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Westfield XI 2018 This Westfield XI is only for sale due to a complete change of direction and unforeseen change in circumstances. It is a new car which was IVA’d in NOV 2017 and then registered in Feb 2018. This is a special commemorative edition car 48 of 50. It has done 200 miles since the build. The body is the standard Westfield body kit, with Le Mans driver's head fairing, in Westfield racing green, with crimson carpets, dash and seats. The bodywork has been professionally machine polished. The dashboard is populated by a matched set of MG Midget instruments, all professionally rechromed, comprising fuel gauge, combined oil pressure/water temperature gauge, rev. counter, and speedometer fitted (and calibrated). The car has a factory optional tonneau cover supplied. All donor vehicle parts were fully reconditioned using MG specialist, the engine capacity was increased to 1330cc to give a better performance and converted to unleaded fuel. Twin SU carburettors, set-up by a period specialist (Ron Harper) to give excellent starting and running. Minilite wheels, Mountney period Red leather steering wheel, front anti roll bar, Tonneau cover. Front driver seat is on sliders. Asking price is £ 17,950 or near offers. Would also take a standard Westfield in part Exchange. For more details / pictures give me a call 07770 934673 or PM on here.

Very well put @MrPid. I've argued all along it was a vote based on spin and political willy waving of which our now PM was chief protagonist. It was a vote with no answers or clear choices (or their consequences). It's best summarised that when I ask my dad (who's a stout brexiteer) Why did you vote to leave? "I voted to leave as it's time for change." Ok fair enough. What's going to change and how? "Well I dont know!"

Digressing slightly - I think for me, this is the saddest and most resounding rehtoric from Brexit. I am utterly sick of hearing of the "working man", even now when I read it, I hear a northern accent. Its a pure example of how Brexit has been hijacked from a polictical/economics decision to being played out as a rich v poor, north v south, public school vs state school, etc etc. You name it, its been manipulated into something else turning the whole debacle into a class war, splitting the country, literally in half. At the end of the day unless you can afford to live, without working and without benefits, you're a working man. Some get paid more than others, but the majority of us, go out every day to work, and get paid at the end of the month. I dont think Britain has ever been as divided as it is now, we have always maintained some sort of Island mentality but to see this day in day out is awful. There has always been a north/south divide but we seemed to have stepped back in mentalities more than anything, which makes it appear bigger than ever. Brexit has been coming for ages, look how marketing firms use demographics to advertise and validate their products. You see most trades products are advertised by northerners, even plus net have jumped on the band wagon with their plucky lad because northeners are known to want value for money (notice I didn't accuse them of being tight! 😉 ). Advertisers use posh folks to validate things being the correct decisions. One even went to the length of having a northern husband and a posh wife, he made a decision based on value, and she came along (surprised) and validated it. My point being is that Brexit has painted a pictures of remainers being lefty snowflakes who are aloof and only care about money to leavers being knuckle dragging brutes who just want to start the crusades again and "take back control". Its just awful in my opinion, either way you look at it. None of us will ever have/had the full facts in order to make an informed decision so why put it to the vote in the first place. I always said the government had made their decision long ago but wanted a scapegoat ie - the British Public, because they didnt have the courage to just do it themselves. Whichever the outcome there is around 66m people in the UK and less than a third of that voted, one way or the other. But we are ALL talking about it!

Think we’ve all done this. That’s not me, by the way, I’m much better looking.

On the donor Sierra these joints have a washer plate fitted. Wonder if that's making a difference on cars that dont have them fitted?

Tour of the Cambrian Mountains 2019

If anyone can remember MattyCatty from Yorkshire with the white supercharged S2000, he had the same problem as @LukeW and he broke down on the A1. That incident caused us the check our car's bolts and guess what? they were loose too. We had only just bought the car and never considered checking them. They were tightened up, using loctite and upon checking at a later date they had come loose again. This time the bolts were really, super cleaned before adding loctite and tightening, so far they have stayed in position, but they do get checked. The marking with Tippex/paint is a good idea so we have just done that, good idea @IanK (Bagpuss)

As mentioned earlier, at this stage I'm just sourcing parts and doing a small amount of trial assembly to check the fit of parts and ease of assembly, although I have some photos and a few of the factory drawings for this car, being a prototype I have a lot less detail and info compared to the JW4's that I'd built before. One problem I needed to resolve was the uprights both front and rear. During its development the car ran with two different types of front uprights. Initially Costin at the request of Johnny Walker design the car to use the JW4 magnesium uprights and front drum brakes, which were paired with 10" front wheels. Frank Costin had commented that these weren't perfect but initially worked ok, later on in the development the car was passed to Tony Hilder of Piper Cars to try and tame the handling and he adopted 13" front wheels in lieu of the 10's fitted by Costin and also fitted front disc brakes. When the car suffered its accident at Lydden in 1971 the Hilder front upright was broken beyond repair. Unbelievably I still have that damage upright amongst the boxes of parts. Not being able to source an identical replacement I was left with the option of either reverting back to the JW4 upright with drum brakes or sourcing a suitable alternative. Frank Costin in his design for the chassis had considered several different race series including F4, F3, F5000 and Formula Ford and designed the chassis to be able to accept engines for each of these and the suspension parts as series regulations dictated. For Formula Ford the Alford Alder or Triumph upright as its better known was used so this seemed a sensible option as parts are easily available, disc brakes could be fitted and it would fit with 13" wheels. Once I'd settled on the front suspension the next search would be for suitable wheels. The downside of the using the triumph upright is that the hubs have a PCD or 3-3/4" compared to the Hillman Imp hubs on the rear which are 4" PCD so I'd have to run a miss match front to rear. All the photos and articles I have of the car are are in it's earlier years where it ran JA Pearce Magna wheels so the hunt was on for yet another set. Well i didn't have to wait too long until just what I needed appeared on eBay from the same seller who I'd bought the uprights from a month or two before.

You're doing it wrong, you've got the rear support up, now I can't remember exactly where it needs to be (I think vertical against the rollbar), but you pop the hood in place starting at the front and once all the poppers are in, the rear support is then the last thing you slide into place.

I’ve attached the print out

Looks nice Nick. Good luck with the sale.

Having seen this in the flesh - it's a corker! GLWS Nick - hope you get a Westy in PX, then you can come out and play a bit more!

Hopefully he will have time to go for a ride out.

I'm sure he would. Let me know when you next head that way, I'll give you the address and I'll let him know. He'd love to see the car.

Glad you all enjoyed the day. Shame the weather wasn't better.. however like you say it's what you make of it. I must say, i've tried to drift, Im awful. It was much harder than I anticipated. Thank you to everyone who attended the day.

Hello ,Mark thanks for sharing,good to see the pictures.........at least you've got a pattern of the inlet manifold..........and some interesting relics,to go with the car.....well done.FW.

Mark you are mad 😀 Really looking forward to this rebuild. I presume this car is slightly larger than the JW4.

Guess what...?

It is a difficult path we are on and no offence meant to Andrew or belief he is one who is extremist in his views on humour. People who now go on courses or who are at school are taught that much of what was humour can still be funny but can be seen as offensive at the same time. Take this case, 100 people could read it and find it funny, as truly there are some strange things currently happening in Ireland and NI that we find out of our understanding based in history, however if 1 person finds it in anyway offensive or stereotypical, then it is considered wrong. People have the right to be offended and now many organisations are falling over themselves to never cause offence to anyone. Telling someone to get over it, or man up is just not acceptable and unfortunately some out there sat in their room seem to search for something to be offended by so that some of them get more likes than others. An example of this sort of thing I witnessed in Barbados at a plantation house. Here the black female tour guide was actually telling about the number of Irish who were sent out to the plantations and died as a result of disease etc. It was the Portuguese who then saw a business opportunity and started supplying slaves from Africa, who being more used to heat survived much better and some did well as a result. The tour guide went on to say it was an awful period of time but she was thankful as now barbados gave them a great way of life much better than she imagined she would have had in Africa. Que American woman trying to tell her she was wrong and how she should feel about the suffering of her people, the woman was white and probably lived in an affluent area who had no idea of what this woman had but she felt offended enough to make a point about it and basically made herself look stupid. The tour guide stood her ground admirably I thought. We have the capacity for so much greatness and yet the capacity to allow others to reduce normality to be abnormality easily apologising endlessly for. In this case, the Irish have a right to look back on history and the British did some horrible things to them. like we did to many people who disagreed with us, but with much of the rest of the world we have moved on with Ireland that wound is kept open even now by those who want a united Ireland again. I don't know the answer, look back at jokes we heard in the 70's and laughed at but now they do seem less funny, now there are groups dissecting jokes looking for hidden meanings. Black humour has always been a British trait, it was a relief mechanism, but there was no harm intended now who would dare in certain circles to make a joke, Many of our great comedians are fearful of this new wave of "woke" is the current term. stifling them but when I see Ben Elton in October I will not be looking for a meaning I will look for a laugh and many others hopefully will still do that.

Driving to Sunk Island.

The gearbox had faired slightly better, and despite looking like it had spent some time sat outside or in a damp barn, the damage initially appeared limited to an inspection cover which had rusted in a hole but the inside still had a good layer of oil protecting everything and gear selection felt smooth. As I intend to build this car to be raced, the gearbox was duly despatched for a thorough inspection and rebuild to ensure all was working and in good order. As I worked to finish JW4 which I'm pleased to say is now complete and soon to be on its way to join the home of two of its sister cars in Belgium I only had time for a few small jobs on the Costin Walker, which mainly involved sourcing a few much need parts for the rebuild and for now that almost brings us up to date. Realising that the engine was not in a salvageable state I made the decision to strip it for all the parts that were unique to its install in the Costin chassis and then to seek out a replacement. The Costin runs the engine in a near vertical orientation at an angle of approximately 20degrees whereas in the Imp its laid near to flat, this means that all the inlet manifold, exhaust and also the cooling set-up are unique and needed to be swapped over. An adaptor flange is also mounted between the engine and gearbox to accommodate the different orientation of the engine but also because the box is run inverted in the Costin.

For goodness sake lets lighten up , as someone who is half Irish on my mothers side (from County Donegal ) which is indeed in the South (but its also in the North ) I have always loved something we British ( note the word British , not English or Irish or Scots or Welsh ) call " Banter " ( Oxford dictionary "Banter" the playful and friendly exchange of teasing remarks.) we are in danger of losing something unique to our race , its called " THE BRITISH SENSE OF HUMOUR " The best comedians in the world were, and still are, Liverpudlians , aka "Scousers " and Mancunians " Mancs" they are not alone in having a sense of humour which has helped to bring them through tragedy with an ability to laugh at the world and themselves when the going gets tough . I consider myself fortunate to live approximately halfway between the two tribes and can through my Irish ancestry understand and enjoy all forms of "banter"

Likewise, good to see the gang again! Having the road to ourselves going through the Gorge allowed the full symphony of the cars to be heard in full! And then there was the food at Tuckers Fish and Chip shop - massive portions and very tasty! A big shout out to Patrick @Westfield Parts Dept for driving down from Dudley to meet us! Great to have time to discuss all things cars in general and Westfields in detail. You Sir, are a Gent and very passionate about your job and the cars - something that will only benefit all of us in due course. I've already started planning the next jaunt - Wye Valley anyone?

Great to see everyone last night. Wow, I'd forgotten how spectacular Cheddar Gorge is! What a place! A Thursday evening is a good time to go too as it was nice and quiet. Excellent Fish and Chips (although one of us just had a Cappuccino!).😊 The weather stayed dry despite some black clouds. My car loved the cool air and Google Maps managed to direct me down some excellent roads on the journey there!

I have a nagging suspicion that what Corbyn says from outside No.10, is diametrically opposite to what he (and his cronies) would do once inside No.10. Cynic? Moi? Mais oui!

To be fair I’m sure comparing prostitutes with MP’s is an insult to prostitutes

Yep - exactly the same for me Dave - could do the donuts (eventually) but not go around anything anywhere near where I meant to be going! (well except when wiping out a bunch of Cones anyway)

A great fun day, regardless of the weather. Was thrilled to actually manage, (sad I know), to manage a series of proper, tight spinning donuts round a fixed point. (Never really got it without drifting sideways last time I did one of these days.) Even managed to do it with hands off the wheel. Sadly however, i’ll Be beggered if I can do it round the actual cone(s) I’m supposed to be going round I think I need another drift day/lot more practice to get my turn in point right, so I can donut round the damn cones next time, instead of just picking a spot of random tarmac!! 🤣🤪😱 A huge thanks to all the guys that worked so hard in appalling conditions to make it possible, I can’t say I really noticed the rain so much when in the car, but they had to stand out there working in it. Now, where’s the nearest car park.... I need to practice.

What we were supposed to be doing.....

Yes folks today was challenging.

@Chris King - Webmaster and Joint North East AO p shows off his powerboating skills today at 3 Sisters.

Well it was a cracking day out (now that i’m Warm and dry again). I still can’t drift but had a lot of fun. My highlight was @Chris King - Webmaster and Joint North East AO and his finale doughnut wiping out all of the cones. I’m also hoping @Simon Westwood - Westfield Sportscars Ltd releases the video of him nearly getting run over. Possibly not the best advertising but an interesting moment. many thanks again to all that made it work. especially Patrick @Westfield Parts Dept