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Well. I have the car. And havent been bothered more with extras this time. Happy days!!

SOLD Don't let the winter weather put you off! Having driven safely to and from the Classic Vehicle Restoration Show in the most adverse weather conditions, maybe it's time to grab a superb full factory kit Mega S2000. Considered by many as an exceptionally well crafted and detailed example. Genuine reason for extremely reluctant sale, but an excellent opportunity for someone to take on this sought after Westfield model, which is in excellent condition and built to the highest standards. First registered in November 2016. Current mileage 4622. FULL 12 MONTHS MOT to 31/10/20. £23,500 as stated. Bodywork Black gel coat with carbon fibre wrap detailing V8 bonnet with FW rear Carbon NV carbon exterior parts including cycle wings, rear wheel arch protectors, wing mirrors, indicator pods and roll bar covers Mick Made chassis rail protectors Mugen Honda carbon gear stick and knob Carbon fibre/wrap to scuttle, front wishbones, recessed wheel nut housings and rub strips for side-screens and hood straps Recessed Aero catches to bonnet and boot lid Recessed indicator repeaters on cycle wings Engine 46k mile donor Honda F20c AP1 engine and Honda six speed gearbox New Mazda LSD Westfield Carbon exhaust silencer, and polished stainless steel pipes (separate Cat pipe and optional link pipe included) Brakes, suspension and wheels Westfield wide track Protech shock upgrade Customised spring rates and damping to improve ride characteristics and handling Professional geometry set up Disk brakes all round with Westfield performance Hi Spec 4 pot front brakes with Mintex 1144 pads. Uprated Burton Ford front hubs fitted with good quality bearings. AD08 Yokohama 205/50 R15 tyres fitted 1100 miles ago to Team Dynamics ProRace 1.2. Rims: 7” inch front and 8” rear. Interior Fully upholstered interior with black carpet Black padded vinyl contoured dash upgrade with carbon inserts Westfield (Cobra) Sport Turbo seats on runners on lowered floor pans with Westfield logo embroidered in white Westfield clocks with black bezels Racetech QR wheel hub and SPA steering wheel. Heater TRS four point harnesses Wet weather equipment Factory side screens/doors, half hood and bag Double strap closures on side screens for improved weather/wind protection Extras Heated windscreen Fitted immobiliser Fitted 12v lighter/accessories socket G Techniq ceramic polish coating to bodywork, wheels and windscreen (easier to keep clean) Garaged and on C-tec battery charger/conditioner (not included in sale) Complete build file, photographic history and service booklet included. NB. Private plate will be replaced with a new ‘66 plate. New 12 months MOT (just passed, no advisories) to 31/10/20 12 months WSCC membership included (for new non-members only) £23,500 as stated (and what I paid for it 700 miles and 6 months ago). Comments by club members suggest it’s considered a fair price for a fantastic car. Offered to members (and Guests) to this forum at this price. It’s insured for more. It’s advertised elsewhere for more. No offers, genuine enquiries only please. Private sale. HPI clear. Test drive offered subject to weather and insurance conditions. Location: 45 minutes from M5 junction 27 (Barnstaple, North Devon). Delivery on uncovered car trailer to mainland UK available by separate negotiation. Please pm, email 474gareth.hd@gmail.com or call 07771 683133 for more information and details.

After the cold the previous day, we thought it would be a good plan to move further south to Greece for some sunshine. Of course, that lined up nicely with a thunderstorm where we were going! We booked a hostel in Thessaloniki for some shelter and set off early to try to get there ahead of the weather. At the border crossing, I got pulled over by the Bulgarian security. "nice car, but you've got a problem" he told me. He then went on to say that I hadn't paid the road tax, or vignette. I had, and I knew I had done it right, as it had been checked by the police when we got pulled over for a photo op the previous day (oops, forgot that from my last post!). He looked a bit bemused when I whipped out the receipt, and then tried to claim that I'd mistyped my registration, confusing a 0 with an O (I hadn't), before acting as though he was doing me a favour and letting me off this time. The clouds were looking a little threatening on the way down, but didn't quite look like they were going to break. Joe was getting a little nervous with my optimism about staying dry though, so about an hour out from the hostel we pulled over to put the hood up. The hostel was down a maze of one way streets and sure enough we had driven past the garage entrance before we realised it. We pulled over and I ran in to ask them to open the garage for us, and while I was doing that, the heavens opened. I had to do a loop of the block to get back to the garage, and in the streets there, that took 10 minutes, just about enough time for me to stay dry inside! The frustrating thing was that if we hadn't stopped to put the roof up, we would have made it in the dry! Once we were checked in, showered, and fed with some gyros, we cracked open a couple of beers and sat down to relax (and post a few updates on here). The hostel (Crossroads hostel) was one of my favourites so far. Only space for 14 people, ran by two best friends who just decided to set it up about 5 years ago. Hadn't been packed as full as possible for maximum profit, but just to a comfortable level, and had a really relaxed vibe. We spent a good bit of time chatting to two of the other guests, one Austrian and one Swiss. The Austrian was just in the final few days of his trip, having been to a load of the places planned in our next few weeks, so we got plenty of pointers, and the Swiss guy was from 10 minutes down the road from a few of our other potential hikes! Plenty of people have told me I'm crazy for driving the Westfield on a trip like this, and if I'm honest, I couldn't wholeheartedly disagree, but this Swiss guy, at 19 years old and fresh out of school, had cycled from Alps down to Greece on his mountain bike. That's commitment!

no idea why you went there... 😍

Due to open in April 2020, a new car museum is being built in Derbyshire, it is located approx a 15 minute drive South of where we meet for the Peak District runs in Matlock. It will include a display of 100 cars and there will be a 'Drive Dad's Car' driving experience along a mile long route. The exhibition will be called 'The Great British Car Journey - when Britain ruled the road' A decked seating area will overlook the river Derwent and there will be a cafe, gift shop and workshop on site, with parking provided for 65 cars. I will be proud to take my British Westfield to this place. Glen hopes there will be a Westfield included in the driving experience and he might actually get to drive one!!!

Due to change of circumstances I have reluctantly decided to sell my Westfield – I am spending a lot of my time abroad and in consequence am not getting a chance to use the car. 2016 / 16 plate – Westfield SEiW, with 2.0 litre Zetec using Omex throttle bodies, built using all new components supplied by Westfield as a full Factory FW Special Edition kit. The car has completed 4,400 miles since completion and passing the IVA in July 2016. The full kit was supplied by Westfield in October 2015 and built between then and April 2016. I recorded the full build and you can look read through this in the Tech Talk section. 100’s of photographs of all stages of the build are also available. Specification: Full kit supplied by Westfield with all new parts comprising of: FW Bodywork - Westfield Orange Gel Coat New crate 2 Ltr Zetec engine Omex 600 ECU 4-point harnesses 5 speed Ford MT75 gearbox Team Dynamics Pro Race anthracite colour wheels with Toyo 195/50/15 T1R’s 4 pot Westfield (Hi-Spec) High performance brake kit - 3rd generation Standard Westfield carpet set Heater and Screen In addition to the standard kit the following upgrades and optional extras were included: Wide track front wishbone kit Westfield Sports Turbo Seats with matching orange piping Carbon effect front cycle wings All panelling powder coated Contoured dash with cubby hole – with white faced instruments Long range fuel tank MSA Roll Bar made by Caged Laser Engineering, with high level brake light Carbon fibre roll bar covers Flush fitting Aerocatch locks on bonnet and boot Carbon effect rear diffuser Carbon effect rear arch protectors Underbody and cavities treated with Dynatrol Cigarette lighter power point Carbon fibre chassis foot rail protector Amber Valley ‘Custer’ air horn (139 decibel) Electrically adjustable mirrors Removable, Momo Model 27 (290mm diameter) steering wheel with the excellent Works Bell quick release boss Toad Scorpion immobiliser Westfield half hood ‘Soft bits for Sevens’ half doors with wind deflectors ‘Soft bits for Sevens’ hood bag to replace standard Westfield bag – securely fits to MSA roll bar Westfield side screens – not fitted Walker St Clare cockpit weather cover The car has also benefitted from a comprehensive suspension set up by Luke at Playskool for use in a touring configuration and the engine has been set up on rolling road by Evotune in Durham. The car is in immaculate condition and meticulously maintained. It has only ever been used in good weather, never been on a track and garaged between use. A lovely car in need of a good home! PRICE: £16,500

The first or second weekend of October is when Australia and New Zealand comes to a standstill to watch the V8 Supercars race the mighty Bathurst 1000 (km) on the fast and formidable Mount Panorama circuit - the two countries are like a ghost town as everyone is at home or anywhere there is a TV! Mount Panorama is 6.2 mile long 'mountain' circuit - from it's low point of the track to the top is a 175 metre elevation, at one point coming downhill a 1:6 radiant, and down Conrod Straight the four-door V8 sedans (saloons!) get up to 190mph, and that's after they put a kink in 3/4 down the straight in 1987 to lessen the accidents at the 90deg left at the bottom (Murrays). When there is no racing, it's a public road, and is the most policed road in Australia - the cops out to catch anyone who thinks they are the next Peter Brock! The big race is tomorrow (Sun) but qualifying and support races are Fri and Saturday, and already there's been a big off at Murrays in the Toyota 86 race. Watch below...

Ive booked it. 😁

I’m out the country now until 4th nov so will join you in Matlock on the 5th as mentioned in the other post. 🤞

Yeah cracking afternoon😎

Having one big hike under our belt, we decided to continue the tradition the next day with another big one around Seven Rilla Lakes. We had about a 3 and a half hour drive to get there, then a chair lift up to where the hike started. The chair lifts stop running at 4:30 and we figured on about a 4 hour hike, so getting there at lunch time seemed to work. We hadn't quite anticipated the pricing though. After paying for parking, we only had enough money for chairlifts up, so had to add an extra 2 hours to the hike back down to the cars! It was a little chilly at the start of the chair lift. 20 minutes later, we were surrounded by snow! Very different views to what you see if you Google the place but it was absolutely beautiful anyway. We hiked up to the summit but it was above the cloud line, so we didn't stay too long! By the time we got back to the chair lift, it was nearing 5 o'clock, so we would have missed the last lift down anyway which made us less annoyed about the extra few km back to the cars. We also came across more great views on the way down. We had planned to camp nearby, but realising how cold it was at this altitude, we thought it would be best to drive a little lower down before making camp. We found a spot down a dirt track away from a main road to set up. Chris's mx5 needed a little shove once or twice when it got stuck, but the westie made it without issue thanks to the realisation that I can sit on the tunnel and drive it with all 4 corners in view to navigate the tricky bits! It was made a little difficult by the fact that my clutch pedal had been acting up though. It had started "popping" when I was releasing it a couple of days before but was working fine and I just hadn't had time to diagnose it, but suddenly it has become quite hard to press more than half way. I assumed an old favourite garage yoga position with my legs over the roll bar and head in the foot well to find this: The nut at the back of the clevis had wound itself off. Sure enough, in not being quick enough to diagnose and fix the issue, I'd damaged the thread too, so couldn't just nip it up. Instead I had to take the pedal out of the way entirely, wind the other nut out until it bound at the end of the threads (not sure how or why, but it did), and then use this as a reaction to allow me to wind the other nut back out. After much swearing, the end result was a very high clutch pedal, but at least it was working again!

Cracking run out today, no rain, not that cold, and the sun came out when we got to Bala PonderosaPonderosaBlue sky's over Bala LakeThe lake was like a mill pond

Highlights are on Freeview channel 64 Freesports channel 10.30am to 12.30 next Sat 19 Oct 2019 and i've set the recorder. Many years ago on holiday in Oz i drove a couple of laps of Mount Panorama but only in a road car and the speed limit was 30mph IIRC. At least is was free as it's a public road. The 1 in 6 downhill gradient at The Dipper is great.

Got my Xtr2 road legal!

More support race crashes - this time the SuperUtes (340hp turbo diesels)...

Definitely falling behind on updates waay too far. I'll try to speed up, however this one needed gopro shots - so laptop and wifi rather than updates on the phone unfortunately. Whilst I've got data on my phone and could technically use a hotspot, my laptop has a power issue at the moment and only works while plugged into the wall. Hence I've been delaying until reaching another hostel. I need to open this post with some kudos to a certain @AdamR. The settings applied to the car on his advice were really great for this one! When we set off from the hostel, it was still sunny, but there were a few threatening clouds. These grew as we approached the mountains. We had planned to stop off somewhere before getting to the mountains to make a few sandwiches (and for me to take the lead - as great as the MX5 is, it's not able to go around a corner as quick as the Westie!), but didn't really find a suitable stop, so just carried on going. We were greeted with miles and miles of this: And this: We only hit a couple of bits of traffic during the morning run, and everything we did catch up with immediately pulled to the side to let us past. The locals obviously know what they've got and are watching their mirrors closely. At this point it was certainly the best driving road I'd ever been on, but it still had more to offer! After our lunch stop, the roads continued to twist and bend, and the views got more spectacular. At the top of a load of switchbacks over the valley, we pulled in to take a couple of photos. A couple that had just gotten married had a similar idea! Chris's poor MX5 looked disappointed that it wasn't shown any love though! Our mini photoshoot was cut short by the weather. The rain started tipping down quite heavily, so it was hoods up for the next stint, which unfortunately means no photos. We got stuck behind a string of cars anyway, which really took away from the excitement so we pulled over for a break. It seems that on the downhill stretch we caught all the ignorant drivers that we'd avoided on the uphill section, including one Jag driver who seemed determined to block us into our little break spot by parking straight across the only surface we could easily drive out over, but oh well. Once the rain reduced a little bit, I took my hood off again. I don't think I set my front cycle wings low enough at the rear, as when I'm driving with the hood up on a wet surface, the front tyres seem to flick up gravel, which bounces off the rear arches, off the inside of the hood, and all over the interior (and my hair), so hood down driving is definitely more fun! The rain was stopping and starting all the time, and especially with the intermittent tree cover, Mike's freewheel configuration had just about every setting used on it for the wipers at different points. On a twisty road like that, the more intuitive and easily accessed the controls the better, and looking at the gopro footage, it gave me so much freedom to tweak it to keep the windscreen clear! The gopro was mostly covered in water droplets and a good chunk of the remaining video is stuck behind an Audi driver (who was determined that all the horsepower in his car should mean he was faster than us) holding us up around every corner before shooting out of reach on the straight bits so there's not much of interest to post photos of! We stopped off for a coffee on the far side and then carried on to find a campsite. Unfortunately the campsite we were aiming for that was supposedly public land turned out to be a farmer's field. It was promptly suggested that we turn around. We obliged. It was getting dark, and rather than risking the same thing happening again, we decided to drive the extra hour and a half to Ruse in Bulgaria. After all the fun of the day, that was a pretty miserable drive due to a combination of the darkness, the rain, and some not so well surfaced roads, but we made it to our guest house, cleaned up and found a restaurant around the corner. It was only after we had each sunk half a pint and ordered some dinner (without knowing the exchange rate) that we realised it was a pretty fancy restaurant. Fortunately, the exchange rate was pretty good, and the meal, including a couple of pints equated to less than a tenner each! With Bulgaria added to the list, this took me to 13 countries in the Westfield so far, with plenty more to go!

This one doesn't end well..