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We had our monthly local-area meeting last night; 7pm in a local pub.... nothing unusual, I thought. Except that I was the only one to turn up in a Westfield, which led me to suggest that we should re-name our branch the 'Comfortable Saloon Car Club' in recognition of the 80% of local members who prefer a roof and stereo. However, when I got home at 10.30pm, freezing cold and driving this mud-smuggler, I thought that they might have a point:

I am glad to share with you that I have realized my chilhood dream. My first contact with a Westfield was 20 years ago, I had the opportunity to be passenger in a SEi powered by a 330hp sierra cosworth engine. Thanks to the forum I found my westfield! already adopted by my children. I drove back yesterday from uk. it was really fun, except the rain... you may know this car as the previous owner is WSCC member.

Second week of Westfield ownership. Been having fun tinkering with the interior (although not finding much time to clear out the garage). Hopefully more exotic locales to follow shortly! 😀

As in the title Made from aluminium £15 plus shipping pre pair The £20 note is not included its just to show you the size !!!!!!!!!! Never fitted

@Kingster bet you wish you still had a welder lol

Good to see you last night @Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Secretary. Count me in please.

Sorry to spoil your fun 😂

I'm not aware of a 'club' eu trip in my 10+ years of membership (sure someone will correct me if wrong) There are usually several 'individually' 'locally' organised trips, but many aren't advertised and some a distinctly closed shop. One of the issues of a organising a club wide tour is numbers and logistics of convoys. Someone has to be prepared to put a lot of work in to organise and manage before and throughout tour.

Hi Ben, I've moved your post to here. No official WSCC trips, but many members organise their own trips. I've had 3 great euroblats and the last one is documented here- We planned to revisit in 2020 then 2021, but alas something got in the way. Others include: We'll all happily share advise / experiences etc, just ask. 4 cars/drivers is a nice number for us (Ferry cabin's sleep 4). I imagine bigger groups become harder to reach consensus etc.

Shame you can't make it Bill I'll have to change my shirt now🤨

Hey All, I am a Brit living in Canada and have just last week received my Westfield Miata SDV kit, through Manik Sportscars in Texas. I have been reading a bunch of build threads on here, thanks to Dave's post: https://forum.wscc.co.uk/forum/topic/124073-list-of-build-threads/?tab=comments#comment-1307212, but haven't seen anything more recent. Just wondering if there is anything more recent....and of course LHD would be a bonus! ☺️ Dan

"The agreement"..... this enraged me as a tax payer, I'll elaborate later. EDF purchased British energy when the share price was pennies, the price being driven down by a perfect storm of events that meant the majority of the generating units were shut down for metallurgy checks on the gas circulator 'fan' blades. This was triggered following a catastrophic failure of a blade at Torness, the gas circulator was all but destroyed by the cascade effect of both debris and unbalanced rotational forces, I met the Shift Charge Engineer at Torness (I was working there at the time on a waste project) and I asked him about the failure, he said the reactor "physically bounced around on it's seismic mounts", and he said for the control room tape "what the devil was that?". An understatement I'm sure. The failure was attributed to the wrong type/grade of welding wire being used to 'make up' weight during the balancing of the rotor assembly following overhaul of the gas circulator at BE's offsite engineering facility. There was no QA process for material control and because BE had spare gas circulators and they could be overhauled between outages and put back into service on any of the fleets reactor sites they had no idea what was where, hence the fleetwide shutdowns. Now on to the stich up for us tax payers. Under UK.GOV ownership each reactor site was required to set aside a percentage of income from generating into a decommissioning fund, and they did, vast sums of real money were put away for the end of life plans, when EDF first made an approach they walked away because UK.GOV said they couldn't have the end of life funds as part of the deal, I assumed wrongly that this had been resolved when EDF eventually got the deal through. When I found out that they didn't get the end of life funds I again wrongly assumed that they would follow the European model, that is to carry out a de-fuel and post operational clean out using funds from their 'set aside' then hand it over for final decommissioning to the NDA, but no, they were not required to set aside a single penny for decommissioning and all they will do at final shutdown is de-fuel and exit left. The de-fuel can be done in very short order with only a few alterations to the safety case, so the end of life funds that have been retained by UK.GOV have been eroded by inflation (and no doubt plundered for other .gov pet projects) will be nowhere near what is needed to bring these plant's to a long term safe and secure state, we the tax payer, the very same that paid to build the plants will have to pay and pay over and over again to take these plant's back, whilst EDF have completely creamed the profits, yet another UK.GOV kick in the teeth for us all. As for Radwise having their framework contract extended by EDF, there were no surprises there, it was just a great way to avoid re-tendering and the inevitable costs increases, MAGNOX (another branch of UK.GOV) did exactly the same. I'll end by sharing with you what a recently retired resource manger for one of the big 3 in Rad Protection said to me when I told him I'd had enough and was off, he said "I've had concerns for the past 15 years that the rates for Rad Monitors hasn't realistically moved upwards, and there has been a concerted effort from all of the ""players"" that it should stay that way, and when compared to the pay rates in every other country that have nuclear plants the UK players have been getting the contract expertise very very much on the cheap" I think the NDA, a division of UK.GOV are in for a rude awakening, and I hope it bites them squarely in the ARRSSE. Nem.........

I've got the same trailer as @Kingster and the official BJ rack (snigger) - I thought the same thing so I redrilled the mounting holes to push the rack as close toward the trailer centre as I could. In practice, I was restricted by Lionels windscreen but if was Westie only it could have gone back a touch further.

As the old saying goes "money is the root of all evil" and one day it will destroy mankind. Period.

Off an excellent album. Re-release on white vinyl arrived last week - brill

There’s one on FB market place at the mo in Colchester for £250 but it might be a bit of a trek for you unless you can arrange a wscc courier.

great track stuart not sure why i like this one they did, but liked it then and still do.

We generally do a “tour” every year from the north east usually up to the highlands but I have also organised an Alps trip before. The Highlands tours are organised by a local mate (not a WSCC member) who is a Dax owner and we tend to get a mix of “sevens” as well as Elises, VX220’s and even the odd beemer M1 - so we are not “cliquey” 😁 There used to be a “tour seven” group my mate belonged to and they usually stayed in top notch hotels and even had a dedicated support vehicle that the group owned!

Looks lovely! What an awesome way to get to know your new Westfield.

And several big “Coast to Coasts” before that.

2008 saw the WSCC long way north road trip, my first club run with my first westy, was a great weekend 😎

I sit corrected! You've attempted an open wscc trip, only to be scuppered by covid. 👍👍👍👍 Hopefully successful next year.

Only 22 cars so fill yer boots and pretty much empty. They were happy to wave you out in pairs so @Andy - a15cro and I managed a few decent cat n mouse sessions which were great fun!

NMNC22 next year!

The blipper wasn’t working so we were just getting by!

Great news @JordanCar looks great. I'm sure you'll have better weather and quieter roads to enjoy before we do!

Not a problem, you can certainly see you was getting quicker it takes some getting used of doesn’t it? Shame to GoPro died.

Thanks @Andy (Sycho) for letting me have a go in your phenomenal machine. After the go pro died i got really good, honest.

Drive home from the IVA the other day. Didn’t care about the wet roads 😎

Realising that fitting a Raceline sump with the engine and gearbox in place is not as easy as I thought!!!

Cleaning the car after I got caught out in a monsoon yesterday.

Visited my 89 year old dad to show him my car. He couldn’t get in as it was too low.

Welcome from bonny 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 and good luck with your search...

Welcome, good luck with the search! Youve come to the best place for help and advice 👍

Welcome. Nothing to do with me but there's part finished megabusa kit on ebay which maybe of interest? Happy hunting.

Welcome and happy hunting

Welcome and hope you find the car you want.

Welcome. I'm sure once you've had a good look around our great club, you'll see the benefits of membership. You'll get great advise on purchases and restoration from the members. Once you've signed up, you'll be able to place a Wanted advert indicating price range etc.

Lyn Geiriontdd today in the showers after a nice run up Ogwen Valley.

Well new engine sort of in and lined up. Going to be a busy winter.

A great autumnal run out today around 150 ish miles . The roads were a bit damp and skittery in places but it didn’t rain of snow lol Headed out over the Cabrach and took the old military road over to Cairn o Mount then down to Rumblin’ Bridge cafe where a lovely lunch was had , chatting to them there is 2 car parks so a group is more than welcome (phone ahead if it’s a large group) Suitably fed n watered I was in a quandary as to which way to go , but a couple of bikers pulled in and said the low cloud was gone from the summit so baa as ck tracked oer the Cairn then along Glen Tanner stopping at Ballater for fuel before coming home via Glen Sheil, Corgarf, the Lecht and up the Glen

Dads Westy sporting its new Mini lites

I have 2 boys who love the Westfield. So I have to taken them both out. That's 2 good drives for me!