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Hi,All. I finally became a Westfield Owner! But my car needs many repair and modify to go for drive... Sadly,There ar not many Westfield Owners in Japan... Could you give me a hand please? I'm looking forward to the next Westfield World! Thanks.

Second jab, nice day, it would be rude not to take the car

Pleased with my work. Just replaced poorly fitted rubber edging on the rear wheel arch protectors. Liked this edging on a fellow members car. All the best HB

On the way back from MOT today, all good with no advisories😊

From this weekend at Croft

Surely these are good enough to become a forum regular? "The Ex- chairman's hand-grenade" Eagerly awaiting the next installment. 💣. 👍. 🤣

@Captain Colonial……….Playfully rolling a Brexit grenade into the room...🤦🏼‍♂️ You just wanted something not car related to read, in guessing? 😁

A couple of videos and photos of me playing tail end charlie

It wasn't difficult to make you feel welcome @Glynn Andrews, you bring us a supercharged Mega S2000, you are a really nice guy and your wife is called Julie Andrews, what's not to like😃 We have a lot of newbies at the mo and the whole group are just gelling together so easily, it's a different set of people each week, it's just soooooo faaaaaab, THANK YOU EVERYBODY XXXXXX

*apologies to members with a Westfield equipped with the steering column from an Allegro

In answer to Steve's question... I haven't seen or heard of any positives yet for the average UK citizen. Obviously a select few stand to gain, or are already gaining, but they would have figured this out in advance and of course rallied for the change. I also think those who had / have more links with Europe are discovering the realities more quickly.

Hello everyone. I've just joined. Recently started the search for my first Westy. I'd prefer to build from scratch but just don't have the time. I have a MEV Exocet at the moment and want to use that for track and have a Westy for the road. I've been reading-up on advice for newbies and the consensus seems to be to (a) be clear about what you want, (b) try out different options, and (c) get along to some meetings and talk to some of you chaps. Having looked at the national map and where local groups are, there seems to be a huge void where I am (East Sussex). I considered going up to Toybox but am a bit wary having read of some people's experiences. Don't want to have the wool pulled over my eyes because I'd be obviously inexperienced and short on knowledge. Would be grateful for any advice. Looking forward to the journey. Thanks Nige

Welcome Nige, there's a fair amount of Westfield's around your neck of the woods, their just shy woodland creatures. Re Toy Box If you see something that takes your fancy 100% bring along a experienced Westfield owner as they should be able to guide you, which is pretty much the same advice as buying a Westfield from anywhere else.

Myself and Andy will be there at 7:30 but when everyone goes off for a drive we are off for a steak pie.

I like what you did there

Not so recent but Cadwell Park likes it

Since I appear to be properly in mire now, I may as well carry on. It is impossible to separate the current global pandemic from anything happening in other areas. It has royally stuffed up any plans that may have been in place and aggravated everything. Much like the whole in/out thing, we can never know how things might have gone had the world not had to deal with Covid.

I almost stopped reading here. Brexit wasn't abut you. But lets carry on a bit... Can you point me to the research in to this that has some empirical statistics covering the same questions pre and post Brexit? I'd like to have a read of that. News articles in The Guardian don't count... Again where are these numbers, and can we compare them to "narural wastage" pre Brexit/Covid to see the depth of the problem. You're advocating that employers are right to take advantage of cheap foreign labour? Really? Has it been going on for so long that we now EXPECT all the "back office" jobs to be done by non-indiginous people? Lets get to engineering. I work for an engineering company. We've had our best year ever, despite both the pandemic and Brexit. Maybe we just have better people at the top. The market isn't lost. The paperwork has become a bit of a pain but it's not the huge problem some say it is. The EU for their part are seeming to be deliberately obstructive and must shoulder some of the responsibility for this. They had the opportunity to play nice. They chose petulance. Maybe these are their true colours? As ever with emotive subjects we are all guilty of listening to our own echo chamber and there is a propensity for confirmation bias. I'm as guilty of this as anyone on occasion, but I do try to find un-biased opinons so that I can post a link to the information as I blurt out my latest diatribe. I'd be interested to see some evidence that supports this opinion that everything is now worse. Some things are a bit worse, no doubt about it. It will improve with time. In the mean-time I'm with Corse-Chris...

A certain Christine: Perfect as she was then...

See? this is precisely a topic I rather avoid in person,and much less with alcohol involved. When I´m writting I´m able to read back and contain myself... barely, but this rarely happens in person 😆 and this is a very sensitive topic for me as it will cost me A LOT of money and will directly impact to my retirement plan. For me has been pretty bad as I will struggle a lot to get a fair treatment when I sell my house and I bring the money back to spain... (cash that originaly came from spain and more than likely now will be taxed)... same with my savings and my future pension. But as you can see, I´ve left my personal situation aside in my previous post... the same I don´t care about the whole of uk as I´ll not be here forever and is a decision you´ve taken, the whole of UK doesn´t care about my personal unfair situation. The fact is that as I say in my last sentence, it must be two sides of the coin... and as I´ve said in my first sentence, I could not care less if is the right or the wrong decision for the country. However, the points I´ve written are facts. Delaying projects of british companies because there is no workers available can´t be a good thing. If a company that owns 8500hotel rooms in uk and could be sold out is only able to sell shy of 5000 because there is no workforce... can´t be a good thing. I know how good has been for my mates that used to work in leighton hospital, left due brexit, and came back earning twice the money... so again its been UK´s loss here (and this is a pretty nationwide situation). I know how much my mates are struggling to get stuff from kitcardirect, MK, Westfield, Caterham, Dunnel... because I do have to bl**** send it to Spain... so... for all the other people that doesn´t have maurici in uk ready to forward stuff and they have to buy in germany, or second hand in france to avoid the burden of dealing with customs or simply because the british company can´t be arsed to deal with it... Can´t be a good thing. I still have not found anybody telling me "mate, thanks to brexit, I´m doing better". It may be a masterplan behind it that is above my understanding... some sort of faith for the greater good or something, but till getting there, if ever, a lot of people will be f***** in the way to it. It sounds to me like the inmigration problem, wasn´t that much of a problem but a solution for the kind of jobs where the brits are to snob to do or there is simply not enough qualified people to do it (same that happens in spain with south americans and north africans not really a shame about it). All the other macro economics behind it, are pure fantasy for me and they have no sense if to achieve them you screw half of the population. Now, I´ll stop talking about the topic. I have avoided to talk about it in the forum or in person for that matter for the last 3 years, and today I was in the mood. I´m now back to stealing jobs, raping brides and eating kids... that is why I came here for in first instance 🤣

Dorset Area get together Thursday 1st July at The Crown Inn Bridport (DT6 4AX) at 20.00. Hope to see you there.

Good to see Haynes have excellent taste in selecting pictures to grace their posts! https://www.facebook.com/groups/530159797641538/permalink/817357632255085/

That sound like a canny part time job to stop you getting bored!

Have a great Birthday guys! 🍻

*whistles innocently...* The word “playfully” was in the title, as in “lighthearted”, “not serious”, “jokingly”, etc. However, it sadly seems to have gotten a bit heated, for which I apologise to the Mod Squad, just in case it has popped up on their radar screens. I’m going to lock the thread now as the joke has already been forgotten. PS: Had an appointment with my new asthma consultant today, after an unexpected three week delay (I’m fine). My excellent long-term consultant, Dr Martinez, has left the NHS and moved back to Spain - no prizes for guessing why. ☹️

Nobody is ever going to be able to say if Brexit was a good idea or not - it's simply not possible as nobody can tell you what would have happened had the vote been for stay, any more than they can predict what will happen now. Sadly, the Mk1 Crystal Ball never made it to prototype stage. @Maurici. I hope I have this right. You came here because the financial sun was shining and you wanted to make some hay, yes? Great, good for you. The fact that the benefits and health system in this country is so f***** up it allows for multi-generation families of feckless work shy indigenes to thrive and multiply, and thus encourage workers from other countries to come here and fill the vacancies is a whole other issue - I've never had a problem with someone that wants to work for a living. As for the whole colonial thing, well, our forebears certainly screwed everybody over there, didn't they. Now a storm has rolled in. You are standing outside, p******** and moaning about the rain and shaking your fist at the clouds. Sorry mate, **** happens. Buy an umbrella or go somewhere the sun is shining for you would seem the two sensible choices.