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But once I saw the damage I wish I had resisted and left her in the garage.

Couldn't resist the sunshine 😀

Lovely lunch time drive from Deal, to Maidstone the scenic route. Found a nice little lunch stop. Wood fired pizza 🍕 mmmmm

Sunday morning I met some mates in the cars and it was very cold and frosty..... icy roads, no traction control, semi slick tyres, plus a driver with all the ambition of Max Verstappen but with fewer skills than Nikita Mazepin.... you can guess what happens next, a lovely half spin and tank slapper with the resulting brown trousers 😂. Luckily it was all at low speed and no damage was done apart from a bruised ego! Sunday afternoon my lovely wife asked "how was your meet".... naively I decided to laughingly regale her with my near death experience, waxing lyrical about the whole incident.... I launched into the full bloke thing for 10 minutes, all arm gestures of full opposite lock, hands out front waving my A*** enthusiastically about to demonstrate the tank slapper etc... Let just say the reception from SWMBO was icier than the road had spun on, she's still not talking to me 😂😂😂

Meet at Quackers DE45 1QA at 10am for breakfast and drinks before setting of on a wiz around the Peak District. Weather is forecast dry so who is joining us?

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

The long dark winter's nights must fly by in Rush Motorsport Towers 😀

if you ever did want to get into tinkering, a westfield is a good place to start. I did the basics before but since buying a one you can have a go. Ive refurbed suspension put it all back on, redone all the fuel lines, oil changes, done the brakes blah blah blah. It does not matter if you get stuck cause you ask a really obvious question on here and they answer it. And when you get p******** off you can leave it for a couple of days and go back to it. Then when you realise what took you 2 days you could do again in about 20 minutes something else catches your eye and the cycle starts again. oh and they go alright too 😁 good luck with the search

Probably not the wrong audience, probably worth telling. I did have a career in explosives, I was in the Royal Engineers, we built things, we blew things up, many tales of bridges that fell into rivers, the CO's dog almost being blown up, and inappropriate things to do with PE-4 (Plastic Explosive) During the big NATO exercises in Germany, our job was to add a bit of battle reality, setting off small charges in safe places, trees and trenches mainly. Problem was, after the exercise, when everyone else went home, we were left with days of work disposing of unused explosives. In theory, we would go to an artillery range and set up dozens of small charges spaced out in time, in reality, well, we wanted to go home too. One time we thought we would be clever and packed 80Kg of PE-4 into a near-intact battle tank on an artillery range, we went back a full 500 metres and set it off. Not being able to resist a peek over the top, what we saw next...the turret of the tank, 5 tons or so of it, bouncing slowly towards us in the manner of a Barnes Wallace invention, shrapnel whizzing past our ears.

I was just telling my wife a cracking dote about when I was in Australia a year or two before I met her, and I was doing a trip down the great ocean road solo. I’d tried to hire a ute but ended up with a Holden Commodore with a V8, so naturally, I stopped on the GOR and did the most stupendous rolling burn out you could ever imagine, It was fantastic. She wasn’t impressed by my story.

Hi Have been lurking for a while, but my Westfield arrived today. It's a 1998 SEIW that's had one owner from original build to now. I'm based near Alton in Hampshire, hope to see a few of you around when the weather brightens up. I'll be bunging a load of fairly basic questions up in tech talk sometime over the next few days... have learnt a lot already from trawling these threads!!

Should be able to.

I may join you for breakfast, I'll confirm nearer the time👍

lots of choice of which photo to post of emergency roadside repairs of Alex's broken Tiger 😀

could always join us next Wednesday Paul.

Arrived today, thanks!

here's some pictures of the turbo and manifold mounted on an old cylinder head

We'll need to ask you to repeat then, we we're filming!

Thanks Wayne and Jim for your replies 👍 I know both your circumstances and didn’t expect you. Tonights meeting is canceled due to a lack of interest, I don’t want to sit in a pub on my own nursing a pint of shandy🍺 and hoping someone may turn up. I’ll stay at home sat on the couch in my pyjamas with my feet up, a glass of wine in my hand and watch some telly. maybe see you next month 🤔

Please tell me it was videod? The spin, not the story telling to SWMBO.

May I say how saddened I am by the passing of this true gent.I obtained my 11 chassis 109 in Feb 1986 and it still gives me enormous pleasure on the occasional dry day. What i recall most was the pleasure of dealing with a man of immense integrity who was possibly the only one who treated his customers with absolute concern and consideration in a field where everyone else sold kits for what they could get for them whilst Chris sold them for what they were worth. What a difference. The help I was given by Chris will be remembered always . To Eileen Holly ,all the family and all those who were lucky enough to have known this true gentleman my sincerest condolences Alvin Cohen Gerrards Cross Bucks

It’s all about colour coordination!

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?

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