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Cake at 10100 feet with the Matterhorn as a back drop. Just for you you @Julie Hall - AO Representative, Peak District AO Well worth the £190 return fenicular train tickets 😂😂

Free time today... Here are a few pix from my solo jaunt. Unfortunately someone liberated my sat nav...

We are on top of the world.

Taken the car to work so I could do a oil change and check over, I think the ramp was a little too big! But I was within the 18000kg weight limit safety first.

I'm nearly absolutely speechless after today and those that now me and Gail that's no small thing. Just the greatest driving day ever with the greatest from people from the greatest club in the world X

Yesterday was so awesome I fell asleep early. The hairpin bends gave such an adrenalin rush and I found I went miles and miles with the biggest grin. My phone died so not many photos... Just one with a heart in the sky... Could have been Brian?

Weather was holding and with rain forecast for the next week and a half decided to get myself out. Spean Bridge to Banavie back road to avoid the World Mountain biking and turn right on the road to Mallaig. After Glenfinnan take the turning off to Lochalaine all the way to Strontian and back around by the Corran ferry through Fort William and home. Some great views but as ever when the road is great you never stop so piccys not as good as they should be!!

Day 9 saw 140 miles plus 2 trains and we did another 2 passes , we also took the cable car and chair lift to the top of the letsch glacier at 7311 feet Stunning scenery that words just can’t describe, sunburnt and happy

A few of us Essex & Kent boys went to MK cars brekky meet near Whitham Essex. All 7 type were welcome, a Catering van driver actually said Hello to me but that was as much conversation he could muster.

Just wonderful scenery!

Aintree trackday with Liverpool Motor club last week. First time on track and car did not miss a beat

Hulme end cafe. Bacon and a sausage sandwichs... then cake and coffee. Oh this is after the event😂

Grandkids first port of call when they are round now..... Love it, but not sure their mother is so keen...... Mart.

I am really looking forward to the meet, took the demonstrator out for a test drive. Happy with the car will be bringing it on Sunday.

Day 8 of our great adventure 220 miles and a train ride. In glorious sunshine, we cracked off and did 5 brilliant passes we started off climbing and descending the Stuben pass circling around we climbed up above the snow line on the San Bernardino pass stopping at restoranti ospizio taking all the back roads we dropped way down into the valley rounding around airolo we climbed the passo del chiara and passo del lucomagno then finally over the oberalp pass to the train at realp and onto our hotel at Obergesteln Words really can’t describe the beauty that we saw today or the way the Westies were received by all the locals wherever we have been and today was Switzerland Italy Switzerland Italy Switzerland..... brilliant

Just got my Westfield SEI 2.0 out of winter storage and looking forward to getting out in it this weekend. Hoping to meet up with other members in Northants on 10 June (weather permitting).

Hello All, The June meet is coming up and is scheduled for Sunday 2nd. Patrick from the Westfield parts department is hoping to join us at the meet potentially in a westfield demonstrator. though the weather looks a bit iffy at the moment it's looking promising for the weekend, lets hope it stays nice for the whole weekend and we can have a descent turn out. Hope to see you on Sunday. Thanks Rhett Location Sunday June 2nd, 7pm at the Dudley Arms, Himley. DY3 4LB.

Firstly, a special thank you to @syman84 for inviting us to Michelle's 40th birthday last night, it was a great party and the live band were fantastic. The last time we met Michelle's dad we were at The Strines, it was freezing and he was in a turquoise Robin Hood, about 4 years ago, so it was nice to catch up with him too. I only wanted to go 5 miles for some breakfast, how difficult can it be? read on. We met at Ashbourne for a quick gather together before heading North to Tissington (or not as the case may be). We had a spare moment so we did the panorama dance red cars ruled today, Chris and Mo arrived Martyn and Sue arrived as well as Andrew, Trevor and Kirsty, Andy and Ann, Matt, Richard, Stephen, Andy and Sue, John and Jacky we nicely set off on our short and unremarkable trip through Ashbourne I indicated right to turn into Tissington, but no, no, no, the road was closed due to the well dressing being on. Parking was in an adjacent field - in a Westfield? I don't think so, plus imagine the crowds, no, no. We continued, which was actually the route I had planned for later, so Glen and I racked our brains for somewhere suitable to take 10 cars, we carried on the route and STOP STOP STOP we met this fine fellow An irate farm contractor, who met 2 of his work mates coming in the opposite direction in equally large vehicles. The road sign states 'unsuitable for long or wide vehicles' he had no brake/reverse lights, no tread on his tyres and the number plate is half hidden, and then he had the audacity to get out of his vehicle and tell us to back up, but only after he had aggressively reversed and braked hard towards me. I had nowhere to go obviously and had to sit there and gulp. Long one short, Glen got out and told him what an unpleasant man he is, I had kittens and we all turned around and went on a different road. Phew. We decided to divert to Wetton but unknown to me (I had just given birth to kittens! cut me some slack) Richard had started to overheat and Trevor stayed with him. Richard appeared later and Trevor and Kirsty ended up at Hulme End ????? Wetton After being suitably refreshed and back on track we set off around the lanes of Dove Dale To arrive at Willersley Castle, and what a beautiful setting to take our beautiful cars. The view over the river Derwent from the Castle After lunch we risked a drive through Matlock Bath and it paid off because the traffic was flowing well and the road was lined with motorbikes and tourists, pose time! With the warm weather we decided an ice cream farm was required and went to Matlock Meadows, engage panorama mode again the bonnets came off and the ice cream was consumed, the conversion flowed making a lovely end to a rather challenging start Richard 2 cakes, and he even bothered to pay for them this time Mazda, Zetec, V8 and Honda take your pic Thank you to everyone for coming along today, hopefully you have enjoyed it as much as us, you are fun lot and make us laugh so much xxxx

If in doubt, declare! You’d be surprised how little financial difference it makes to premiums. Throttle bodies is certainly one I’d notify, change of Tyre type, not so much, what is normal, after all? Steering wheel, if it was expensive and especially if on a quick release, then yes, I probably would.

Thanks for another great day

Fantastic day today. Thanks all especially @Julie Hall - AO Representative, Peak District AOfor organising us. Thought I’d put up some photos. The Tissington ones are to show everyone what we missed!

When I took my grandson out for the first time he was only 7. On the way he asked how fast we was going and I jokingly said 100mph when we was at 40mph. When we returned home his mother asked if grandad went fast, “oh yes” he said “grandad went to a 100mph” 😂 You should have seen her face.

Jude, what a lovely thought. It made me cry! I'm sure Brian is looking down with loving approval at the great adventures you're having in the car. Enjoy!

I will be getting next year's tick in the box today

@Barnsley John don't forget your passport There is a brew at M&S as Stephen said but the plan also is to drive for only 10 minutes to get coffee/breakfast before we go on our run around Thank you for replying @stephenh we were out last night and away from the forum

I'm really loving all the pics and write ups. Thank you all.

There are parts of the manual suggesting that a VIN number is not required on a Q Plate car... Introduction b. Vehicles having a Q plate registration when presented for MOT are to be treated as follows:  for emission purposes only, they are to be considered as first used before 1 August 1975  for all other testing purposes they are to be considered as being first used on 1 January 1971 Section 0 - Identification of the vehicle A Vehicle Identification Number (VIN or chassis number) is required on:  kit cars and amateur built vehicles first used on or after 1 September 2001  all other vehicles first used on or after 1 August 1980. It lacks clarity because a post 2001 Q plated kit car could be in scope or out of scope of the 'required on' section. Certainly you could argue pre-2001 Q plates don't require a VIN Jim

Hi all I'm looking at driving up from Cornwall and driving the NC 500 . I'm planning to drive up to the lake District and stay overnight to break the journey to Inverness and back into to shorter drives. Has anyone drove the NC 500? If so any tips , advice, places to visit and stay , etc would be gratefully received I'm planning on doing this in early August. Thanks in advance

@Geoffrey (Buttercup) - North Yorkshire AOwow there's some lovely video you've done there , thanks

Would have been great to have you with us hope your feeling better

I've just booked so see you there. I've ordered sunshine as well.😊

It's starting to look like a race car winter tinkering seems to have taken a long time this year.

Looks like you guys are having a great time I knew you would all like Switzerland although looks a tad colder than when we went!

Thanks for posting the photos and the comments. All good reading, keep them coming. Looks like you're having a great time.

The last time I went to a cinema was to see Jaws which I thought was pretty good 1st time around , previous to that was The Excorsist another shocker ! Some Fav's watched on the silver screen All Clint Eastwood stuff Dirty Harry movies and the Spaghetti Westerns Loneliness of a long distance runner https://www.google.com/search?q=Loneliness+of+a+long+distance+runner&rlz=1C1ASRM_enGB703GB703&oq=Loneliness+of+a+long+distance+runner&aqs=chrome..69i57&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 Dr Strangelove , Peter Sellers at his best, with a great storyline Dark Star ( gotta be a cult classic ) https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/17618/looking-back-at-john-carpenter’s-dark-star Loneliness of a long distance runner https://www.google.com/search?q=Loneliness+of+a+long+distance+runner&rlz=1C1ASRM_enGB703GB703&oq=Loneliness+of+a+long+distance+runner&aqs=chrome..69i57&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 Morgan (a suitable case for treatment ) tom courtneys best

The Album also depends upon your age as music has so many memories attached to it as well. For me the Album I probably play the most is Goodbye Yellow Brick Road by Elton John from the time I met my wife and played on a cheap in car cassette player always been a favorite. The other is Paranoid by Black Sabbath. As Dave said albums do come in and out but these two are constants.