Leaderboard

Many people know mine is called The Wench, but fewer know why. It’s because she’s colourful, flashy, noisy, demanding, hates being ignored, likes it rough, smokes a bit, drinks like a fish, strictly for amusement, prefers to have her top off, and if you’re inside her for more than an hour your bum goes numb.

My wife calls mine a Wheely bin. Well, its green and plastic ..

Plain and simply “Tommy” after my dad who encouraged me in all sorts of car naughtiness and never got his own “7” due to me arriving

Mines is called Frankie... but I never refer to her like this. Why? well... Back in Spain, owning an MK and being part of a club called Lighweight maniacs... we was following UK forums and sharing amusing or interesting content between us for a laught. When @AdamR started all the technical treads developing the car, we used to follow them and call her Frankie... because it looked chunky, fast and aggressive. (like Dr Frankenstein monster) I never thought I would end buying the car several years later.

Mine even though I refer to the car as a she/her is known as Moses As it parts traffic under acceleration

Bromance

My first was named Roary by my son ... as it's red and looks like Roary the Racing Car (starring Peter Kay). The second is Maverick and was named by a previous owner in the mid naughties.

Bagpuss-named by @Julie Hall - AO Representative, Peak District AO as my pi55 poor flower knowledge suggested Primrose, given @Geoffrey (Buttercup) - North Yorkshire AO naming!

Looking over the Lammermuir hills

“The mid life crisis”. More to do with me than the car.. the wife has far less flattering names for it.

Mines called Ruby When I went to see her she was in a bright showroom full of Ferrari's she stood out because of the darker colour

I had better go next then. Mine is called RITA after the ride at Alton Towers - RITA The Queen of Speed. I don't have to go to Alton Towers to get my thrills anymore. Naming services can be provided foc

Day 7 - Sat 9th June Up with the lark, on our way west by 7.30. Dry, but cloudy, bit chilly, glad of the heater. Nice roads through Tenterden, Haywards Heath, and on to Petworth where we stopped for Breakfast in Tiffins Tea Room. Nice welcoming place, friendly service, good food and coffee. Highly recommend it if your thirsty or hungry in Petworth. Refreshed, we carried on west through Petersfield, Winchester and Salisbury, then headed towards the A303. Stopped for a quick snack lunch at the Black Dog Inn at Chilmark. From here we picked up the A303 just east of Mere (deliberately avoided it around Stonehenge!), not long after we were home, having covered a total of 1020 miles. Tucked Westie in the garage, staright to kennels and collected our dogs, both of whom seemed really glad to see us. Verdict A great trip, we both enjoyed immensely, weather could have been better, but we laughed it off. Car went like a dream after initial hiccup. Have checked it over and found nothing of concern. Checked and tightened all air hoses, been following up on water hoses as a matter of course! Did find that of the 4 nuts holding the fan onto the rad, 1 was missing, the others were still in place but finger tight. Have now fitted secondary locknuts. I didn't fit nylocs deliberately, as I was worried about shearing the M6 stud off where it's welded to an Ali bracket. The various grounding I've done has all been on the chassis hoop as far as I can see, so really pleased, Dread to think what it would have been like had I norpt changed the sump and done the cooling system mods. Half hood has been baptised, and worked a treat. Found the heater was really useful for de misting, and taking the chill off on fresh days. Up on stands for check over after washing Nose off to check and tighten air hoses! Chassis hoop been doing its job! Thank you for reading, hope it's not been too boring. Adge

Meet at Artist Corner Car Park, Matlock, DE4 3PS at 10.30am for a drive north through some of the Peak District's finest scenery to arrive at The Rambler Inn, Edale just in time for lunch, with views over the Mam Tor ridge. For anyone wanting more, we will wiggle a route back down and finish with tea and cake. It is Father's Day so I am not expecting anyone to be able to join us, but just in case you can I am posting it up, ever the optimist.

My first one was called jenny after my mum it had her initials on the number plate hadn't realised until i got it it home. Second one was call jenson because he was more hard-core same reg. This one is called Dev spotted his name on the inlet manifold

‘Rosie’ because the wife likes to name things..

I have too be honest the quality of the bodywork is outstanding and westfield have done an awesome job of matching the colour i got them . I was having my doubts when waiting for the bodywork if i had made the right decision but now its here I'm over the moon with it Ash

an Epic road trip! Thanks for sharing.

How did you get a picture of my bonnet before me?

This was two years ago, but I love it,thanks Marcus.

So last Weds we travelled up to Valley in Angelsey for a cheap stop over at the Valley Hotel £48 per night and it was ok for that sort of money! Thursday we did the track day at Angelsey - superb weather and possibly the best track day I have ever had Only down side was that Kev broke the gearbox on the MK later in the afternoon

Following day it was Black Mountain Pass (now 40mph speed limit) and the Elan Valley We only had an our or so rain on our last day so this time Wales was very, very good to us !!!

In the vening we travelled down to Dinas Mawdy for a place to stay for the next three nights - the Dolbrodmeath Riverside Following day we did the EVO triangle, Llanberis Pass and Black Rock Sands - plus other stuff

On the track day was AdamR who was having a fantastic time drifting a Westfield around the track with a couple of m8s Adam also offered me some great advise on car setup which really helped me along thanks M8 and apologies for scooting off without saying goodbye

Having been with the club for a couple of years now we now know nearly as many Westfields names as we do members, but what are the stories behind the names? Ours, as some of you know is Mrs P. We were asked why Mrs P very early on by @Julie Hall - AO Representative, Peak District AO and to us it's simple. Mrs as it's Gail's car and the P is for pipe dream, one we are now actually living.

Same place I got mine from but their supplier were discontinuing the black ones. I ended up painting a set of the stainless ones. Looks a very nice trip adge.

Adge, Excellent write up, I’m now looking for windscreen wipers like yours but in black. Nice ‘kiss’ on the gearbox rail - after nearly 20k miles mine’s now about 1/3rd of the way through and slightly bend back. See you next week on the way to Shelsey, Jon

Now confirmed that they made a mistake and will change the Regs to show that the Speed Series are invited so you can enter the event

It came from Simon at WF, I have been badgering him for weeks about it though !

It's, perhaps, less of what they lived in than what they lived on! Fascinating part of the world and your excellent films make it more likely that we'll go and spend some time with the midges again.

That is fantastic, I have a massive grin on my face at work, everybody is asking why

@Peter (Monty) can you please PM me some info Which page precisely this appears on - there's thousands of members, so which one(s) What network, mobile or wifi Finally send me the link generated by whatismybrowser.com using the same device, browser and network. I'll try and get a look, but am on holiday, so might not get time due to the requirement to go blatting in the Valleys

What a great read and thanks for the amazing pictures it really is a delight to read of others adventures, glad you had fun and we’re able to laugh at times too

Superb write up, oh to be retired!! Glad all went well, I make a habit of checking our accommodation entrance/ parking by google maps as have fell foul of the dreaded cambers! Becky hates going anywhere where we get grounded. Well done both for your first of many adventures, Andy and Becky

Ok, feel like I can contribute now I just passed my IVA today

Looks like you had a top trip, thanks for sharing the snaps!

Nice picture!! Next time I need to go to the hairdresser before the photo session!!

Thank you for all the birthday greetings and yes, there was cake involved in the day. We went yomping through the Peak District on Bleaklow, which included a drive up and down the Snake Pass, followed by a meal in the Ladybower Inn with Bakewell Tart for afters. We had planned to eat at the Snake Inn but the barrier is across the car park and it is all shut up with a For Sale sign on it!

I made 148 with my 4age on twin 40’s

Would love to but it's Fathers Day and the kids haven't yet worked out that a day without kids would be the best present

One of my winter projects was to make a spare tyre cover - didn't start it 'til April and finally got round to finishing it last night, just in time for the McWestie run today.

And some more

Today we caught the 7.45 ferry back to the mainland saying goodbye to orkney and it’s stunning people and places heading west again we fuelled up at Thurso before stopping at an old wrecked fishing boat, moin house, smoo cave and Durness From here we headed south ish visiting an old castle and onto Ullapool for chips and fuel then it was east ish to corrieasoch gorge ( I know the spelling is wrong) and onto strathpeffer where we are booked into the most wonderful bed n breakfast you could imagine, it truly is regal, safe to say Geoffrey surpassed himself finding this one and poor Trina had her mouth open as she was shown round

The current wife has said that there isnt much t shirt and shorts wearing going on, so cant be that warm. I just said that I would fear for any childs eyesite seing either Gary or Geoffrey in shorts ...................of heaven forbid a mankini

Just to round off our stay on orkney had a convivial evening of campfire, cook out and laughter along with stunning views , piece and quiet and then as tommorow we start south played a Scottish folk tune ( slightly modified) westying Home with a song in the air lol ....

It's ok Dave. The scenery is here all year round. The «issues» only happen once a year when a certain person from Englandshire comes to visit us and causes mild havoc and lots of fun in his yellow machine, together with whoever wishes to join him (I suppose that includes me!). We have the remainder of the year to recover! So it's safe to move up to the Highlands (at least for 50 weeks of the year).

A wee clip of old stromness

So Sunday we’ve had a day out in stromness, a lazy day did the museum and drove through the old part of the town, some fun and bonding........ a long day tommorow with an early start to catch the ferry back to the mainland then head for Durness round and down to strathpeffer so having a chill out and a bondfire n barbie on the beach later

Well after a plate of essential sustanence... off we headed the land lady’s partner was at a moto x event so we went and watched before heading off to see the ring of Brodgar and Skara Brae Neolithic village then this evening went back to the track for an evening meal and chat and relaxed with our hosts saw a farm house with flagstones ont roof .....

Love the tiny tomatoes as a ploy to healthier eating.....