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Many of you will know by now that Rob Hunter will be taking over as Derby and Notts AO. I will assist for a while until we have sorted whys and wherefors of the new era. Rob came to the meeting on Thursday and it was probably the best one we have had for a long time, loads of Westfields on the car park and lots of new members, lots of Westfield chat and banter. I would like to thank all of you that have help and assisted me over the last 20+ years. I am sure the area will go from strength to strength. best regards Garry Bunn

End of day 4 What an amazing day of driving.very early start, on the road by 6am. Italy and into Switzerland and the roads were quiet at that time in the morning so we’ll worth getting up for. 270 miles of mostly mountain passes. Including - Furka, Grimsel, Sustan, Nufenen, St. Bernard and about a dozen other passes too. The Furka being my favourite of the day. The weathers still hot 🥵 but fantastic and not complaining! We have pitched up at a lovely little campsite in Anderman. Great facilities for cars and camping. hopefully the car with the charging issues will catch up with us tomorrow when the garages open (typical Sunday today). Just the five of us today.

I was in good company today. Autobahnscotland.co.uk had a meet in Queensferry so popped along to do a nosey.

So finally des got married to debs they are well known around the yorkshire westy club scene And think debs well known all ove. really well lets say no more Oh swingeres club Monday at the lakes I was there and only a small private party of around x18 Fantastic day and night Mrs walker got wreked on free wine I did sum drone footage for a different camera angle I got a suitcase full of beer to support when I got home thanks des There's a link to my utube channel if any one wants to look at the area and then the wedding If ya are sadoes But just to say well dune des Debs as already raided is piggy bank and making plans But a great couple from Hemsworth were I live as well in w yorks

What a beautiful day for a run in the Peak District! With @Julie Hall - WSCC AO Representative away we had to make our own entertainment.... I'd just like to say, its so much easier when someone else is planning the day! 😂 I picked up new member Steve @SBozzy on the way (a very brave man being my passenger for the day!) before meeting Ash, Tony and Alex at the services. We were also pleased to see Ian arrive (a friend and potential new member who owns a bike engined MK Indy). We set off, up to Wirksworth before cutting cross country on remarkably quiet back roads to Monyash to meet @Lee Bennett and his mate who owns a glorious 200bhp Mk1 Cortina! After a spot of breakfast in the sunshine with liberal helpings of banter, we headed off following Lee hoping to find more quiet roads. After slight miss step when we got split up, we met again on the Via Gellia before a completely clear run down the B5056 (one of my favourite roads!) to the Bentley Brook Inn. Ian, Ash and Tony had a curfew so had to head home, while the rest of us landed in the beer garden for a well deserved cold drink 😎 A fun day out of B Road blasts, meeting new members, encouraging new membership, loads of chatting cars, a bit of banter and plenty of sunburn! 😎 Thanks for coming, and see you all next time 👍

A huge thanks from me @Garry Bunn - Derby & Notts AO for the hard work for the club and area over the years! Also, thanks to you and the Derby Notts members for making me feel so welcome, what a lovely bunch of people! I'm a relative newbie to the club and Westfield ownership (with a paltry 3 years!) but I'll do my very best. Fingers crossed I can fill your huge boots and do you proud 👍

Any sane person reading my 'what's in a name' post should be able to work that out 😉

Not included in explanation: Ian is nuts 🤪

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 😉

We're meeting on Tuesday (12th), 7.30pm, at the Golden Pheasant, from where we'll have a drive across to the Swettenham Arms again. Please note, we'll try and get away a little earlier this time, so if you can't make the Pheasant by, say 7.45pm, meet us at Swettenham directly. Swettenham Arms Pub. Swettenham Lane, Congleton, Cheshire, CW12 2LF

As @Blatmansuggested, its best to go to an actual shop and try them on, as it seems many of these type of shoes are not sized consistantly across the brands. I am so glad I went as I would never usually buy a size 10 shoe.

Lovely stuff, what weather we are having, looks like you all had a brill day. We were cycling in the Yorkshire Dales and 12 MX5's (I counted) passed us which was great and made us think about you guys. Thanks for keeping it going @RobH72 and @Lee Bennett 👍

I've got withdrawal symptoms and seeing these great pics aren't helping!

Well done for stepping up @RobH72and thanks to @Garry Bunn - Derby & Notts AO for such a lengthy and worthy service!

Not to much of a secret but I'm joining russ in the same team for my first race. I'm in the car Russ used at Silverstone so hopefully all good from a mechanical point not with a new heart. Testing on the Friday as well to get use to being around other cars. Let's see what happens.

Congratulations to Des'n'Debs, @Breakable?, from all in Yorkshire. If anyone needs a translation for the above post from @Barnsley John, please let me know

Great weekend all round. Here are three of my favourite photos from sat morning. I didn't take any Friday as was having too much fun on the track to top the weekend off my dad and son even managed to get 20 mins round the go kart track so my 9yr old also have his first experience of driving 😍 Best weekend in ages!

All explained here -

245 miles today we left at 8 this morning and just home at 5.30 Met up with Scott and his loon at corgarf then on to a coffee, bacon roll and raspberry tart at Glenshee , onto Pitlochry and out Tummel bridge to Rannoch station tearoom and met up with Graeme and Bruce . DISASTER the cook was ill and there wasn’t any cake 🥲 Anyway a wee blether and lunch then it was over to Trinafour and up over the moor, hopped onto the A9 to Dalwhinnie , then onto the cafe at Laggan Bridge for coffee and cake 😃 before heading back up speyside home.

Flying the flag on Stelvio!

Apologies if this isn't within the WSCC rules and if so I will remove post. On the 29th July I will be walking 35 km alongside 8 other work colleagues to raise money and awareness for 'Young Lives vs Cancer' after a work colleague (Paul) in 2021 received the devastating news that his Daughter Lily had been diagnosed with a type of brain tumour that had not been seen before which caused the specialists concerns on the best way to treat her. They opted for the fact she is young (14 at the time) and otherwise fit and healthy so they hit her hard with radiotherapy and chemotherapy after the tumour had been surgically removed. Fortunately she seems to be on the mend which is a miracle with what she has been through including being placed in an induced coma during her treatment to lessen the impact as some organs had started to shut down and then receiving therapy to help her speech as this had been impacted also. I feel slightly awkward posting this here along with my donation page link mainly due to the fact I've not met any members face to face for along time and the majority I've never met at all. But I think we can all agree it's a worthwhile charity that I hope myself or anyone else for that matter will never need to use. "Glen Ivey is fundraising for Young Lives vs Cancer" https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/Glen-Ivey Thank you for taking the to time to read this. Kind regards Glen

Thank you @Garry Bunn - Derby & Notts AO for all that you have done over the last 20+ years and a thank you to @RobH72 for listening to me when I say that you will make a great AO. Please pass a thank you on to your wives and family too, while your attention is given to our club and is not on them, it is appreciated. When I return from holiday I will sort the formalities out.

Didn't receive a pm ? Thats a question I don't know the answer to sorry maybe ask in tech talk

Good luck and have fun Simon..and I hope there are not team orders!!

The end of an era! Thanks Garry, you’ve done an amazing job over all that time, huge respect for your efforts. I’m sure in Rob’s capable hands with you to hand over, the area will go from strength to strength! D

Thank you Ian, I see you posted that only this year, looking at the date I wasn't using the forum due to health reasons which is why I missed it. Great story and it all makes sence now. 👍

Beer well received and pretty much all gone. Huge thanks for all your contributions, banter and company.

sorry my hand slipped.

You are bonkers 😂

From our area we have 4 of us booked in for both days and obviously camping 👍

update- looking as good as new!

You’d think we’d have heeded the warnings, by now. (just a warning that Ian’s playing!)

I found the qualifying footage from Silverstone...

Car washed, I’m showered and finally raising a glass to my great ‘playmates’ @Greenstreak-Andy D @Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Chairman & @Stu Faulkner you’ve all been great company and we’ve had an epic trip. Can we do it all again tomorrow ? 🤠

All packed and ready for the alpine passes

Just over 2 weeks to go until the next outing. Again, super busy at work (does anyone want to buy some EV chargers for workplace or fleet?) so not had much time to think about this one. Oulton Park is next up - testing on Friday 22nd and racing on Saturday 23rd. Using a different car this time but same team running it. Its a proven "almost top ten" finisher with the other driver so I can't use that as an excuse. I'm feeling fairly relaxed - I know Oulton pretty well and am usually one of the quicker MX5 drivers on trackdays at least. If I can be <5s a lap off the front runners, I'll call that a win. Island and Druids, which are very fast are the places I tend to make up time vs the trackdayers, so it's going to be pretty interesting / scary as I expect all of the racers to be fast through there. Slight concerns: I've still not done a proper race start so be interesting to see how that pans out. The track is a lot narrower with much much less run off than Silverstone, so I'm not expecting 10 overtakes this time. There might be a WSCC guest driver too....

Apologies, the drone will not be coming along on this event, we are still meeting up and going for breakfast at The Yondermann though, and can go further afterwards for those that are able. @Tricky can you believe it, my facebook memories tell me it is 8 years ago today that we met at the Devonshire Arms, Cracoe, Skipton with the WSCC Yorkshire group on the joint meet with the Caterhams. I remember the A1 was closed on the way home and it took you ages to get back.

I'm happy for the forum to be used by paid up members to publicize a personal good cause, provided it isn't done in a semi-commercial way, so go for it and good luck.

Good luck Glen, what a great cause! I hope Lily makes a full recovery 🙏

This post will show you how to renew your WSCC Membership online. STEP 1: Sign in on the forums This is located in the upper right hand corner of the screen. You cannot renew without being signed in. STEP 2: Click on the Store tab STEP 3: Click on Manage Purchases STEP 4: Check to see if you can Pay Now to renew your membership If your membership renewal is due and the Pay Now option is shown: click on Pay Now - this will take you to the next page where you can pay your renewal fee online. This process is quick and easy. If the Pay Now option is NOT shown: then too much time has passed since your membership expired, and the Membership Secretary will need to reactivate your renewal invoice for you (or a Club Admin will do so if the Membership Secretary is unavailable). You can either start a new thread in this section asking for your renewal invoice to be reactivated, or you can send an email to the Membership Secretary at wsccmembershipsecretary@gmail.com requesting it.

Car is now provisionally sold - new buyer collecting next weekend after I've got the new V5 (I've put my personal plate on retention)

Gutted I’m missing the weekend, in in Gran Canaria and just tested positive this morning! All in all a total disaster.