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Time to put a rumour to bed (probably started by @Scott Young (Captain Colonial) - Club Secretary 😉) I'm not a saggy, old cloth cat, baggy, and a bit loose at the seams! I've never named any of my cars and I didn't name this one! Someone else did....read on........ on the 6th Nov 2014, I visited Westfield Sports Cars for the first time and placed an order for a Mega S2000 full kit with White bodywork (having tested and bough a S2000 engine and gearbox that morning). I've had previous white cars: As I started my build, I soon learned that I'd need to fit indicator pods on my nose cone to meet IVA requirement. Post IVA I planned to move the indicators to under the headlamps. I therefore didn't want to drill holes in my nice new white nose cone to have to fill them later on. @Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Chairman kindly offered to lend my his spare nose cone which already had holes for the pods. It was bright yellow and was slightly damaged. Dave suggested it would need repairing and painting for IVA, so I asked if he wanted it painted the same colour as it was, the same colour as his blue S2000 or white. Dave said, do whatever I want or even do something daft! A quick google and a found a colour I liked. As the father of two girls, it was a colour I was comfortable with. A quick photoshop mock up and I was happy: Dave's nose was quickly repaired and painted for 'mates rates' by a friend in a body shop. On the 17th March 2016, I was 'followed' by this car, all the way to my IVA Test As I was unloading, the Examiner came across to say hello and said that he likes Westfield's and they are usually well built for IVA, though he had to ask 'Why have you painted your nose pink?" My reply "So you won't want it in your test bay for long, and you won't want it back!' This set the tone for an enjoyable morning and I walked out with a pass. Shortly after I got home, the indicator pods 'fell off' and the nose cone holes were filled in. It wasn't quite time for my pink phase to end. My unique car had gained plenty of WSCC fans (Especially @CosKev) during my build and they needed to see it in the flesh. Also a certain 'kit car show' was close by: Also a run out to my local Cheshire and North Staffs WSCC Meet, which was sharing the pub with the Ferrari owners club: If you zoom in, you'll spy an 'ouch' sticker over my attempt to fill/paint the holes. Here's it next to @lloydox (builder) @fildyke(current owner) lovely S2000, for my Geometry set-up. On the 19th June 2016 (Father's Day)- I was attending a local transport festival. I put my full size front number plate on( @marcusb honestly, officer!) , and less than 3 miles from home, as soon as my speed went passed 30mph, it fell off and got driven over! It's been in the boot since! During my build, after the nose colour was decided, I'd noticed that my local bus company had taken design inspiration from me and stickered up their fleet! So as it was Father's Day, I though I best visit my local bus depot for a 'Father and Son' Selfie: After IVA I also fitted one of @Kit Car Electronics excellent Free Wheel kits. In the press of a button the end of pink...........or is it.............. My car ran like this from 21st June 2016 until July 2017 and the pink nose went back to @Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Chairman as a spare. Every time the garage door was rolled up, I did miss the pink nose. Fate was about to play it's hand. @Greenstreak-Andy D invited @Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Chairman and I to his 50th Birthday celebration at the 2017 Le Mans 24H, which was to be our first Euroblat. The trip was excellent and after the race, rather than rush back home we had a few more additional days bimbling round northern France. On one of these days I had an 'Oh la, la ' moment after a long hot, tiring day with a dry stone wall on our hotel carpark, whilst reversing, I failed to note how close my rear driver's side wing was to the abutment on the wall. Which resulted in: It didn't ruin the great trip, but wasn't going to stop like that. My wife, kindly suggested it wouldn't rust and could stay like that! I'd done similar but less significant damage to the passenger side arch on my own driveway, when reversing without mirrors during my build and had badly bodged it with gelcoat. So both wings needed to be repaired properly. Time for some colour & with some help from Photoshop, I was stuck between these two colours: @Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Chairman kindly agreed to sell me the pink nose, the rear wings were removed and all items went back to my friend to be repaired and painted. I 'really' enjoyed removing the silicon sealant used to hold the stone guards on with. The first meet with my new colour scheme was the excellent Gold Cup at Oulton Park in Aug 2017 You'll notice the 'ouch' stickers still on the nose cone, my friend in the Body Shop had a holiday to go on, and the nose had to wait a while longer. In Sep 2017, I attended a Peak District Meet at Tatton Airfield, and during lunch the discussion turned to a name for my car. @Geoffrey Carter (Buttercup) was mentioned and I stupidly suggested 'Primrose' in jest (I was quickly corrected by the green fingered ones amongst us that they are yellow too ). @Julie Hall - WSCC AO Representative blurted out 'Bagpuss' in between chomps of cake and the name has stuck ever since. She shortly after gifted my bonnet ornament of the stuffed toy and most in the club started to refer to me as Bagpuss too. So I've not fought it! I've been called much worse 😉

Count me in as well !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'll drop @Big Andya note nearer the time (when weather has been confirmed) so that we can meet up just this side of the 40p bridge to escape from Lincolnshire in convoy.

The colour scheme is what really makes it 'unique' which is something I've often heard said about the driver. 😊

I did not start or promote that rumour. However, I have done nothing to dispel it, either. For the record, to the best of my knowledge, you are not saggy, old (in the conventional sense, but perhaps in cat years), baggy or loose at the seams. I would say that you are playing ice hockey with a warped puck, but that you’re much liked by all despite your best efforts. Finally, your well-flashed p***y is a disgrace. It’s filthy and needs a good wash at 30c. You should be ashamed.

Damn that wall! I notice you avoided it after that! There is evidence to the contrary!

Try one of these, doesn't fly off and you get free fuel 😂

Excellent reading, I didn't know that you also had owned a MR2, weirdly I didn't like driving ours and Glen mostly drove it. Bagpuss Pink is by far just the very best colour for a Westfield, looks great on the Peak District photo's and makes my life easy when I am looking for the last car in the convoy, the pink nose really stands out 😻😻😻

@AndrewBClarke @aeg Ladies, please focus, don't worry about the 40p Lincoln Tax, we need to come up with a plan, the cake meister @Andy Westwood is joining us and he will attempt to eat all the puddings😄, he must be stopped!

Pink is the new cool! Wouldn’t be the same without a pink nose, and 🫤 wings too!

Bagpuss never fails to pull in the admirers:

Mmmm. And 40p to keep you out @aeg. I’ll also have a word with them about that!!

I have adjusted the standard Westfield baseball cap to have an under the chin cord with a tightening toggle. When driving doorless and it works loose, I simply open my mouth and the cord pulls the cap back on!! Patient applied for 😀😀. Next thing I’ll need is a fly mesh for the times my mouth is open.

CANCELLED DUE TO WET WEATHER FORECAST Meet at McDonalds, Bakewell Road, Matlock, DE4 3AU, 10am for a scoot around the Peak District in search of cake/Andy's big feet/hidden steering wheels😃 and other miscellaneous items. Anyone else avoiding the jubilee and wishing to join us?

Have a great day @Andy Banks , @Charles King , @James Charteris & @Rhett Turner - Black Country AO 🍺🍺🍺🍺🎂🎂🎂🎂

Good point and well observed Mr Chairman. We seem to be going to pubs a lot as the cafes are smaller and can't cope with all these people or have car parks big enough for all these cars. Pubs just don't do the cake thing very well so perhaps we can engineer a cake stop into our days a bit more🍰

It's funny though, that trip, seeing a all-white car in the convoy just wasn't the same! Looked so much better, after normal service had been resumed, and it had it's face, again.

@AndrewBClarkethey let you out for 40p !!!!!! I’m going to have to have a word about that 🤔

LOL

I was thinking more along the lines of asking for two pounds of mince beef and 250 grams of cheese at the butchers!!

When we bought the first Apache helicopters from the US, UK required Rolls Royce engines to be fitted to US airframe - issue is US in inches and UK in mm - hence aircraft was delivered with 'fuzzy metric' i.e. distance is 101.6mm or in US terms 4" made for interesting reading of the tech pubs!

Didn’t that get NASA into trouble a few years back? https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-oct-01-mn-17288-story.html

Aluminium cables were only layed in the late seventies and early eighties due to cost of copper rocketing in price. About 15% of the total network is aluminium and no plans to replace unless the whole length of the cable deteriorates into a pile of dust.

Count me in please

Hopefully!

Yes I was trying something else out but I've got some more vid from Sunday which hopefully I can get edited I've also got you some chocolate rolls Julie Hall

Yes. The base station will connect to the hub they send you, then the 4 cordless phones will talk to the hub the same way they do now.

That's a bargain!

If W3FLD “Lairy Canary” is on here I have some pictures and video from the start of the London to Brighton at Brooklands this morning that I can send you.

Defo I'm still a salad dodger. Well some may say 'it never rains', I've done some 'private investigations' and have possibly found a place on 'Telegraph Road' that may be willing to take them for 'Love Over Gold', however you're likely to catch an 'Industrial Disease'

You could try a diet 😘 less cake more salad !!! You can have Ian Kinders

Painting... so another No from me