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Well - I've only gone and done it! The Westy is still for sale but I've now bought a mk1 MX-5 which has had a 3 litre Jag V6 installed courtesy of Rocketeer. It went in at the end of March and I got it home on Thursday - it's just amazing and under such difficult circumstances Rocketeer did an amazing job. The standard of design and workmanship is truly wonderful. Rocketeer's work is carried out in Hungerford by Bassett Down Balancing. I went down there with my trailer on the back of the VW, picked up the car and drove it to my brother who lives about 10 miles away. The drive there and then back to Hungerford on Thursday was truly memorable and will live with me for ever. There is a great winding road of about 5 miles down into Hungerford, the roof was down and the exhausts (courtesy of Cobalt) were just howling... Happy days!!

We moved house a couple of years ago into a big place and on my list was a dream workshop to spend retirement when it comes. Of course now Im working more than ever. Its my happy place

Welcome to what really is one of the friendliest clubs out there! Geoffery was just having a laugh - it’s a very common thing on here for us to post photos of our pride and joy and when someone is looking for a new car “it didn’t happen unless we see a photo” will often be posted! The member map might not work as you are a “free trial member” with limited privileges. We offer trial membership to allow you around a month to look around and post questions to see if this place is what you had expected. As a free trial member you can’t post wanted ads or for sale ads and your image uploads are somewhat paltry I’m afraid. If you decide to join us properly you will not only benefit from reduced insurance, large image storage and the aforementioned extra advertising privileges, but also a huge wealth of knowledge and an abundance of free help from the 1000’s of active members on here. 👍

OK, OK, I do know the rules. Car as bought Car back home Stupid exhausts Not off the trailer yet, because on Friday I had cataract surgery on my right eye. Not back to normal yet but someone has turned up the colours and brightness in my right eye x10. Been a busy week!

I bought this at the start of the lockdown, sight unseen and obviously undriven. In fact, I’m still yet to see or drive it! But have joined the club this morning and hope to get the car next week. Looking forward to joining the Westfield fun!

I’m sure Geoff ( Buttercup) would not intentionally offend anyone.

Hi Hayley, sorry to hear of your loss. It would truly make my day if one of my 2 daughters also carried on my passion for anything mechanical..... One has claimed the Westfield and the other has claimed my Land Rover Defender (so they believe??) when they are old enough to drive.

First run of the year.

Thanks to the chairman and AO and everyone and I'm sorry if I was unfair to Geoff but I didn't expect that response on my first post. Just misjudged the comment and I'm sorry. I appreciate all the info and will be joining the club as soon as I collect the car.

Oh, to have a driveway like this...

@Gary Taylor - Scotland AO Great minds think alike - I just signed on to say the same thing! Hopefully that will encourage some more to join in.

Like this?

We were all sad about your father’s departure, but what a wonderful way to keep his memory and legacy alive. May you find many happy roads and adventures with the spirit of Don beside you.

Welcome Hayley , it’s really moving when there’s a strong family connection like that, enjoy and I’m sure dad will be there with you

...and the problem with this example is several fold - one, where is the BBC report that uses that photo?: two, does it use that description, ie. peaceful protesters vs aggressive police or not?: and three, at what stage of the protest was this photo taken? Was it when police attacked protesters or vice versa? Which side started it, if either? Pictures may well be worth a thousand words, but if you can’t trust the pictures, you can’t trust the words, either. It’s a snapshot of an instant. Newspapers in this country are so different in general from those in the States. Most of the papers in the States (apart from rags like the NY Post or National Enquirer) tend to work hard to stick to the facts and as a result are so dull they’d cure insomnia. Papers in this country are generally slightly or appallingly biased one way or the other and pander towards people’s political persuasions, frequently at the expense of truth, just to get circulation numbers up. The problems occur when people cease questioning whether or not what they read, see and hear is true. Newspapers always have an agenda, and that agenda is profit at all costs, including truth and never admitting when they’re wrong. If you really want to see the lengths and depths to which they’ll stoop and how hypocritical they are, pick up a copy of Private Eye and go to the Street of Shame section. You’ll be horrified. I have no problem with people buying whatever paper they like. The problem I have is when they believe it unconditionally and it clouds their judgement. I have a couple of good friends who buy a particular squalid tabloid on a daily basis. They’re the type who complain about companies or famous people not paying their taxes, yet are happy to give their money to a biased, bigoted newspaper owned by a non-dom tax exile and can’t see the irony. When I go to their home, they scuttle and scurry and hide the newspaper away so I can’t see it, as if it were Readers Wives (which is probably more truthful). One time they told me they only bought it for the crossword. I replied that it was a coincidence because when I was very young, free, single, horny and stupid, I only went to strip clubs for the music. My point is this - it’s perfectly okay to be outraged about something bad as long as it’s true. Don’t be outraged because some media organisation who shares your beliefs simply to get your cash tells you to be outraged. If the truth means that much to you, it’s your duty to question the sources used, no matter how much you trust them, and get the whole truth. Don’t give your money to organisations to reinforce your viewpoint. To quote Yes, Prime Minster: Hacker: Don't tell me about the press. I know exactly who reads the papers. The Daily Mirror is read by people who think they run the country; The Guardian is read by people who think they ought to run the country; The Times is read by the people who actually do run the country; the Daily Mail is read by the wives of the people who run the country; the Financial Times is read by people who own the country; the Morning Star is read by people who think the country ought to be run by another country, and the Daily Telegraph is read by people who think it is. Sir Humphrey: Prime Minister, what about the people who read The Sun? Bernard: Sun readers don't care who runs the country, as long as she's got big tits.

More power to your elbow Hayley! I doubt whether my daughter would emulate you - my son would though, if only he was in UK instead of Oz! Commiserations to you and your family on the loss of your Dad. 😕

It's the end of this thread.. I'm thinking about going back a page or two and deleting my tip! 😉

Using my daughter's my little pony to help remove my valve shims. 😁. Only magnet I could find.

Agreed 100%, my personal apologies if anyone was.

I'm defo in the 'mine's a tip too' club - though I know where most of the stuff is most of the time. Wish I had painted the walls white when we moved in, too much s**t to move now! It's not all mine though, the left side is commandeered by the missus' car, because (she) "don't do windscreen scraping" - I don't argue because I like being fed. My property back in NZ was a perfect man-land - the 'house' was a self-build barn with three car garage plus workshop downstairs, and a studio flat upstairs, all on 2.7 acres high up on a range that on a clear day you could see two snow-capped volcanoes 150 miles away. If you've wondered where my profile name comes from...

Here’s mine .

Way, way out of my league - clever bloke!

No need to apologise - you weren’t to know that we’re a funny lot 😁

Unsuccessfully tried to PM you, probably because you just joined today. If you’re happy to be contacted by email, please email me via: dorset@wscc,co.uk. Thanks

It will be if I put some on my only set of wheels!! Forecast for this Tuesday is dry til about 11 then 50 percent chance of rain showers..will be my last session on three reasonable R1Rs and one not so good.. but should be good practice for the 22nd..

Spoke to the nice lady at the hotel, they’re hoping to be open from the 15th July. She said she’d confirm in the next 2 weeks 😁

Pics and vids or it didn't happen!

And I'm late too - hope you had a great birthday 🎂

Happy birthday to youhoooo ! (better late than never )

Hayley. What a great reminder of your dad. looking forward to following your adventures.

Happy birthday Julie. 🎂 🎂 🎂 🎂 🎂 🎂 🎂 🎂

I just want to point out that video has been cut somewhat unfairly, the gentleman was being obstructive in the way he approached the officers, I don't think what they did was correct or appropriate at all, but they're doing a difficult job and the media are just trying to spin this thing into a frenzy. It's the same with our own Police force...... What the BBC used in a report versus the full photograph. All they're doing is creating outrage, bringing more protesters, more violence and now we have our war veterans heading to London to protect our national monuments (which is a really bad idea), it's going to be a blood bath and the media are going to do what they always do and selectively report on it to create yet more outrage, shaming our veterans as "far right racist thugs", and using photo's of football hooligans and/or editing photos as shown above. In America it's all about votes in the upcoming presidential elections, but here it seems to serve no real purpose, aside from some nasty child grooming stuff which is passing under the radar. I'm really sorry, i'm just angry about how people on both sides are being played off each other by the media outlets.

Thanks, that's a beautiful part of Devon. I have seen 3 other Westfields around the Minehead area on a fairly regular basis, not sure if they are members? We own a restaurant so when things get back to normal maybe I'll invite the club to a slap up lunch with parking at Dunster castle. https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=reeves+restaurant+dunster&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-gb&client=safari

Happy Birthday Julie, hope you had a great day xx

Happy Bday

So here’s how it goes .... So pet, this week we have in Wales... wouldn’t it be a really nice place to take the Westy with us on the trailer - I mean it would be ideal for nipping to the shops in and we can leave the dog at the holiday let while we go. Oh and by the way I might have to pop up to a place near Tarporley on the Wednesday to make sure the engine is ok. “Sounds fab” says Julie

Hope you're having a great day Julie

Happy birthday Julie x

MHR

Happy birthday Julie!

Agree, good to hear different points of view. Still don’t quite understand the link between a brutal murder in the USA and the taking down of Fawlty Towers. We’ve discussed things a little in our extended family as we have two mixed race grand daughters (nice shade of cappuccino.) The general feeling is what a mess, with a real risk that the original issue is being hijacked for other purposes.

Lockdown has given me the once in a lifetime opportunity to finally sort my garage out. From start to finish including painting the walls, levelling the floor and wiring it

Surely there are cameras along that motorway and The vehicle identified from the numberplate?