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Rather unkindly, I feel, a friend of mine posted on Facebook yesterday. "This is the first Westfield I’ve seen with a beacon….. oh sorry it’s Simon's hat! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣" I had taken the Eleven to a classic car meet at Hook Norton Brewery. It was very frosty first thing, so I was cosy in my two layer race suit and full face helmet on the way up. The lanes near Hook Norton were very icy (I did pass the obligatory upside down Nissan van in one ditch). It was a great morning meet in really attractive surroundings of the Hook Norton Brewery and the bacon sandwiches provided in the cafe were the best ever! Around 40 cars from the 1920s to the 2010s and plenty of great chats in increasingly warming sunshine. One of the organisers, Rob Wrigley, took the photo as I was leaving and had reverted to my usual Saturn Yellow hat. Guess what I am going to be washing and cleaning today?

It’s all about colour coordination!

Here’s mine with new ProRace 15” x 7J rims and R888Rs, bought from Westfield. Got them delivered and on before Christmas. Had been on 16” x 7J from when built. Westfield supplied fitted 205 tyres all round (as per my request), but once I had them I decided to go down to 195 at the front as the 205 width is something like 214 in reality! The rears really fill the arches well. Now I’ve a nice set of 205s for when I rip through the rears and a friendly local tyre dealer who is more than happy to fit them! A trip to @Siltech Racingplanned for Spring upgrades to: +35 wide track, micro-adjustable rear suspension, shocks & springs and ARBs to replace all the original kit (from 2003/4 build). Dennis has been great throughout the whole process and I’m looking forward to meeting him and Andy when I go to get the work done! Cheers P

Tell the mrs how much I've spent on the westy 💣

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Just a thought, If it's not going to be a quick fix, would it be worth sending out a membership wide email with maybe a quick down and dirty guide on resizing? I guess a lot of people don't visit this corner of the boardroom as still seems to be a fair few people struggling to post pics and the same explanations having to be given.

Will that work on the missis as well? 😄

Try “hey Siri, navigate to the Bodega in Newcastle upon Tyne” 😁

Google maps or waze.

@Simon Marks - North Oxfordshire AO it doesn’t matter how daft we look, we’re warm and out having fun. forgetting about the hat, the car looks brilliant

We were told in the 1970's that we had 30 years of oil left. Current thinking is that the world won't run out of oil any time soon, and certainly not in our lifetimes. https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/is-the-world-running-out-of-oil Electric power, as it is right now (hybrids or mains plug in cars with battery storage for the electric power) will die long before oil runs out. Hydrogen is where it will be.

Okay so even by my standards today was chilly but an epic day out, the roads were mostly fine ish, some had snow and ice and on the way home the lumsden / cabrach road had snow higher than the westy at the sides !! So as I was on my own I went out over the Lecht, corgarf and over to Ballater and to Aboyne then it was the old military road over the Cairn o mount to the the Clatterin Brig cafe for lunch. Suitably warmed and fed it was back over the hill toward Aboyne , Alford and home over the Cabrach Absolutely brilliant to be out and a cracking finale to the holidays

Westfield Sports Car Club. Class of 2021 Many great pictures are posted to the "Recent Snap Of Your Westfield" section on the WSCC forum. Sit back enjoy REVISITING some of those wonderful images of 2021. Looking forward to 2022

Essentially I'm after a cockpit cover that will protect the interior whilst the car is garaged, whilst allowing me to access the engine and gaze fondly at the rest of it (sad, I know) 😀. I have an RAC roll bar in place, so it'll need to accommodate that. I was hoping to buy a Walker St Clair Cockpit Cover, but I understand these are no longer being made now. Anyone have anything suitable that they are looking to get rid of?

Alex wants a car that is more reliable than his Tiger was 😁

Never had the opportunity to find out. I'm fairly practical though so maybe I could give it a go as a last resort. I have a three year old who'll probably want Halloween costumes etc in the future, so probably a useful skill to have. 😀

+1 for Here. They do OEM satnav maps - certainly BMW

Yup, both excellent.

Obvious questions are usually a good place to start 😄. I do have a basic soft top (no side screens). My garage is dry enough, but the soft top wouldn't keep the dust etc out. It's also a bit of a pain to fit. I don't really want to invest in full weather gear because, to be honest, I'll never really use it. I think I'd get more use from the cockpit cover, since I'd use this when the car is parked up after/during a drive. But by all means let me know if you think I'm barking up the wrong tree. 😀

i disabled siri, it kept talking to me without reason, maybe it thinks i'm lonely 🤣

To be honest, Google Maps or the Apple Maps apps work perfectly well.

HERE WeGo is free and good

Worse still, our favourite car based build programs count as Reality TV!

🤣🤣🤣 Hopefully I'll get mine done soon and you need never fear such comments again!

Read 'On the Beach' the novel by Nevil Shute. Australia is one of the last countries to be destroyed by creeping nuclear fallout and they use the last few gallons of petrol to have a last motor race. Much fornication too, no doubt, but those were more discreet times and it wasn't mentioned. The film isn't bad either.

Have a great day @TableLeg & @Terry Everall - WSCC Competition Secretary 🎂🎂🍺🍺

b*****r, does that mean i am hip and cool then...

The Club forum counts as social media...

Nah, still another four months at least to go on the overland camper build, but the Westy did break out of the cover a couple of times - it appears 3-4 other times in the video!

Only on All Inclusive Holidays for the breakfast buffet.

You mean you don't? 😳 😂

Glad you qualified that👍

Hi Andy, if your profile and email address are correct your all good to go…. Enjoy the mad house…..

A wee taster from today, just home and away to get sorted out, more in a wee bit

I dont want it @DMc, I've got one and its the best braking upgrade I've done. I would like the part number for that spare seal kit though, could come in handy in the future.

Great to see some familiar names are still here. After 12 years on axle stands & 3 kids I've finally made a start on the rebuild. It's a Turbo XE if I can remember how it all goes back together.

I was once asked to tell the truth in front of some people. I did and it resulted in me getting banned from every Greggs bakers in the UK. The storey is not for here though.