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Today we went over to Ballater Victoria week car show, a couple of apologies , but left at just after 7am to meet David at Tomintoul, then over the lecht to Ballater where Alastair and his wife had a gazebo up and a wonderful spread laid on for us Cars in place and a quick clean up we sat and chatted about all things westy related. Halfway through the morning the rain started and at 1 pm we had the cavalcade through the town which had the roads lined with spectators after which we headed back over the lecht and a cuppa at Tomintoul before heading home , a short day with around 90 miles covered and excellent company

Well @Julie Hall - Peak District AO after looking at your great day out yesterday we had to go it alone today in the hunt for cake, mission successful 😋 glad you all had a fab day hopefully catch up next time Andy & Becky

You've gotta luv Guy Martin.

Sunshine!!

Don’t want repeat what has been said by the others so I will just say it was brilliant. Thanks for all the effort sorting out the route and for herding us all.

A great run out as always! Given my recent tinkering with rad, dash, EWP, throttle cable and gear selector, it was good to confirm correct operation of all items! Thanks @Julie Hall - Peak District AO for the planning that goes into these great runs! I 'think' this pic has all 11 Westfields in! Glad @Stuart got home dry! I did by about 20 mins. I susect others may have not!

No to keen on them new Audi calipers

Tintop holiday mate - so wouldn’t be much fun for you chasing a 1.6 diesel with the wife and dog in 🤣

Quick run out to Mallaig and back yesterday after work. Back road past the Caledonian canal and then onto the main route. Morar beach as busy as I have seen it. All photos taken on the move. What weather though and roads not so busy with tourists although a single Westy can usually get past most.

Thanks - I have been all over the seats and no marks anywhere. The kit was purchased from the factory many moons ago (2002-3) but only finished around a year ago before IVA and eventual sale. Many many pages of invoices - so balance of doubt and logic says they are factory - but of course in 17 years a lot has changed. The few hundred miles covered is probably what is causing confusion. I can sure vouch for the narrow fitting. One either needed to be a jockey or a small child. It almost gave me a complex. So any jockeys or small children without a complex who want some 17 year old seats - please form an orderly queue 😀 Really pleased with my fibreglass replacement - 6 foot 5 and with a 36 inch leg - proves even us bigger chaps can get comfy in a wide body.

@aeg that looks like 2 pieces of cake to me???? artic roll and choccy orange cake, so well done for keeping up the Peak District tradition if it helps it did rain in the Peak District today, at 12.30, I ran out of the cafe and spent 5 seconds putting the roof up on the MX5, then 2 minutes later the sun came back out see you both next time, take care xxxxxx

Yes for the Ullapool run. I will be there, no parties the night before!! Going to be stopping off on the way back at the Black Isle for the night. Don’t know where to meet up. Plenty of time though.

Sorry I couldn’t make this morning. Party the night before and there was no way I should have been driving so early!! My self restraint failed in a big way.

Id Still rather have the volvo.... .... cant think of any other time in my life I've ever said that before.

Good grief, how quickly did Andy wolf his piece down! 😀

Thank you for the above info much appreciated mainly looking spares for my race car cheers Richard in Black

Thanks for a great day nice to do a few miles in the car surrounded by good company

Huge thanks to @Julie Hall - Peak District AO for another well organised run out in the Peaks and to everyone else who made it so enjoyable. 👍

Oh what lovely comments guys, thank you, we have enjoyed every minute of today all because of you xxxxx We met at Matlock and there were Dave Eastwood, Ian Kinder, Andrew, Stuart, Trevor, Steve, Chris, Rob, Luke and arriving lastly was Bill. Bill was nearly as late as us, since I got in the car to a flat battery this morning. My headlight bracket had broken in the week and so Glen had fixed it and had used the lights a lot to check the alignment of the beam, draining the battery in the process to 7V. Good job we have one of these handy little clicky things. Matlock Matlock Tyre kicking in Matlock Off onto the country lanes through the villages waiting for a bus? No, just some Westfields until we arrived at The Queen Anne in Great Hucklow where we promptly compared cow poo. Dave won! At The Queen Anne where we would have sat outside if the wasps weren't so friendly PaulVX was waiting for us in his BMW 240i Ian and Trevor worry me sometimes as they seem to be very close to each other, don't mention rear wings to Ian though will you We all enjoyed our lunch in the pub and few people had to leave for family duties.Trevor had an idea and the troops were gathered let's have a group photo yes, here he is, trevtrouble Next is the most hilarious bit, we all got in our cars ready to go for cake, I had a last look around before setting off, to find Ian's car was empty. Ready? you will laugh at this, he had left his steering wheel in the pub and had sat in the car and done what? God only knows. He coming running out of the pub with his steering wheel shoved up his t-shirt, but we won't mention it will we? Speaking of steering wheels, I jumped in my car this morning and set off, late as previously mentioned, and drove down the road with a wonky steering wheel. The current husband had been feeding his cleaning OCD and had put the steering wheel back onto the boss in the wrong position. This is it with the wheels straight. With all wheels in place we took the lovely route to an outdoors cafe, The Smithy in Monyash and had ice cream. There was the usual large gathering of motorbikers, cyclists and walkers so it was a case of park where you can. We all dispersed in different directions from there. Stuart's satnav had said it was 2 hours 40 minutes for his journey home, so I think that is a record, well done Stuart and it is comforting to read that you had a good journey back. Nobody is local so you all deserve a pat on the back, not a cow pat though! Thanks for coming, being great company and good drivers, hope to see you all next time xxxxx

Fantastic day, horse/cow poo now thoroughly washed off car! All shinny again ready for next time. Great day, great friends, glorious V8 sound track in front, heavenly Honda’s behind! Fantastic. Great to see @Stuart and @Weekend Warrior coming up/over to join us as well as the regulars.

Yeah top day @Julie Hall - Peak District AO and the wscc owners for coming out to play! 👍🏼

A great day out, lovely scenery and great roads ,Food ,ice cream and company all excellent . It was my first time up here and I loved it ,I can see why so many people join these run outs . In the words of Arnie I’ll be back. 👍 Thanks @Julie Hall - Peak District AO For being a great host and @Trevturtle for showing me the way back .

Second that - and thanks for welcoming the ex-pat. Great to meet you all and will definitely be up for doing it again if you'll have me. Perhaps not every week with a 2+ hour drive at each end. I actually made great time on the way back without too much motorway. Home at 1635 which was perfect 'cos at 1645 it started to pee down 😊

Another brilliant day Thank you. Drive down wiggly roads with great views, eat good food with good people. @Julie Hall - Peak District AO thanks again for organising, it makes all our drives much easier.