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Following Bagpuss’s great thread I thought I’d post up some of our travels too. Also shared on instagram @yellowsuperseven Iam joining the southern kit car club guys for my first euro trip in the newly built Westfield. We are Setting off for the euro tunnel at Folkestone tomorrow afternoon. There are 8 of us in 8 sevens. Literally counting down the hours now, cannot wait to get going

Just a big thanks to Paul at mofast as home today to find one of his zk diffusers had arrived, absolutely top notch and great quality and service . just to get it fitted now 😃

July meeting is this Thursday 7th at the Clock Shardlow, I would encourage you to come along as there is important news of developments concerning the future of the area! 7pm onwards.

Not at all. Happy to share planning, details, costs, tips etc

Morale is starting to dip as we’re heading home 😱 great meal

Isn’t this a conflict of interest?

circa 280km covered today. Mixture of dual carriageway, slower villages and empty country roads. Even found some ‘rude’ sun flowers. At our 3rd and final hotel in France. Ordered 4 large cold beers on arrival (what else is there🥱). They managed two pints before the barrel ran dry and the two members of staff couldn’t change it, so two of us got small Bottles of Europop. 1hr drive in the morning should have us at the first war museum.

We were snapped travelling through Matlock Bath @BillyPee and Bill Senior @Big Andy and Debs @AndrewBClarkeand Pete Us

Another hotel after 350km’s

Thanks but we’ve visited without permits 😃

Got a knock at the door this morning, next door's car would not start, the Westy was in the drive anyway as I was going out, so jump started this Kia Sportage with the Westy - yay. Sorry no pics of the actual jump leads over the fence as (erm) I had to get creative in making them longer that quite honestly I would not show on here ( involved long steel rods that's all I will say 🤣)

Hi everyone looking to buy my first westfield and I've recently put a deposite down on a fw duratec from toybox and will be heading up there soon to view the car once they have finished tinkering with it. Has anyone on here experienced buying a car from them and can share there experience with me. Also how many on here are from the South east. Im near Ashford and don't see many westfield about. Come to think of it I don't really see any kit cars in general

Excellent. There will be highs and lows but you’ll have an amazing experience , you’ll want to repeat👍🏼

Funny you should say that , look what I brought home... Had them on all afternoon, and very happy with them , although driving the car has reminded me of the spacer I fitted to the clutch pedal - since the deck shoes I have been using for over a decade had much thinner soles , combined with my scitatica which when it was at its worst prevented me using the car (until the spacer was fitted). The Lonsdales are a thicker sole and now causes my left knee to hit the wheel when driving, so bizarre such a small difference in sole thickness changes the driving position so much. I made a start on removing that spacer so hoping all will be back to normal. Thank you all for the input and great advise folks 👍👍

1 , black grp, new £175 2, carbon fibre probably half the weight of the fibreglass one but still strong enough not to flex £225

Have fun and enjoy it, it’s a fantastic experience , look forward to the updates / post trip report

@Richard (OldStager) I wear my Lonsdales every day to work and out and get at least two years out of them. When they get kicked in, they become my garage pair and I get a new 'out' pair. I've been doing that for the last 12-13 years with them. You can get either traditional leather ones or suede, but I prefer the former as they'll take a polish and last a bit longer. For under £30, there's little to fault with them.

Like I say, an hour at Sports Direct will pay dividends. And to be fair their pricing isn't massively out of the way so it could be a very productive use of your time. I would not go to Demon Tweeks for this particular requirement...

Actually, fair point about trying out the sizing. In my recent experience of a morning at Sports Direct trying on what they had in stock, Reeboks are pretty good. I have been a size 10 for decades and a 10 is what I would usually buy. But in these days of cheap manufacturing and, dare I say it, questionable quality control at the point of manufacture... Skechers, to me at least, I am between a 9.5 and a 10 depending on shoe type. I think I tried a set of Lonsdale Camdens on a while back and seem to recall I was a 10.5 in those and the same for a pair of Adidas I have for court sports. My Sparco race boots are a 10 and still fit, but they are not comfortable to walk in even though walking round a paddock isn't exactly long distance, I'd change out of them.

Oh another road trip, super. Drive safe and post when you can. All the best 👍

What a great way to baptise the new car! Have a top time and post loads of pictures please.

Welcome David, To echo Rob's comments, yes you pay more than a private sale but you also get follow up service too. Andrew and Dale are a great team with over 1300 Westfield sales so know what is a good base car which they then do their Toybox thing to. I had a couple of niggles that showed up 3-6 months after I bought the car, all sorted by phone for the technical or me buying local and refunded immediately. Since then I have often called Andrew or Dale up to ask technical advice and or supplier info, super guys. Happy smiles per mile

Have a great trip, very jealous! I follow you on Instagram already, looking forward to the photos!

Hi I missed your post. Also in Kent. Look forward to meeting up in the cars

Look forward to hearing about fitting and seeing some pics

Well done 👍, I did wonder when I found that link this morning, how are they going to police that?, can't have someone there 24/7 surely...

A couple of the ex employees of westfield sports cars have setup selling parts on ebay This could maybe help people looking for certain parts Like screen pillars They are starting small and are hoping it will grow and they will be able to offer alot more parts. https://ebay.co.uk/usr/adbautoparts5

Tyres and brakes holding up well👏 Though wheels need a good clean 😱

Hi guys. An update on the Omex ECU/loom kit. Omex have come back to me via email with information. Overnight they put the price of the ECU up 20% and the loom up 25%. So with the extra connections and sensors required it comes to a total of £1251 Inc vat plus postage. I'm not going to comment on that considering we had already paid Westfield for it. But on the good side Liam at Tornado Systems has been very helpful and is trying to negotiate a better deal on it as they are an Omex dealer and were surprised at the price hike. Again, I will keep you posted. M.

To those that were wondering, 450km is 280 miles in old money Love from a 1971 year of decimalisation baby

The car looks great by the way, I'm a sucker for the carbon shiny bits!

Stelvio today, just awesome!

Im not going to say correlation = causation, but that’s not a great way to get a company a good reputation.

Will be away for this one, and probably the next.