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Hello all, Ever since I had a bit of track time in a C*terham I've been think of getting a Westfield but work & DIY kept getting in the way. I'm still mid house re-furbishment but the right car came up for sale nearby and I couldn't resist. SEiW 2.0 lt Zetec running 45 weber carbs with a type 9 (sold by Barry Peel) Car is currently garaged until I can get some ramps sorted as driveway is a bit too steep (practicality an afterthought). I'll get some more pictures up once the car is back out on the road. Looking forward to it!

For those familiar with Loton Park you may be interested to hear I got the Westy sub 50 secs. Official time 49.68 sec. New record at the last event there this year.

Parked up ready for the Peaks meet this morning.

A fantastic day! Don’t know how you manage to find so many vintage tractors though! 😀

Many thanks for a great day Julie. Absolutely loved it!

On my trek home from Wokingham to Crewkerne today, parked up to stretch my legs for a few mins.

Westfield Megabusa For Sale It is with great regret I am having to sell this well sorted car set up for fast road and track. I am selling purely on health grounds and am hoping to be back with another Westy in a couple of years. Westfield Megabusa Registered in 2003 but only lightly used then stripped and dry stored until previous owner bought it in 2018 and reassembled it with 75% new or as new parts onto the original frame which is still in perfect condition. I bought it in January 2020. Spec includes - standard Hayabusa Gen 1 engine with undercut gearbox, Power commander 3, Rolling Road set up at RLM showing 169 hp, limiter set to 10k, 3.14:1 Sierra LSD, Westfield Reverse box with modified breather system, SBD dry sump system with gear upgrade and with braided oil lines and a large oil cooler, Bosch electric water pump for cooling, Protech double adjustable shocks and springs with rose joints, Suspension/Geometry set up at Radical race workshop, Rear anti roll bar, Ford rear discs and big Hi-Spec ventilated front discs and calipers, Wide Track front suspension, alloy uprights, short steering arms, Westfield exhaust manifold and silencer (only just repacked) with bolt on additional silencer and a modified Suzuki air-box to keep the noise down for track days, Mechanical paddle shift and conventional gear lever, Westfield race seats on sliders, 4 point TRS race harnesses, Digi Dash and Racetronics gear indicator on a carbon effect dash, extra wide rear arches (gives the car a great stance) and Carbon effect front cycle wings, Carbon Aeroscreen, Carbon cold air intake, carbon boot cover, RAC Roll bar,, Wheels 13” Compomotive CXR approx 9” rear 7” fronts running Toyo R888 all round, 225 rear (only covered around 100 miles) and 205 on front, LED lights all round. Momo 270mm quick release steering wheel. I have done 5 track days and around 1700 road miles, oil has always been warmed to 60C before revving, it has normal wear a tear for fibre glass apart from some starring on the rear arches, and a slight mark on the bonnet (don’t ask!). The speed and handling is great on track but also very user friendly on the road. Odometer 2160 miles, MOT Due 17-03-23 £14,500. If it sells for the right price I will include brand new H/D clutch and springs (nothing wrong with the current one), spare set of extra wide rear arches and brand new carbon CSR front cycle wings which I have not got around to fitting, Black boot box. I will also be selling a low loading trailer, first refusal will be given to purchaser at a price of £1,500. Depending on distance I would also be willing to deliver for diesel cost. Located in Exeter Tel Nick 0-7-7-6-8 8-8-0-2-2-8

Donington Darius debut at the weekend. Some niggles with the car meant I qualified P28/33. Got up to P17 in R1 but the niggles reappeared so I spent the second half defending hard and finished P21. Race 2 was a great fun, a bit spicy a times, but just means Darius looks like a race car now. Brought it home P16. There is a definite top 10 in the car /driver combo. Bring on Snetterton next month.

We did find a few in the Alps, too-

This lady made a sneaky attempt to get an even larger lunch...watch your lunch tokens boys and girls!

As always a great day out, Thanks again @Julie Hall - WSCC AO Representative . Great to see so many cars out late in the year

Knockhill ford day , must have been about 50 escort cosworth’s there today some good track action one Westfield keeping the side up Not a ford but I do love a 205 and this one is special Now that is a load to love

Well a sad day for me , the final pic on the Wirral, ready for its run back home. Bit windy on the M6 but got home in one piece. And back home

There was a guy who’d done a bit of historic touring cars who’d flown over from Australia! He was 77! You’re only a couple of years older so you’ll prob be fine

Ha, you get one type of token for the large lunch and one type for the regular lunch, my advice is not to leave your token within grabbing distance of 'naughty tractor followers' because she will swap it while your attention is diverted. It's what she does in the absence of Ian Kinder's steering wheel, which also get's grabbed at every opportunity. The carvery tokens

Looks like you had a fantastic day again! Can’t wait to get to another meet soon!

Glad it went somewhere local, feels weird not having a Westfield in the gargae as I have owned one since 1991. @Robin Parker (Red Spider) - Yorkshire AO. I mentioned the meets etc. and GAZ 4885 asked me to get you to add him to the Whats app group which I will do on there shortly. Maybe I will come back but at the moment I need to scratch a long term itch into a different marque (No not the dark side ) but somewhere near. Its been a pleasure being part of the club for so many years although this last couple have been more in the back ground due to family commitments on club nights and weekends.

Sorry, one more thing.... I asked Mum to take a picture of me when I set off..... this was the result! 😜

Thanks Julie, Great run out again! Love the photo against the stone wall🤩 only photos I got were Westfield convoy behind and tractor convoy in front!

13 cars, 13 unlucky for some but not us, we had an amazing day and on it goes with @AndrewBClarke @Andy Westwoodand their crazy daft photo's🤣. It's a good job @Si.Dalziel took a decent photo at McD's because mine are a bit rubbish, but here we go. McD's car park Parked with some of the Honda Boys Glynn's and Andrew's Short's were worn on this not so warm day Others turned up later Not the fastest of runs, we had the challenge of overtaking the cyclist's before finding the non-overtakables (is that a word?), a tractor run. We followed them to the junction, saw which way they went and we went the opposite way! I wanted to take the road that passes under The Roaches, but no way was I following them. As it happens I could make it that we went that way for the next leg of our journey, so all was not lost. I had a table for 18 booked at The Rudyard Hotel, where the carvery is excellent. Dave was quick to tell me that you only come here to wear your 'party frock' on your BIG birthday, not just an ordinary birthday, so we will let him off. Here is a photo of the last time we came here on @Ian Kinder (Bagpuss) - Joint Peak District AO BIG birthday, just in case anyone has forgotten. Today folk were dressed more normally The dinner is still as good still as big anyway, Back in the cars, BEANO looking great as usual Having not eaten enough 😮 we had to go cake hunting next. Our Cake Meister suggested we go to Wetton which has a reputation for serving large slices of homemade cakes, good choice there Andy. Also it meant we could divert up to the Roaches road. We shoehorned into the car park Hello Ali x Andy hunted down the last slice of Bakewell cake, leaving the marzipan covered fruit cake for Andrew, no fighting boys. Watch it, the 2 Andy's are at it!! My small offering of coconut and raspberry jam cake We got snapped on our way through Matlock Bath again, I will put those photo's on the next post. Thanks everyone for making today a fabulous day out, I hope you enjoyed the roads and the driving as much as the food and the company XXX

As I said , glad you got the car back but that photo is what I had a while back from a mate, at least your mum got the car in shot, whilst my mate just had his whole hand over the lense, super photo of a half a hand - if you are into that sort of thing 🤣

Thanks, I was tempted to go topless (so to speak) but the weather forecast did predict rain at some point, this proved correct so the roof up was a good idea despite the temps in the car at some points being rather warm, ( glad I took my jacket off first ) . Not a fan of motorways in the Westy but needs must and although the speed restictions on all but two motorways were a pain , the trip back wasn't too bad, glad to read you got Winston back as well 👍

Glad you had a good trip back Richard, it’s been quite an adventurous trip all in all. Probably quite cosy in there, what with your doors and roof, making me a bit jealous 😂

Wow 10 days since I lasted posted on this thread, well quite a lot has happened, not least I am currently sat at home in Lancashire again. But yesterday spent an enjoyable day at a local car show, the first of what is hoped as many at WaterWorld in Neston, Wirral. Far more cars arrived than was expected and the management did at one point have to limit the pubic's entrance to the venue, since there was no more spaces for cars to park. It's not often that I am the only "7" at a car show but I was on this occasion. With the car show scene winding down for the year, I too deceided it was perhaps time to return home, so with a sad farewell after almost 2 months I said goodbye to the Wirral and headed home. An hour and three quarters later I arrived safe and sound back where the car really belongs Huge thanks to the Wirral group without whose help I would be stranded with a bust diff and leaking exhaust gaskets, thank you all for your help and support , and great to meet just a few of the members down there. 👍. There maybe chance to return, but alas without the Westy. That will now be SORN'd for the winter and get some of those jobs sorted out I could never get done during spring/ summer. Thank you all once again and hope to catch up with the Wirral group again.

Hello, and welcome to the club and the Yorkshire area. I hope @barry peel told you about the club and the local meetings. We have 2 monthly meetings, the Tuesday evening one at the Fox and Grapes on York Road, A64 on the first Tuesday of the month from 7:30ish. The next one is on the 4th October. We also hold a breakfast meeting on the 3rd Sunday. At the moment this is moving around to take in different venues. Details of when and where will be posted in the events section of the forum. We also have regular runs out, again these are posted on the forum. Hope to see you around and good to see Barry's car still in the club.

Sorry I missed this. Looks like a great drive out. On the plus side I have now got a date for redesigning our driveway so I can put my car in my own garage and finally move it out of Gran's. As the guy doing the work wanted to check what the issue was I had the car parked up outside and the girls decided it was a fun place to spend the morning. Bryony then decided she wanted to go for a drive out, so once Gemma got home we went for a pootle round the moors and back to base via Mum and Dad's house. All in all a good day, if a bit chilly and lacking in cake. Luke.

Where has @AndrewBClarke gone?

Our journey through Matlock Bath

Snug. Mission accomplished 👍

Well, I’m not sure my right nostril will ever be the same again, but I made it! Must get the wind deflectors fitted as it’s quite blowy at 70 ish! 🥶😜. A fairly uneventful trip in the end, no rain, some heavy traffic in the usual places eg Stonehenge and also a bit further along. Had some good fun when it was clear and on the twisty bit down to Crewkerne. I even got a wave from a chap in a nice blue Caterham! 👍 There’s an entry into the sticker competition somewhere here too. Need a bit of a rest then will tuck him away in the garage. Hopefully the carpod will arrive soon too so I can get him properly stored.

A great day out to Raptor Sports Cars today for cars and coffee with Andrew Entwistle, Kirsten and the team . A good and varied turn out of 7’s saw us get an insight into the story behind Raptor, a look at all their models and workshop. To feel Andrews passion in what is a niche market and see a specialist car being built in Scotland really was a treat. Thanks all for coming along and Andrew has kindly offered to do it again for us, so stay tuned as it will probably be in the spring.

Now the cash is (almost) in the bank for the Westfield to go to pastures new, my membership expires at the end of the month so that'll be me taking my leave and maybe doing some work or something. Ten years in the club and I've made loads of great friends along the way and upset an equal number of people who don't have a sense of humour. Its the people that really make the club, so thanks to everyone for giving me the opportunity to take the p*** out of them. Keep smiling, embrace new blood and new ideas and don't take yourselves to seriously. Before I race my mx5 into the sunset....like, comment, subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/user/russellhalley Cheers Russ

I shall miss your happy lttle face in the paddock.. 😉 Good luck with the racing Russ, I'll be keeping tabs on TSL.