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As you may well recall my father passed away late March after contracting COVID 19. Today I uncovered his 1957 Daimler Conquest Century and afternoon a bit of fiddling and fettling I got it running. Sounded really sweet once warmed up.

Applecross looking good today!

Had a mixed day of heavy rain and bright sunshine. But nice at Ullapool now

Mobile repairs with Stumpy note - no Westfields were harmed during this episode 😁

Actually he checked it today and confessed it’s “only” got 87,622 on the clock. The charlatan 🤣🤣

As new small Nippon Denso alternator. Fitted with 63mm multi grooved pulley With wiring plug and connector £75 posted John O797I 576848

I came into the last 5 min of the series being shown on Quest, ‘Vintage Voltage’. They televised the electrification of a Chesil Speedster. Here’s Autocar review.... https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/westfield-and-chesil-launch-pioneering-electric-kit-car https://www.vintagevoltage.tv https://www.dplay.co.uk/live/quest/2020-07-16 Andy

I find myself looking for the latest post first thing every morning - even before doing the Quick Crossword in the paper. Mrs Marks likes them, too. I salute your work, sir! 😀 Simon

Fantastic driving roads..

it would probably be expensive visiting there as I would probably come away with something above budget😁

Cheers Gary. You have some great roads up there.... very jealous 🥰

Just talking to Jonathan who has a Westfield Pre Lit. It used to have a trusty crossflow but many years ago he put iwhat he believes was the very first blackbird engine in a Westy. Possibly the first bike engine? Not sure. Amazingly this car has over 100,000 miles on it! His first blackbird engine did 70,000 miles including tours of the alps many times over. So for those who think our cars don’t do long miles or that bike engines can’t tour - or that blackbird engines don’t last - here’s proof!

Old experienced man speaking up here... 🤪 Any user name that starts with “Guest” is a throwback to late 2011-early 2012 when the forums became post-able for paying club members only. (ACW can explain the technicalities further if he likes.). Once someone paid their membership fee, the “Guest” bit disappeared automatically. In other words, the account in the OP hasn’t been actively used since at least November 2011. However, the magnificent @Mark Redpath - WSCC Membership Secretary who is a wizard backstage and a fantastic MemSec will no doubt help get it all sorted. Might be a case of merging two accounts. Just thought I’d add some background to it. 👍

A couple of weeks ago over a (socially distanced) beer with a neighbour of ours he was moaning about the price of the servicing of his wife's Q3, turns out they had quoted 600 odd quid to replace 2 front wishbone bushes . Thats just the bushes in their housings, not complete arms. Anyhow after nearly choking on said beer I suggested he'd be insane to pay that. Bring it over and I'll change them and he could owe me a beer. In the end we decided to go for 2 full arms so all the bushes and ball joints all from lemforder for less than 220 quid. I recieved a box of beer as reward and was very happy at that. However they went one step further and bought me another gift which I thought very thoughtful and was well chuffed with, which is an achievement as my Mrs says im the worse person to buy gifts for.

I'm glad to be of service, another positive from the week away was that I managed to buy some mushroom brushes...... I kid you not, one should never wash a mushroom, the dirt/soil/manure should be dry brushed from the mushroom...... this public information is offered freely.....as I'm such a fungi.... (pun intended) Nem...............

Well I reckon I can help there..... if you need a boat then it's the Swamp bits, if you have to tie the boat up a lot then it's the tidal bits.... and if a simple bilge pump will work for you then it's got to be land bits..... hope that helps !

I shall sign this thread off with a short report on the "holiday". Arrived and loaded the boat, no requirement to teach me how to drive it after the question "driven a boat before?".... "errr yeah, several the largest being 4500 ton submarines" We pottered off and before long the mother in law says "the dog needs to have a walk", "where are we?", "can you lift the dog on/off" "where are we now" and repeat. First night, the domestic water pump that was situated under our bed ran continuously....... until I found the fuse, that was then followed at regular intervals through the night with "can you switch the water on" after every visit to the loo..... and they not once managed to arrange a pee at the same time. "can you lift the dog on/off" Then the shower hose in our bathroom fell apart and got stuck in its storage tube, this rendered it entirely useful for washing hands but not at all useful for having a shower. "can you lift the dog on/off" I forget the specifics due to self medicating with lashings of beer, wine and spirits but after a day or two of not seeing any town or village that required more than 10 minutes to explore, I got the "is there anywhere to walk about and sight see/shop/go to the pub?", so I pointed the boat at Great Yarmouth, "can you lift the dog on/off" and when we arrived told the boatyard where we were for fixing the defects, a half day lost in Great Yarmouth Yacht Station waiting for a fixer person fit a new pump & shower hose, finished off by a walk about in biblical rain, Der Hund got so wet that he looked utterly miserable and he smelled worse than a moldy rug as he dried out, and to ice the cake so to speak, I got an ear bashing from everyone except Der Hund because the ladders on the quayside (being a tidal part of the river) were difficult to use. The following morning we left Great Yarmouth behind and motored all day to Wroxham, "can you lift the dog on/off" etc...(the equivalent of crossing the Atlantic in a 747), 10 chip shops, a toy store, a small supermarket and the worst pub meal ever. Overnight stay punctuated with "can you lift the dog on/off" etc... The following morning whilst I waiting for the marina staff to pump the effluent tanks I decided to give the outside of the boat a clean with the mop and some mild detergent, something that had been missed by the hire company before we collected the boat...... nothing too strenuous, just a gentle mop and microfiber to get the crud off...... tanks pumped, breakfast at a local cafe followed by a short motor downstream to a nice looking pub called "The New Inn" the plan was an early mooring and walk about, "can you lift the dog on/off"..... almost immediately I got assaulted by a grumpy swan, it didn't seem to like getting a slap when he went for me (totally unprovoked, it decided to attack just for fun) anyway we booked in for dinner with the warning that there was a limited menu..... Limited my rear..... superb food and great beer, oh the beer was good, did I mention how good the beer was? I seemed to have found a state of happy that no amount of "can you lift the dog on/off" was going to destroy, and I was soooooo looking forward to getting to bed..... however my "cleaning" of the boats exterior seemed to have removed the crud that was sealing the cut out in the roof (assuming from a re-fit of the engine) and our bed was now the same moisture content as the swamp that is Norfolk, and there was a steady trickle of rain water adding to it by the minute. "can you lift the dog on/off" Engineers called again (couldn't fault the poor lad who had to come and sort it)"can you lift the dog on/off" the roof re-sealed in the hoofing rain, the engineer had to go back to the boatyard to get us some non swamp bedding and we pulled out and made up what should have been a double bed in the saloon, however, this "bed" was never intended to be used following a downgrade of the boats passenger capacity, so some of the bits that made up the mattress were missing, I attempted to sleep in what I can only describe as a trench until the Sage (who is a slight thing) rolled over and the whole thing collapsed faster than an economy under COVID...... twenty minutes of teeth gnashing "can you lift the dog on/off" and the Sage suffering from hysterical laughter saw us sleeping on the floor with Der Hund, he's lucky I didn't evict him, his bed was comfier than ours, I woke up with Der Hund snuggled up to me, I drank several cups of coffee ate a bacon sarnie and promptly set about returning the boat early, but of course there was the "can you lift the dog on/off" even the drive home in our T5 camper was punctuated with "can you lift the dog in/out".... It's been a couple of days at home now, I'm feeling a little better thanks. Nem..............

Oh.... and here’s Der Hund......

I tried that..... we were in Madeira, I had my extremely nice Zenneiser earphones plugged firmly in my ear canals, but to no avail, it ended up costing me thousands of pounds..... I went back to SCUBA diving !

I was about to give you advice regarding Norfolk broads but then found out after reading your post we were talking about very different things.