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Collected the car from the factory last Wednesday afternoon - but forgot to take any pictures at the factory (too keen to get driving)!! Managed to take a few over the next couple of days in between the bouts of heavy rain. The rain certainly made for an "interesting" couple of hundred miles trip on Friday from Northants up to Lancaster ready for the ferry crossing on Saturday to IoM. In its new home Saturday night: Final photos from a quick run out to the Laxey wheel this evening.

Here is my Westy, this is a early post lit (1990) 1650 crossflow. Only owned for 2 week and love it!

We had a few power cuts at work in quick succession which took out a load of equipment on of which is a large static inverter which we use to power a load of American equipment at 208v 3 phase @60Hz up to 500 Amps When we switched it back on it went bang taking out 2 1100A fuses Just for an Idea of size the nuts on the ends are M12 not the sort of thing you can get if the shelf and your local electrical wholesalers Certainly made me jump when I switched it on

If anyone buying the car needs it to have an MOT then that will be arranged at no extra cost so car will have 12 months MOT

Happy birthday Dave, welcome to the 50 something club!! Enjoy the day Andy

And possibly two more. Myself and Captain Pugwash AKA Andrew Dixon.

Hi Everyone, I am going up to the Westfield factory on the 9th Oct 2018 to pick up my FW kit. If any members local to the Portsmouth / Southampton area need anything picked up just let me know. Steve C.

Many Happy returns @Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Secretary 50 today! Many happy returns @Mark Redpath - WSCC Membership Secretary 49 today!

I was thinking of organising a karting event at Daytona Milton Keynes on a Saturday / Sunday in December. Format would 10 min qualifying, followed by a 30 min race. Daytona MK is a great track and reasonably central so maybe we can get a few people together? Price will be £65 that will need paying in advance. Happy to organise if enough people are interested? (this isn't a WSCC event, is in no way affiliated with WSCC, WSCC accept no liability etc etc)

I have a Westfield locking boot box system complete with locks in white. This was fitted but not used . £410 and 12 weeks from Westfield £280. Prefer collection if possible. Dave

Could anyone who won a trophy last year ( an annually awarded one) eg Turf trophy, old farts trophy, fashion award etc please try to return it at the Anglesey event so we can sort out engraving etc for this year's awards do Please hand them to me or John Williams Thanks

Thanks Martyn

Yeh I’m in brother

That was a great read, can't be very original after that many miles but still a great achievement in a seven. Did you watch the video? See the size of those hailstones? Must have done a lot of damage.

Have a great day gents.. unfortunately can't make it and one track I haven't done yet!

I'm now booked in for this one too - first day out on track with the new car! Very much looking forward to it. Cheers for the discount code @jabiqq!

If you get over your fear of aluminium, here's a picture with the windscreen and bench seats!

I think I might struggle to squeeze any rain on Thursday Ben. It looks positively arid! ..and I think you're confusing me with @RussH

Count yourself lucky @Chris King - Webmaster and Joint North East AO every time @Andrew goes on a trackday it rains so we should be ok

Barny, sounds like a great idea. @RussH, I'll try and get some of the Herts, Beds and Bucks area out. Matt

I haven't got round to weighing my car but did lose 17kg by stopping the booze.

I'm interested Russ, will put the word out and see if we could get a car load together from Essex

I'm in. @Matt (Fatbloke) - Herts Beds and Bucks AO @XTR2Turbo as we were discussing this the other day, shall we piggy back on this?

Happy birthday to the pair of you Don't forget age is only a number, but it does get bigger

That will increase your options considerably Terry. put that in the main Ad. Sure will help!!

Well with all this interest I've changed my mind (again) and gone and booked it as well. The weather looks like it should be a goodun. I'll put my battery on charge tonight and see you all there

Nice. And you certainly have some epic roads to play on over there! Enjoy

To be fair, it's mostly just the neons and subs though

Fack sake... heavy cars around essex... Regarding catering vans (previous comment)... none of the weight what they say. they are muuuuch heavier. at least none of the ones i had the oportunity to weight.

For comparison, here is the summary from our Essex Weigh Day this year: Car Car Weight Pre-lit, Crossflow, aeroscreen, half tank, oil coated 538.5 2.0 zetec, aeroscreen, half tank, no frills 563 Wide, Sigma, aeroscreen 574.5 1.6 mazda SDV, windscreen 581 Wide 2.0 zetec, windscreen, 2/3 tank, hood frame, JK seats 595.5 Wide, XE Redtop, windscreen, just over half tank 597.5 Wide 2.0 Zetec, aeroscreen, tunnel carpet, 3/4 tank fuel 601.5 Wide Zetec 2.0, Full cage, no screen, carpet, half tank 610.5 Wide 2.0 Zetec, Full Cage, Tonneau, Aeroscreen, half doors, 3/4 tank 612.5 Wide, 1800 Zetec, windscreen, heater, carpets, half tank 612.5 FW rear, 2.0 Zetec, Full cage, windscreen, heater, half tank, 2 fire ext 618 Mazda 1.6, windscreen, tonneau, full boot (!), doors, full tank 618 Wide, 2.0 Zetec, 1/4 tank, windscreen, Nox bottle 619 Wide, Crossflow, windscreen, spare wheel 623.5 2.1 pinto, flared arches, spare wheel, heater, carpet, windscreen 626.5 Wide FW, Zetec, windscreen, heater, half hood, side doors, full tank 640.5 Wide, Turbo Mazda, windscreen,half hood, wind deflectors 650.5

...or maybe not, it might be a good thing to discuss the matter here before. I'm looking for a prelit / early SE. What I would Really, Really want : Flared / Clamshell wings, windshield obviously. Pushrod engine (well, crossflow or period-related powertrain). Big analog clocks. Lots of. Twin carbs. Running. Old. What would be nice to have but might be pushing it too far. Green or any dark color would be nice. Minilite-looking or steel rims. 5 speed gearbox. Benchy flatty seats. Sidescreens and wet weather gear (but maybe sourcing / making should not be that hard). For a weird reason I crave the bulge shaped front turn signal mounting posts, on the nosecone, like on this picture. Diagonal belts (pushing it too far, I know). No holes for letting air filters through. Maybe the best (even if terribly wrong) words to describe what i'm looking for would be a stock, vintage Westfield. Like an old seven but with no alloy panelling. Even writing it seems wrong. Some of these things I can change with ease, some less so.

Can be repaired permanently and / or invisibly using epoxy resin . Use a suitable pigment paste to colour match if required , hese are available in the full RAL colour range from somewhere like CFS fiberglass CFS catalogue 4U

Interesting that I have a very similar spect to your old Duratec (bar the cage), but my Zetec is 50kg heavier - I don't have carpets either, but my nosecone, cycle wings and aero screen are all OE fibreglass - maybe 10kg to be saved with a screen and wings, but I don't fancy extending the mortgage for a carbon nose I jumped on one of the corner weight scales at proComp - 81.5kg fully clothed (with extra clothes too, 'cos it was a bit fresh yesterday, so I'm probably still on the right side of 80kg in the buff..) Matt was saying that it is extremely difficult to get any Westie below 500kg, with live axle narrow being the closest. He said that a wide IRS is always going to be in the mid 500s as a minimum. To be honest, now I'm over the intial disappointment of owning a lardy kit, I'm not that bothered. With 'only' 170bhp, it was never going to be setting laptimes to beat, but its plenty quick enough for everyday road use. In fact I'm rather enjoying wringing its neck, feeling like my face is being ripped off and then looking down to find I'm still only doing 60mph Matt was telling me that there are some Wilwood calipers that fit straight onto the Sierra uprights - if any pop up for sale, I'd probably have them, but for now, I'm just going to enjoy driving it and tinkering with it during the long winter evenings (for the first time in 30 years, I have a heater in the garage AND a reason to go in there)

That's a great story, he seem quite proud of his strengthened Morris Ital (not the old fashioned Marina) back axle. Wonderful adventures and way more committed than me....