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Well, I have a "significant" birthday next Monday, so I wanted to treat myself. I've sold my heavily-modified turbo-nutter Fiat Coupe and also got rid of the daily-driver Alfa GT. However, I love the coupe bodystyle, so...

Thanks for yet another grand tour of the Peaks @Julie Hall - Joint Peak District AO I think you might have been watching too much Strictly tho 💃

If you mean by that there are a handful of pro-Brexit members who are much more boisterous than all the other members (pro or anti), I’d agree. I’d find it hard to believe the membership as a whole isn’t much closer to 50/50 split, though. I’ve stopped expressing my anti-Brexit views in here for reasons best kept to myself. Anyway…. Best of luck! And…

a small update to this thread, last week my uncle was transferred to more suitable care home since the previous one, although claiming to deal with dementia really didn't cope that well with him and that inturn was making his behaviour worse, i rang the new care home yesterday and they report he has settled in nicely with none of the reported behaviours taking place. a lot of this was caused by staff not having suitable skills in dealing with certain types of dementia, which in my uncles case is called lewy body, having had him re-diagnosed. so should anyone out there be in a similar situation, i think doing a lot of research on where is best is paramount and preferably recommendations of others who have had to do this . the local council were quite helpful with suggestions even though he was funding himself rather than help from the nhs.

I think it’s a winner winner chicken dinner: 1963 Vauxhall Cresta PB interior

A-Plan has just beat my current house and contents insurance by over £40! Thank you Josh. @A-Plan Insurance THATCHAM

and some are now on proud display 😎

Finally got all my bad boys together after my house move earlier this year 😎

I am glad Becky got that shot, it is the road from Hathersage to Grindleford and the colours of the trees are lovely at this time of year. In the next couple of weeks they all turn yellow and it's even more beautiful, note to self - go back there in November. Lovely photo's Bex, thank you, and to Andy for posting them. I love to see other people's photos of the day.

Right all you Andy's @AndrewBClarke @aeg@Andy Westwood you can chuff right off because I am the Champion of Cake, winner of the Largest Slice of the Day award for today. I can report that it was absolutely very tasty and a much better choice for breakfast than a full English!! But I must thank ABC for the black pudding he gave me as a solid aperitif, that was yummy too. Everyone else had more traditional breakfast fare We all met at The Bull i Thorn and we had all travelled through heavy drizzle so I take my hat off to you all for coming out. Out of camera shot was Allan and Callan who joined us with no roof on, well done boys. I am pleased to report that when we came out of the Bull it had stopped raining and it was dry for the rest of the day. Glynn, Dan and us at the Bull Allan and Callan, ABC and aeg parked at the Bull Billy and Bill Senior in the fastest car of the day. Everyone else, on triple 8's or otherwise, had wiggley back ends and had to slow it a bit. Speed is a bit of a sore subject at the mo because someone picked up a speeding ticket on the way to the Lake District for her holidays last week. Was I in the the racy Westfield? No. Was I in the sporty MX5? No. I was in the ruddy van going along the A66. The speed limit changes 60mph to 50mph and back again, I saw the speed camera van, looked down and saw I was doing 58mph and thought great, carry on girl, it's national speed limit. Then just after I saw the 50 sign, drat, what a numpty, what an idiot. So off to the speed awareness course it is for me. Our route for today headed East on the 13 bends to a quiet Bakewell, up the Curbar Gap, through Chatsworth and to Peak Rail at Rowsley, where there was a steam train waiting for us. Young Callan was highly delighted and it was a joy to see his little face. The train in the station The train on the move It was not long before the nose bags were on and and we all tucked into lunch as everyone else had disappeared onto the train. It all worked out in the end and we were rewarded with quiet roads as everyone else had stayed home. It's been wonderful company and thank you all for coming, see you next weekend at the museum.

Fitted the brake bias valve today. It needed a bracket making to mount it to the chassis, I got a price from Fractory but they wanted over £200 so I thought I’d make it myself on the mill. Total cost £6.73 for the aluminium so quite a saving. and all mounted in position.

What about a Vauxhall Cresta ?

Same here - got up early enough to attend, but looked outside and wimped out instead. No fun with no windscreen, especially when the aeroscreen seems perfectly angled to direct water into your lap.... That said, if I'd known Billy was going to turn up in a "normal" car, I'd probably have ventured out in my latest acquisition - a stupidly-loud, ultra-thirsty V8 - my last hurrah before we're all forced into Nissan leafs or Renault Zoes

You know me, if it's dry (ish) I'll be there! It was tipping it down at home, it would have been like driving in a car wash with no windscreen 😂

I kept thinking of you yesterday, thinking Rob will be kicking himself when the weather wasn't so bad. If we had met at 11am we would have been dry. Not to worry, there is all winter to enjoy😱 That's interesting, I hope so.

This is the 1960s logo,

Thanks Ian and John I did search Blue book but on further investigation determined the scrutineers listing is now only available via the motor sports members web page. I've now identified a local scrutineer for contact later Land Line Phone) Thanks both

Vauxhall Victor, possibly FB. Griffin badge on the steering wheel. My dad had one when I would have been a similar age.

Gremlin -check out the visibility around the C-pillars. I have no idea if they were suggesting carrying ladies in the back. Pacer estate car, still halfway in its box:

Yes Dave you’re right! Same design team though 🤣🤣

Have a great day @Alan France, @Westy119 & @Luke Algar 🍺🍺🍺

Happy Birthday guys!

If the weather is dry I will go in my Westfield, well you have to don't you?

Thanks again Julie for a slightly soggy but still enjoyable peaks run👍 Car now de-cow crapped ready for next week!

Julie that cake looked yummy 😋 I'm Not jealous honest. You could get one of these for your speed awareness course. It's a petrol one 😂

How do you know when you’ve lost the plot? Answer :- when you walk out of the house on a cold wet Sunday morning ,the garden lights come on because it still thinks it’s dark and you tie yourselves into a open top sports car for the hour and a half trip to see “friends” . I thank my fellow nutcases for another great day out, we’re now home warm and dry and the car is now free of cow **** , see you next time luv Andy & Becky a train going backwards 🤔 follow the leader and down the pretty tree lined roads

A great morning with @Andy Westwood at Curborough. Plenty of classics in the carpark plus a bit of Westfield vs Cateringvan action on track 👍

Yep McGill, used them a few times... Good 👍 https://www.mcgillmotorsport.com/

McGill motorsport they’ll sort you out and quick too

One of the difficulties of old race cars and particularly those that are prototypes is that there’s very little information or anything to copy when it comes to some of the technical details. Shock length was easy enough to calculate from the geometry and there was four old Spax dampers that came with the collection of parts which supposedly were from the car. All good so far but then comes spring selection. I had twice as many springs as there were shocks so little idea as to which were for this car so somehow I needed to work out the spring rates. The obvious way would be to physically test them but as they will need to be replaced and the budget needs reining in a bit I opted for the mathematical route. Those that know the maths can skip ahead but for those of you that don’t the spring rate is calculated from the following parameters: L = Free Length of The Unloaded Spring (m) G = Shear Modulus of Rigidity of Material d = Wire Diameter (m) D = Mean Diameter (m) N = Number of active coils (an active coil sweeps one full circle) For spring steel the shear modulus would be around 79,300,000,000 Pa and the Mean Diameter = Total Spring Diameter – Wire Diameter These parameters are then entered into the following formula. Based on the dimensions of my on springs this gave me spring rates of 83983, 98620, 33196 and 42766 N/m which equates to 478, 562, 189 and 243 lbs/ins in old money. Now I know the spring rates the next task is to determine which of these were fitted to the car and for this we need to look at the wheel rates and suspension frequency. I won’t type it all out but this guide from Koni is what I’m working from. The published data for my JW4’s was much better and these had a suspension frequency of 3.5Hz which seems consistent with racing cars so I will stick with this but I’ve had to estimate corner weights for the Costin since the car is nowhere near complete. I’ve taken an educated guess at 85kg for the front wheels and 125kg rear again based on the same F/R bias as the JW4 but allowing a bit more for the heavier engine and chassis. By way of a comparison I found these figures online for various different types of cars. 0.5-1.0Hz Passenger cars, typical OEM 1.5-2.0Hz Rally Cars 1.5-2.5Hz Non-Aero racecars, moderate downforce Formula cars 2.5-3.5Hz Moderate downforce racecars with up to 50% total weight in max downforce capability 3.5-5.0+Hz High downforce racecars with more than 50% of their weight in max downforce Plugging the different spring rates into the formula I found the 189lbs/ins springs at the front gave a wheel frequency of 3.6Hz and the same with 240bs/ins on the rear. Conversely the heavier springs would have given a wheel frequency of 5.5Hz so clearly wrong for this car. So based on these results and what’s available from Faulkner off the shelf I’ll be fitting 175lbs/ins springs to the front and 250lbs/ins on the rear as my starting point. and that’s how to loose several evenings and not make it look like you’ve done anything 😀

Fathers day present.

It hasn't. Its made a complete balls of the industry I work In and the fallout won't be seen for a while due covid. No it wasn't. No I won't. It will never be worth it. Not pessemistic. Just realistic from first hand experiences. And no doubt will have to go through it all again when Sturgeon starts banging her drum rounding up the nutter independents.

But we’ve got our blue passports back Maurici, that’s the important thing! 😄 Makes me laugh when people voted to end free movement from Europe, then act surprised when movement into Europe is no longer free! There was a farmer on Woman’s hour this morning complaining about the pig slaughtering situation she voted for brexit but this wasn’t what she voted for… say what you like about “project fear” - it was certainly delivered on time and in budget!!

Gutted I missed it, but I wimped out! 😂