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Hi all, Firstly thanks for all the help and advice so far from everyone... yesterday was the magic day I became the new owner of @a15cro’s stunning car! Had a fantastic drive back for around 200 miles! Really excited to get plenty more in and hopefully find a few meets out here in the east! Thanks! Danny

Thanks Julie and Glen for another great day around the Peaks. Great company and great roads as usual.

Thanks everyone and especially @Julie Hall - Peak District AO for a brilliant day today. 208 miles of no roof fun - not to mention the two pieces of cake. Different picture this time from the tracker - satellite version 😀

Brill photo's Andy, thank you and the nose cone's make for a good viewpoint. We have had another great day out meeting at the popular Bull I Thorn cafe, Buxton. Martin was parked over in the naughty corner so I joined him. He also had polished his car in lockdown, Luke's was even shinier. After lots of breakfast's and catch up's it was time to move these magnificent, mechanical machines, that's what we own them for afterall. I chose the flowing bends of the Bentley Brook road before heading onto the lanes around Dove Dale, where our small cars are perfectly suited to be chucked around, finishing off with the alpine twistyness of the Crowdecote road, perfect. We enjoyed good views all the way and only picked up a bit of traffic in Ilam, cars always turn into the car park there leaving the hill clear. This fetched us straight back to The Bull I Thorn, well, why not? the cakes are good. Slowly down the hills of Dove Dale Dove Dale On the way to Ilam Finding some traffic in the village centre, bye bye as they all turned into the car park Ilam is very pretty with it's swiss style cottages Arriving at the Bull the bonnet's soon came off, V8 sounded lovely too We chose to gather safely in the car park Bill was first to succumb to the indulgences ahead, conveniently having his own table going on. His car had passed it's MOT so Bill chose the native car this week instead of one from his Germanic portfolio. Then it got messy as we wrote off the lemon cake The Cake Meister, Andy, at work, although he has competition as the other Andrew had 2 pieces today Indulging outside the Bull Chris turned up and it was time to 'Pass the Magnet' to Andy whose wing stay had broken after the run last week. Chris had his new headlights firmly attached this week. Excellent service from Patrick and Jason at the Westfield Factory for both the headlights and the wing stay, the Peak District area is not on commision I might add! This magnet was like a hot potato though as Andy was quick to suggest that Luke should be the holder of it with a loose anti roll bar and a cooling issue anything could happen. Watch out, it might be your turn next! Luke had tales having recently returned from his Scottish camping holiday in the Westfield, had he shrunk in the rain? having lost 2 stone and looking about 10 years younger, reminds me I must buy some lettuce. Well done Luke. Dave's car had passed it's MOT so he was able to join us too We stayed and tyre kicked for a good while, the sun even made an appearance at one point until it was time to go home, where does the time go? I have just had a new Coolex radiator on my car and having fitted bobbins it has placed the rad further into the nose cone, resulting in the pipe not being long enough. As shown below it is a bit of bodge job to lengthen the bottom hose to the radiator. Glen does not do bodge jobs so decided we needed a more permanent solution. He got a longer piece of Aluminium pipe made up like this When we got home the coolant was drained, again, and it went from this jumble of hoses, pipes and jubilee clips to this, one length of pipe. Miraculously nobody got burned as we dodged hot pipes with arms and legs. Thank you to everyone that came and enjoyed the day with us, especially for your flexibility when I changed the day to dodge the rain, hope to see you next weekend for more of the same. Don't forget, watch out for that magnet!

Just outside Ipswich @TableLeg!! the number plate flew off after 3 miles on the A1 @a15cro!!!! Had a vinyl one made today!!! Was great out on some proper roads today!

Here you go. I think you will be extremely lucky to find a used one. https://parts.westfield-sportscars.co.uk/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=1015&tag=channel

Adrian Flux for me too. I've been with them for a few years with my (lightly modified) tintop, and it's been getting cheaper year on year when most other insurers won't even give me a quote. Just insured the Westfield with them too, and got a really good price. Interestingly, the underwriter is Markerstudy who AngliaWestie above got a policy from though A Plan. I'll certainly be shopping around though next year. It's irritating, but always worth it. Two hours on the phone yesterday knocked nearly £200 off my home insurance renewal.

Looking at your route you could take in the Hive Beach Cafe near West Bay. Great stop for a seafood lunch and a stretch of legs.

Just for @CraigHew since he loves them so much... 😝

All sorted poor battery ground connection !!

These fit on the chassis rail that when you sit in the car is under your knees so that tube is the same on all chassis if you are talking about the bodywork kick strips they are also available from monday tueaday next week

Hi Folks need some help if anyone lives in Bourton on the water. Been out for a drive stopped at the coop to get a sandwich. Now there are no signs of electrical life . No lights on dash or side lights, horn ... All I've got with me is a bulb and some wire !! Could use a multi meter