverstone Finally, Stuart the shoes just demonstrated the W.S.C.C. can also produce fashion icons

Absolutely! When Gary and myself triangulated the noise bearings from our tents, the loudest disturbing volume was definitively emmited from the Gadgettent @Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Secretary

No Dave - that was your snores reverberating off the surrounding buildings

Yes, I can honestly say that's the best Stoneleigh I've ever been too. I honestly didn't think, as an owners club, with the resources we have, we could push much beyon where we had already got to. But every organizing team we've had, past as well as present, seem to manage to pull quantum leaps out of the bag, every time. I don't know how you do it, but thank you, I'm damn glad you do! The hog roast was fantastic, they really did us proud with that one, the beer was excellent, and quantities jusdged nigh on perfectly. The new tent layout, both internally, and with open sides was a stroke of genius in my opinion and really "lifted" the stand to another level. Less was deffinately more, inside the marquee. Thanks guy's. And thanks to all the fellow members, old and new, that kept the stand busy and buzzing for three days solid.

Between you and @Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Secretary the snoring was relentless My son and I had foam earplugs in use but they failed to block it out Next year we need a seperate area within the camping with soundproofing for the snorers

Anna was also tireless on the Autojumble on Sunday, what a little trooper!

Really looking forward to this and so ready for the break. it cannot come fast enough and so looking forward to joining you all.

TEL's TALES 04/17 Ty Croes, Angelsey weekend 29th/30th April 2017 This event was run by MG car club (NW) with 2 laps of the National circuit on Saturday and 1 lap of the International on Sunday. The weather for all 9 Westfield drivers was very windy and very cold but despite the weather forecast it did not rain apart from a few early showers on Saturday morning during practice.. The big bonus was that it was a medium sized entry, well run and we got loads of runs particularly on Sunday. From a personal perspective I was happy to be back in action as I had clutch failure and then the big ends went at start of April so I have had almost zero seat time and not really scored any points. I have installed another blade engine and used the honda HRC kit ECU and Powercommander V, so had to get it on the rolling road again. I do hate watching as the engine is mapped and has it neck rung at in excess of 14000rpm and watching the oil pressure , water temp, etc is very traumatic. Happily all went well and it produced some reasonable figures. I have also had to work with Steve changing his gearbox after an expensive rebuild due to the cost of quaife gears. Thanks to Graham Millar for a brilliant service and quick turnround. Saturday Some of our southern softie drivers were sharing a garage and quite early on Saturday they were working on changing John Loudon’s alternator as it failed during the start of practice which he missed (lucky he had a spare and had previously driven the circuit so knew where the corners were). I got to the noise test only to find out that my tacho was not reading the correct revs so I just blagged it and got through. It was clear that apart from the Westfield classes there would be some “personal battles” going on and some quick times were expected. In the timed runs I was one of the first to have problems as in T1my flatshifter decided to give up the ghost and have me missing gear shifts so I was not amused and disconnected it for the weekend….now I had to learn how to change gear using the clutch. Steve was having his usual battle with Mick Skidmore who started to lose oil from his gearbox. Steve Carpenter and Roz spent ages helping a guy called Chris in his ailing Westfield which appeared to have sensor or wiring problems but they kept it going all weekend using a spare battery Steve had. As the day went on it became clear that some of the target times were going to be very difficult to achieve ( class G ??) We had one practice of 2 laps and the track was cold with limited grip. During the day things got a little better but it was hard to go faster. Dave Cleaver in class H on slicks, chased by John Hoyle set the pace and did a 106.65secs against a target of 106.37secs. John Hoyle scored high again as he beat the class F target with 109.77secs on his last run. John Loudon beat me in class G with a good drive and 110.26secs against a very hard target of 107.94secs. Steve Everall was wearing odd shoes on each foot for some reason. I thought it was some new speed enhancing technique but it was because he was having trouble with a painful left foot!. The evening was great as we all ate together in the bar and had a good craic until we were thrown out. Sunday Mark Bishop was out first still running in a true road going class and finding the targets hard but had a smile on his face all weekend. Dave Cleaver was constantly adjusting his car geometry and I joined in, using the flat garage floor, to adjust my nearside front camber. John Loudon was convinced that he needed wider front tyres as his new slicks were getting some severe abuse on the fast International layout and my new slicks were not looking much better. The times were not consistently available to drivers as they finished, so a few of managed to get onto the TSL website for live timings. Fastest 3 in practice were Dave Cleaver 87.15secs, John Hoyle ( on ZZR tyres) 88.73secs and me on 90.33 secs. At the end of T1 John Hoyle had problems with the clutch cable needing adjustment and I had an exhaust manifold pipe fracture almost in half. Once again the Westfield “crew” sprung into action and with an old diet coke can, some jubilee clips, snips and some gloves to stop hands being burnt a repair was effected and I have to thank all those who helped including Dave Cleaver, Steve Carpenter, Roz Kennett, Mick Skidmoe etc . I hardly got involved and the repair was great. In the end we had 5 timed runs and set some good times. Dave Cleaver was once again fastest with 85.77secs and beating target. John Hoyle beat the target with 88.128secs against the 89.50secs target and packed in after two runs. I managed to get revenge against John Loudon and our times were very quick with 88.13secs and 88.44secs against a target of 88.02secs. Steve Carpenter had gone well all weekend but his ST 170 engine expired with big ends knocking on the last run. Roz Kennett was very pleased to pick up the fastest Lady award. So a great weekend and enjoyed by all with some good drives on the ragged edge. A few repairs and I hope tpo be out and see some of you at Snetterton Terry Everall Class G competitor .

I had a fantastic three days as a volunteer. Muchly Muchly TA ALL, especially main organisers! Westfields, Great food, beer and people - what more could one want! Great Marquee as usual, with open sides making it more inviting and accesable. The video/photo show a great new touch. Scott leaving with a working engine. An 'Upgrade' would work as a regular feature imo. I especially feel the Speed Series presence was best I've ever seen and far more inviting to potential newbies, so we'll done @John Williams - WSCC Competition Secretary & SS team.