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My new-to-me SE seconds before the slicks came off and the Proxes went on. Needed something to help me keep my sanity while my Mini comes together s-l-o-w-l-y 😆

Further timing update- @CherryTreeFW 7:50 am: meet Knutsford services fuel & loo 8:00 am: leave Knutsford 8:15-8:20 am pass Sandbach service 8.30-8:45 am: brief stop at Stafford services- to plan photoshoot and swap Convoy Leaders 8:30-8:35am formation photo/video shoot opportunity across all 4 lanes, straight after Stafford Services by the insta 360 Triplets @Greenstreak-Andy D @Si.Dalziel & @Ian Kinder (Bagpuss) - Joint Peak District AO 9:29 am: formation drive across all lanes ready for photoshoot. 9.30 am: Drive past Hilton park services / those joining from Hilton need to keep an eye of the live location of the convoy via Whatsapp to aid joining 9:31am: Aerial photoshoot immediately after Hilton by our VIP photographer @Rednop1 9:50ish collect Rob and his rabble @RobH72 10.00 am: Arrive Stoneleigh all times are approx M6 is slow and full of roadworks

Last Wednesday Glen and I viewed classic cars before an auction at the Buxton Pavillion. There next auctions are on Weds 27th July and Weds 30th Nov. Most of the cars can be viewed for free outside the auction and for £10 two people receive a catalogue and access to the cars inside the Pavillion. The auctions start at 1pm, the best bit is the interesting folks that you get to chat with beforehand and over lunch in the Pavillion cafe. Here is what we saw, it's like a car show only with real prices attached. VX sold for £11812 Fiat sold for £6975 911 sold for £29083 Mitsy sold for £8438 MX5 sold for £2475 Mini sold for £9675 Bug sold for £16875 MG sold for £7650 MG TD sold for £14250 TR6 sold for £16312 Hope you find this interesting and hope to see you at the next auction!

Hello WSCC people! I joined the club moments ago and wanted to say hello. I'm Steve from Mildenhall in Suffolk. I had an ex-track day Avon Tiger until last year, and wanted to replace it with a quick Westfield. I'm also building a Spaceframe 'Maguire' Mini tribute to Peter Baldwin's 80's racer. I’ve just taken ownership of the ex-John Louden / Peter O’Connor Hillclimb and Sprint Westfield SE. It's a well known car; the car held lots of records and won many championships in Sprints and Hillclimb events. I’m putting it back on the road, and yesterday it passed the MOT. So I refitted the lights, took off the slicks, and fitted some 888Rs. The sequential box is tricky to use - and with 220hp and less than 500kg, this car is ridiculously quick! I hope to see you out and about. Cheers

Volunteers bbq.

no road works on the M6 this morning 👍

Saturday 7th May - - Run Out The plan is to meet at 9.30, Saturday 7th in Stirling at Milton Motors, Whitehouse Road FK7 7SP. (This is a brand new garage so may not show up on Google Maps/Earth). There will be tea and biscuits at that time and I would like to set off at 10.30. There is a Shell filling station on Kerse Road, FK7 7SP; only about 300m from the start point. We will have a short stop in Aberfoyle to give any stragglers time to catch up. Then we will head over The Duke's Pass and northwards ...... stopping for lunch in St Fillans. The run will end back in Stirling at a new filling station, post code FK8 1AF, just off the M9 motorway. I hope the weather will be kind to us as I am looking forward to meeting some like minded souls. I built my Westfield over the lockdown and it was a real lifesaver for me! I have only done 3,000 miles so am always keen to get out on the smaller roads. John Coyle and Anne Borland

With the clutch fitted I could finally move on to fitting the engine. Despite the sales brochure for the car saying that it had been designed so the engine and box could be fitted as a single unit my trial build last year showed that this definitely was not the case, not least because the clutch fork needs to locate one side of a chassis rail whist the slave cylinder and the casting it mounts to on the gearbox is the other side of the rail. I forgot to take a photo of this so I’ll try and remember tomorrow. Not wanting to damage the paintwork the chassis was liberally wrapped in corrugated card and the the gearbox could then be slotted in to position. This is the originally gearbox from the car and this is the first time since 1972 that it’s been in the car as I used a scrap box for the trial build. The big job came next of lifting the engine in, this needed to be stripped of all the ancillaries to stand any chance of squeezing into the engine bay. The mounting flange on the engine for the box is actually larger than the aperture in the chassis so to lift it in the engine has to be orientated vertically with the crank pulley pointing up and then once through it needs to be laid down horizontally. Once in the engine mounts, water pump and starter motor could then be fitted before finally bolting it up to the gearbox. This whole process took the best part of two hours to get the engine and box in. At this stage one job I needed to do was make a nylon bush to support the gearbox. The original got destroyed trying to get it out when the chassis was stripped for Powdercoating and I’d not made this before as I needed everything assembled in the chassis to work out its length.

Finally some progress and a long overdue update. After an extended wait as my engine builder was busy preparing for the start of the racing season the engine is finally back together again. first job is fitting the new clutch. As the engine came with a flywheel machined for an F3 clutch when i bought it, I decided it would be a sensible upgrade for the standard imp clutch that the car originally ran as these are a known week point. I didn’t however factor quite how expensive this upgrade would be! The AP clutch also meant that I’d need a custom made clutch release bearing to suit and some minor mods to the gearbox to fit a spring to support the bearing and stop it rubbing on the unit shaft.

Have a great day @Andy_R , @Insuranceman & @Glynn Walters 🎂🎂🎂🍺🍺🍺

Happy Birthday guys, hope you’ve been having a great one!

BBQ time 🍔🌭😀

Happy birthday, hope you have had a lovely day Love from Glen and Julie xxxx

From Propoganda to Propellorheads:

Must have been going some pace to have fetched the front clip off the Mini and impaled it on the wall.

Propaganda of a different era

Welcome and a great car, nice to hear ex-comp cars being returned to the road, hope you have fun this summer 👍

Cheers mate. We should get together and compare notes at some point!

I was in both of these shoots, everything went to plan,😃😃 coming down as a passenger first time in 28 years Steve

Just renewed again with A plan. Thanks Jennifer. Decent premium and great claims handling experience. They filled the gaps the insurer left.😀