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Scorching hot in Wales yesterday! Had to take the bonnet off after a particularly fun section of road.

Company that made my wife’s engagement and wedding ring just bought a laser engraver, my jewellery shop special looked crap, so I sent them some photos and a sketch Really pleased with the result

Hi all, I have been lurking a while with one or two posts and have decided finally, to join the club. I will🤞 be taking ownership of my first westfield (or kitcar for that matter) on Sunday!! Very exciting and also a little apprehensive as these cars have been a distant dream for much of my early years. Anyhow I will be asking lots of daft questions, but I promise I will search first (for the do a searchers), this is not my first car club forum lol. I don't want to jinx Sunday, but maybe there are others in the cambs area who have a social meet up maybe drive out now things are opening??

managed to work on wheel alignment over the last couple of days. much happier with the balance of the car now.

Welcome from South Derbyshire! You've joined the best club out there! Great bunch of people, really knowledgeable and amazingly helpful. Be careful, there's a terrible Westfield related disease called upgraditus going around these parts 😂 Look forward to seeing photos, hope you enjoy the car 👍

wish id hadn't read this thread. I'm now looking a driving shoes!!!

TableLeg You won't need the roofing torch then. Just a match and chuck the roll of felt on the roof.

If you thought Covid was bad, this is far worse and can last for years and years, infact some are never cured at all 😁

Welcome! What a great car to begin the adventure with! Yes, Paul was very, very well known in the Club for many, many years, indeed at one time he had a business doing build and prep work on Westfields etc. Built or had a hand in, many members cars in the Speed Series, back in the day. Paul did the pre SVA checks and set up the gel on my first Westfield seventeen years ago!

Always have a ball, pump and jumpers for goal posts in the boot.

In Wasdale, English Lake District

I have a selection of items that I'm selling. I'll list them here below, but will post an ad for each item to aid clarity. Please DO NOT respond to this post, if you're interested in an item please respond on the appropriate item post or by PM. I will update this list, and the individual item post titles, if an item is sold / no longer available. Although I'm intending to price these items to sell, I wont be offended by an offer, so long as you're not offended if I say no. I'm also not listing any postage or courier costs, please factor this in if you're interested in an item as I'm gonna let you sort out the logistics of postage/courier/WSCC Courier etc. To be clear, I'm happy to (carefully pack and) post things but that will be at your expense. I wont list an item as sold until the cash is in my bank but I am willing to hold onto things until you work out how you're going to get them. Here's the list (clicky links too): 1: Honda S2000 Secondary cat pipe; 2: SOLD***** Factory Aero Screen (Post Office Red) with mirrors; *****SOLD 3: SOLD *****2 x Toyo R1R tyres 205/50R15;***** SOLD 4: SOLD **** Stormforce Car cover; **** SOLD 5: SOLD *****WSC Cockpit Double Umbrella***** SOLD; 6: 2 x Schroth Harness Shoulder Straps (3" red); 7: 2 sets Schroth 3" strap pads; ****** NEWER SET SOLD****** 8: SOLD ***** Fuel Sender Unit *****SOLD 9: SOLD *****Pair of Poly-carbonate Wind Deflectors (inc fittings)****** SOLD 10: 0.621 Clutch Master Cylinder 11: SOLD *****Pair of Vented and Grooved Hi Spec Discs (Escort Mk II 283mm x 24mm);***** SOLD 12: SOLD ****Pair of front hubs (108PCD)**** SOLD 13: Westfield 4 point harness (red) inc fittings 14: SOLD **** Flat bottom suede steering wheel (? Sparco ?) 15: SOLD **** Rotopax 7.5 litre fuel container **** SOLD ***SEE ADDITIONAL PARTS BELOW******* I'll probably find numerous smaller things in the garage as I go through my stuff in the coming days, anything of interest I will add to the list. Thanks for looking.

As @TableLeg says, there does not appear to be an AO according to the current info, maybe you could put yourself forward, no better way of getting to know your local crowd...

There isn't an area organiser at the moment no, but you can see other members in your area.

Yes it would. I have had the same though. I brought the car with carpet mats but changed for rubber as it can get a little damp there. I suppose I could just remove the rubber completely. 🥂 cheers.

Not at all jealous, not one smidgen.... Wow , that's one heck of a car as your first kitcar, well done.

Yep🤪😳

You won't go far wrong buying from Paul. He is a sound guy.

Once we do the deal on Sunday and it's mine, I will take some pics to post. Want it in the garage first😄

One of the first songs I heard my mother sing a long to,

Oooh new tool chest... (FB marketplace bargain)... well chuffed. 😁 ... might even finally find time for some tinkering...

I have done a couple of edpm roof jobs, so easy, and not expensive, biggest issue is getting to a good surface the membrane will adhere to... I tend to remove the old felt, overlay with osb with smooth joints. Look online at the 'how to' videos, also get a price online..

I used Coroline on my new shed when I put it in, mostly because the old shed, and the sectional garage next to it, that have been there for decades had/have Coroline and it’s still pretty good. It’s almost mess-free to install (if you have to cut it, the saw blade gets a but grubby) and it really seems to last. Main downside is it will sag if unsupported, particularly on a hot sunny day.

But that song never changes irrespective of the colour of the government. There is NOTHING to be lost by the NHS managers repeating this dogma ad infinitum because the vast majority of the public will readily sympathise with this position. Secondly, it has been repeated so often that it is now normal for the public at large to assume that the NHS is underfunded whether that is actually true or not. And I doubt any of us have access to the actual figures. Politically, NHS funding is a no-win for politicians and an easy bit of rhetoric to trot out for the NHS. I suspect the truth about funding is somehwere in between.

Damn, paused a fraction of a second to long!

I'll have them. Pm sent

But you will set a world record for the highest a sheds ever been launched too!

Correct, Swell maps to me would be the OS 1:25000 range not a pop band, certainly woke me up this morning that did...

Try Coroline. I just installed it on one of my sheds.

Not sure on NHS management and the politics of it but when I come to power to show appreciation for all public service personnel like nurses, police constables, firefighters, paramedics, army privates, navy able seamen/yeoman and air force leading aircraftmen (basically the lowest rank/pay grade in all disciplines) who retire with a full pension would be exempt from income tax for the rest of their days irrespective of their level of income or if they take up a new job. And they'd get free TV licenses and road tax too. No idea how I'd pay for it but for people who give so much for so little recognition, I'd find a way.

Adidas Samba for me. https://www.adidas.co.uk/samba-super-shoes/019099.html

This is the drive I did today. pretty much every road is amazing. Lots of views of Snowdon. https://goo.gl/maps/G4u7teahc6hvcUqRA There are some great sights and stops on this route mostly the mach loop for driving a wooden toll bridge and a lake. https://goo.gl/maps/j4sNo2rDCMrgb9iu9 If you want to venture a bit further south Elan Valley is fantastic for driving and also I'm sure there is lots to do there. https://goo.gl/maps/RBrmLKN7EinBnYTk6 Some pics from all the locations for motivation

I have a regular pair of slip on Sketchers I wear for everything including the Westie. When they wear out I'll be buying another pair. Light and very comfortable. Similar to these https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Mens-SKECHERS-Wide-Fit-Memory-Foam-Slip-On-Casual-Trainers-Size-UK-5-5-13/174164267755

https://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/news/clinical-areas/immunology-and-vaccines/gps-and-data-indicate-continued-rise-in-double-vaccinated-covid-cases/ "A weekly update from the ZOE study at King’s College London, said there were currently 15,537 new daily symptomatic cases in partly or fully vaccinated people, an increase of 40% from 11,084 new cases last week. By contrast in unvaccinated people in the UK there are currently an average of 17,581 new daily PCR-confirmed symptomatic cases of Covid, according to the ZOE figures, a drop of 22% from the week before. It suggests the number of new cases in the vaccinated population is set to overtake the unvaccinated in the coming days, the team noted." Of course, if 100% of people are vaccinated and there is 1 case then that means vaccinated people make up 100% of those with the disease, and gradually more people are having the vaccine - but with unvaccinated cases dropping and vaccinated cases increasing so quickly (faster than the speed of vaccine rollout), it seems to indicate that naturally acquired immunity is doing a better job than the vaccine. We are also seeing reduced deaths as a proportion of cases in this wave, but we are gaining natural immunity over time, its summer, and a proportion of those most susceptible to Covid have now passed on. Yet they will claim to have done a brilliant job introducing the vaccine and its been amazingly successful, blah blah. In related news: https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2021/01/04/peter-doshi-pfizer-and-modernas-95-effective-vaccines-we-need-more-details-and-the-raw-data/ Main takeaway from the above article: vaccine effectiveness estimated by unbiased 3rd party at 19-29%. Strong opinion alert: Prediction: Over the next year, our freedoms will be reduced and requirement for vaccine passports increased. Then Covid jabs will become a paid service with booster jabs required every few months to maintain valid vaccine passport status. We'll effectively have a nation of drug addicts. This will help to bolster the NHS balance sheet ready for final sale (anyone remember "Save The NHS" and those working in hospitals commenting on how quiet it was?), and those with shares / fingers in pharmaceutical pies will make huge wedges of cash. (Edit to add: I know I have been skeptical throughout this thread, but I am not anti vax in any way. However, when I am being told to do something (2 letters and 7 text messages now, and counting) by someone / something it makes me wonder why. So I start to research things for myself, and form what I hope to be an unbiased and rounded opinion, no matter which side of the fence that falls, and always be open to changing that with further information and research).

Popped out to donate blood and now I have the army boys at my local reserve centre guarding the car.

Took a trip out to the local cider mill today and made it a 47 mile round trip with a pub lunch😋 Beats going to work 😎

Enjoyed going to work today and the long way home 👍🏼👍🏼

So... not on the fence then?

Hi Mart Sounds like is was great. Starter knackered so getting new one today had to get wife to bring other car for a quick tow home... Happy to catch up when passing as I often do the forest loop as a quick run out. I will let you know when I am out next. Thanks Gary

Somewhere in Perthshire.

first proper drive this weekend.

Thanks Arm, I don't think this is a viable option for me as I have 2 1000L Kerosene heating oil tanks less than 1 meter from 2 different sides of the shed.