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Picked up my westy yesterday and the heavens opened. Don’t think it could of rained any harder so the wife and I are up for breakfast and a run round the Peak District. Really looking forward to our first outing and some cake

How's this: bigger images/different file formats can be supplied on demand.

...........and finally my own car!

Think I might be up for this, but in my new toy, as that has got a roof! It is likely to be 10.30 or just after before i can get there though.

yep should be ok for me.. tin top for me

I've made a start this afternoon

Anyone got a cheap seat of any description we can use as a passenger seat in the silver s***ter please? @syman84 had his wicked way with the last one!

I have and he will answer but I know he is flat out.

Cheers guys I had the car mapped at NMS last weekend, but it's two hours each way, so was looking for something nearer. @Mark (smokey mow) Brands is just down the road, will give them a call. Thanks

Just email him I've been in contact this week

Got his email address if you need it Kev ?

I've not used them myself but I've read good things on other forums about Boss Racing near Brands Hatch. http://www.boss-racing.co.uk/services/

You forgot the sump below the wheel line

You rascal Tommo Looks like you got a good one. Be good to see it sometime soon

To be fair mate he was parked under a bridge when I saw him. Good luck I hope it makes it to you safe and sound.

I can't see where you are but I've used both Graham Hathaway Racing in Maldon and more recently AB Performance in Suffolk for corner weighting and Geo.

Hi Butler I'm in Dartford and can't think of a local company ..But our Essex group highly recommend Northampton Motorsport..

Bit of half inch gas pipe and some 1/8" plate? Worked well for me.

It wasn’t a recommendation, just what Barny’s got. I’ve thankfully never been in Barny’s ****ter with him on top. FWIW back in the day I had a TR Lane on mine, but no one mentions them anymore.

Sport 250 @AdgeC please check I've got the bar and screen height spot on! I can easliy adjust

My first FW rolls of the production line: I I now realise the boot box is too high on the ZK's so I need to recall them for a 'free of charge' upgrade.

is that a glanza in the corner?

Fantastic! Pay attention to the battery mounting as mine didn't appreciate heavy braking and ripped out of the ali sheet when it was like that. Looks like a well built car and an inspired choice of colour

@AdgeC I'll charge 2" more for the work Glad to help, our high torque friends!

Nice work Martin , I think we’re about there now just Jim and Laura to sort out next so that’s Geoffrey, Ali & Gail, Jude, Martin, Trina & Gary at the Château , Jim & Laura and Dave ( bike) are at another hotel so we’re all sorted

@Captain Colonial Files attached as requested, to echo Dave's comments great job getting this together Unfortunately there is nothing with respect to contact details - I only have the cutout that the original owner passed on with the car. A quick google says it may have evolved into this: http://www.kit-cars.com/ ? WF Price List Oct 98.pdf Kitcars Internation WF 1800 Review - Sept 98.pdf WF Sales Brochure 98 .pdf

Good idea @CraigHew I'll do that once the various requests have concluded in here! I've not forgotten about the FW version

Gary and Geoffrey thanks for the update. Your cancellation was the only hotel I couldn't get booked into. However as you are now 1/2 hr south of my booking I have re-booked a double room at Chateau Montlieu with you. I have held onto the other booking for the time being in case anyone else has difficulties.

Nice one cheers Ian.

FW or ZK? @Steve (sdh2903) ? No problem, glad to help!

You'll be welcome. A FW version will be available soon too.

Sorry, can't make this one as I will be working on the Westy. Sounds like a great event though, so I hope to be along to one of these later in the year.

So far it looks like we'll be there (tip-top though)

I've stuck it in the calendar. If I own a Westfield this weekend I may very well book a place if there are any left. The track is only 20mins from me. Even if I don't go on track I might pop along and say hi.

Cool - thank you. dave

Back home safe. Was raining quite light so went with the roof up and some side deflectors minus the doors. Took it nice and steady with a few blasts on some drier sections but then five minutes from home the heavens opened. Didn’t get wet till we pulled up on the drive

No, WSCC members weren’t set to add events to it, I’ve just been through and hopefully got all the normal member permutations, so club members should be able to add track days now.

How's this looking? Any thoughts on the white lines around the bonnet / nose cone?

Might see if I can make it over for a bacon buttie and a catch up!

If weather is dry I’ll be up, not sure I have the time for run round the peaks afterward though

Can't help with old brochures, but as an aside, it is great to see significant input from Kingswinford, not just on this thread, but I've noticed it on other threads as well. Thanks are I think due to Simon, as well as the Guys in Parts department.

No, your not being dumb. I think you might need @Mark Redpath - WSCC Membership Secretary to Help here; I’ve checked back office and you don’t have a membership number showing in the usual place - but I’ve got a little, vague memory at the back of my mind that says something like joint membership accounts might not automatically create them, or something, and some manual work is required.

I have thought for some time that the fuss about man-made climate change (as opposed to the natural phenomenon) was dreamed up to scare the masses into reducing use of oil. Why? Because, as you said Jeff, the sources are unstable and/or hostile regimes and stable western(ised) governments do not want to be beholden to these countries. Simply telling the people this would not result in any change in behaviour worth the name, but the new-age religion of anthropomorphic climate disaster has made a lot of people change their ways of life in the hoped-for direction. Unfortunately, as is usually the way with unintended consequences, the cost and other side effects are nearly as bad as the evil they're trying to avoid. A certain proportion of the populace have become truly evangelical and are becoming a right-royal pain in the A***.

Ah, the media. That's the case. At the time being. For what is socially considered as dangerous. Now. Socially because lawmakers are somewhat not anyhow knowledgeable in basic science. And that tackles only what fart comes out of the exhaust of the car during the time it is driven. Let's say that's at best considering the fresh snow on top of the iceberg. Car building involves emission. Have anyone ever considered where the material that is worn out of tires was going ? Mabe brake dust, too ? What about recycling the car (and a battery powered car is not significantly, at the time being, better or worse recycled / upcycled that their IC counterparts : a car nowadays is a messy tangle of very, very different materials, pretty hard to recycle. Unless it's burn, melt, and grab what's floating. (And wait until a lawmaker figures out the amount of fine particles THESE DAMN FLOWERS emit in spring. Pollen particle filters on trees anyone ?) I believe in electric cars, because they're, to my daily driver usage, better to drive. I don't have range anxiety, because I seldom drive more than a hundred mile in one go. (range anxiety is a funny thing : that's considering the longest drive as basic minimum required mandatory thing. A bit funny, because you're bound to buy a sofa during the year, or something sizeable, you'd buy a van. And I see a LOT of people going on vacation with that weird coffin sized box on the roof, because the car they've bought is not suitable for vacation and need additional luggage. No boot anxiety though ?) (Charging infrastructure is another kettle of fish, but you don't often design a networked system for full-full capacity, like everyone using it to the max. (See broadband providers). I believe charging will happen during the 98% of the cars life time that happen empty, standing still. That would at least work for me, in the case of car ownership. That would not work in the casse of a massive "tomorow everyone en e-wagons with same power infra", obviously. And there's the slight issue of people who don't enjoy a powered parking space. Like most of city dwellers. All in all people will only put in the battery what they have used (plus self discharge and convertion ratios). I am pretty convinced it's a credible way to go : i've witnessed significant amount of people ditching the expensive <insert expensive saloon of your choice> in favor of a model S (socially acceptable, better to drive, power is insane, hard to park and eats rubber like crazy until you quit playing with the silent pedal). If I were (that's a big if) in the market for a new family car I'll be sniffing the hyundai ionic or model 3 (but I'm more at the small rodent-scavenger end of the used market) (so I keep my diesel so old it's going to be able to vote soon, until it just dies, hopefully at the same moment it's deemed illegal-sooty-oil-burner-you-enemy-of-the-atmosphere, I don't believing that scraping 1.5 tons of functionnal product is good for the planet.)

Episode 23 is on the Tube. Coming thick and fast now. Met them at the Raceretro show. What a nice couple of blokes, very genuine.

Maybe it was when you opened the door and put your foot down when you stopped Chris.

Hard Breed them Essex Boys no need for heaters.....

Easy to say if your someone or a company not depending on free trade with Europe or your job isnt controlled and regulated by a European wide regulatory body which we are about to fall out of. My work license is about to become as worthless as the a4 sheet of paper it's typed on. This country wants to control and govern itself. Yet sadly a vast number of the people elected to do so are not capable of running a p*** up in a brewery.

Yes you did! It was on its way down to me in Winchester Still stuck at Tankersley. Not ideal in this weather!