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Finally started my Westfield journey after buying the perfect car from @Rallimart, cannot fault Martin at all for his professionalism with handling the sale. The journey home was a tale of ups and downs as the fuel pump decided to go duff, after breaking down on the A38 and in calls with Martin who was scouring the owners club for possible faults and the best place to tow (Lifesaver), managed to get the car to a garage in Derby, then had a drive over to Euro spares for a new Facet fuel pump. Got the pump fitted and was back on the road! Absolutely love the car and can't thank Martin enough for the help he gave me. It also gives me a perfect first job of taking apart the fuel filter and source why the fuel pressure is so low from the outlet to the carbs. Once again cheers Martin!

Taken mine to work a couple of times this week.

I’m booked on with my new purchase today 😊

After 2 hours of toing and froing, ended up with a SEFW with 170bhp Throttle bodied zetec. LSD, wide track, uprated brakes, turbo seats and 4 point, and a heater. Delivery end of august..... Can't wait.

That’s both very funny and very sad Don. That’s the sort of thing that made me a misanthrope. Other than specific individuals, I truly hate ‘people’. We are a bl**** blight and should have the good grace to just quietly go extinct.

Lovely car and that's not a garage; it's an automotive cathedral. Impressed.

Top Gear on repeat and car SOS

i think theres something dodgy about most of the people 🤪

Been up to Daytuner in Harrogate today to get megabusa remapped. Was there 5 hours sorted out all little issues I had and managed to squeeze out another 15-20bhp 👍👍 so running 160bhp and 96 torque. Would strongly recommend Damian

Looks quite smart I think.

This f***ing s***ty stupid british weather ruined everything...

Nice evening out....

Oh yes I love xtr's. so that means we are 14 plus the Spanish fury At this rate probably going to be the most well attended Westfield event of the year

Westfield Xtr🤓

Nice motor...glad you got it home and happy motoring...all the best from bonnie 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

No body told me about the discount 😢

Last year we had two out of the three days with rain in South Wales and the three times we went to Scotland we had more rainy days than dry days, maybe I should let somebody else pick the dates.

I'm going to be joining in soon.

Tonight should have been our midsummer night's "Run to the sun" going to the east coast, and heading home late into the setting sun, but due to the lockdown the pub is shut, so instead we visited @BugMan at his home. Steve has been self isolating with his wife and not seen anyone from the club for around 3 months, so a run was arranged. It was supposed to be a small group of around 10 to 12 people, but things escalated with some NWKCOG coming along as part of a run they were organising. 6 of us met at the Swan and Cygnet for the half hour run to Steve's, taking a longer route to avoid speed humps and arriving first to get the pick of the cake made by Dawn. Luckily, not all of the NWKCOG came as there probably wouldn't have been enough room in the street, so 2 Westfields, 2 Tigers and a Grinnal Scorpion joined the 7 Westfields already there. Coffee and cake was consumed, cars and Carona talked about, and I hope everyone, especially Steve had a good time. Again, a big thank you to Dawn for the cake and their understanding neighbour's.

Thank you all for your comments, thankfully I had lockdown to completely revamp the garage ready for its arrival.

Wonder how much the MOD spent painting it grey?

Well done to you all and special best wishes to Steve and Dawn.

Glad to read the initial hick-ups, have been overcome. Enjoy your new car and hobby!

Lovely looking car mate, glad you made it home 👍🏻 and Some real strong garage envy going on Right now 😂😂😂

Tele in the garage! What luxury. Mine dosent even have leccy

Strong Garage Game! westy wont be happy it cant see the tele though!

Thats a nice looking car and garage. Glad you made it home

I agree Steve but the BBC is still peddling that this cost £900k for the paint job. I think it looks befitting of the UK and certainly better than the grey before

Spot on Ben mate 👍🏻 Even more of a beast now 😍😁

It got 4 M8 bolts Jim 😀😀 towbar fitted to Disco today all set for Scotland 👍🏼👍🏼

I am up for it looking forward to a run with other cars.

We're up for it

Car is now sold and gone to a great new home! Thankyou for all the kind comments on the car... It will be missed.

There is a falcon 9 rocket launch today that passes over UK a few minutes later at 21:55 On Thursday 25th June 2020 we are in for a treat. We can watch a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch a new batch of 60 Starlink satellites live from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Around 15 minutes later, the very same rocket and its payload of 60 Starlink satellites should be quite visible as it passes over the UK after launch. What Time? The Starlink launch is expected at 21:39 BST (UK Time). This may change so stay up to date on launch timings with @VirtualAstro on twitter and Facebook. The final stage of the rocket and its cargo of satellites should be visible approximately 10 – 15 minutes after launch. So, start looking at 21:55 if the launch goes to plan. Give yourself a few minutes leeway either side. Please note: Northern areas of the UK may not be able to see the spacecraft immediately after launch due to sunset times, especially in Scotland. However, you should be able to see the satellites on consecutive passes. Follow @VirtualAstro on twitter and Facebook for info. https://www.meteorwatch.org/

My wife’s first ride in the Westfield. I don’t know where she thinks she is going to put that shopping? 😁

Nice run out this weekend

I can say it was fantastic to see people in the flash, and had great time catching up with everyone and some new friends from NWCOGS Cant say enough about my super wife, Dawn who just takes this sort of thing in her stride. MASSIVE thanks to everyone, this sort of thing is a really big thing for me in my fight against the big C A super day, so glad we had the drive expanded

No spectators allowed ATM due to covid😏 🤞that changes before long

You are correct Steve but we the consumer have to take the initiative. I try to buy British but as you say so much is made in China component wise that it is hard. We have in our family two BMW minis, had MG before. British appliances and I just bought a new Triumph bike, which is still a British company with two factories in the UK and four around the world. Again simple things like call centres, we have people here that can do the work and yet so many companies in the past shipped jobs over there when it was cheap to do it, even the NHS has some back room functions done in India, why? many companies are bringing those jobs back already as consumers have demanded that. BT are bringing everything back to the UK as an example. We need to take into account the cost of unemployment on society not just monetary, mental health etc. How many of the young who have jumped on the current bandwagons would do so if they had a stake in society with money and some self worth. Japan and the US have set funds aside to bring jobs back from China not only for the economics but also security of supply. The pandemic has shown how woefully prepared all countries was and the reliance on China exposed. We should do the same not in an isolistical way as we can never stop trading with the world but a practical way. Above all we need more young to value education and hard work, the chance of becoming rich as a grime star or footballer are slim for most yet, with the right schooling and direction most can do well and achieve abilities in areas where we need skills. We also need to stop so many feeling they must go to university when again for many skills like electronics, computers, building skills all pay good money and are in need.

Solution is we need to start making 'stuff' again. The sheer amount of supplies we are having to bring in from China and other places throughout the pandemic illustrates this perfectly. But to do this we'd need to ween everyone off cheap imported stuff (tax it?). Simplistic view I know but with the B word looming we need to be more self sufficient. The economy would only grow if we did.

They say, KitCars are never finished (fighting with bearings play and pads thickness on first trackday this Year )

Donington a week on Friday, rocking the caravan wheels and tyres 😆