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Photo of the winter trackday machine at a very wet Oulton this Friday just gone.

Time for a double celebration: To my knowledge this is the first LHD car to pass an IVA in the UK! It's probably the highest mileage kit, given it's crossed the Atlantic twice (circa 10,000 miles in total) before IVA too. This started with a kit delivery in April 2014. Very well done @elrik a great achievement and I wish you many miles of happiness in your great car! If you've enjoyed building it, just wait till you start driving it more and getting used to it etc.

Cleaned and then put to bed for winter.

And Tim parked on the end of the row (photo also stolen from the GBCJ)

Thanks yet again Julie👍 Another great day. I didn’t get any photos so I’ve nicked the one from GBCJs website 😂

Took the small person to her horse riding lesson in the Westfield as it needed a run out, then had a pootle to Ham Hill Country Park and back. She was looking a little blue when we got there, so an improvised face cover was needed! 🤪 It was a day for silly hats and silly jumpers for me 🤣

Had another good day thanks to Julie and great seeing people out enjoying the sun & rain. Had a great run home in the sun, even had to put sunglasses on. Ali is now looking at nail guns online to help fill her one shelf in the garage.

New carbon fibre dash in. Easy job? Just swap the wires onto the new switches and off you go. NO. 2 wires on 6 terminals, wiper switch working the wrong way (switch on, wipers off. Switch off, wipers on) Side lights on, no headlights. Sidelights off,headlights on. Got everything working by trial and error, put the dash in and the loom was under the hoop. Everything off and loom moved above hoop and plugged back in. Everything working so dash fitted. Start the car, and it won't start. A few choice words, well quite a few really, and I've come in for a coffee. The dash looks good, but not much different to the old one. Everything was working fine so why did I change it? Because that's what we do.

The Great British Car Journey, Ambergate, Derbyshire, DE56 2HE are hosting a car gathering from 10am on Sat 19th November. It is £5 per ticket which can be booked on the eventbrite website. Refreshments are available. Is anyone joining us?

Afternoon All All the members missing magazines have new been processed and will be with you shortly, can I please ask those that haven't received a magazine please check that your "Billing address" corresponds with your "profile address" as this is how the mailing list is automatically generated, thanks for your understanding. Thanks Mark

Yes you'll need a passenger seat and belts. And yes you can run a sequential box. You'll also need to run CAT if your cat needs one for the MOT (if that makes sense)

Hi @Daniel from Anglesey , I have recently fabricated my wind deflectors Polycarbonate is bettet than acrylic ( race car windows are for some reason polycarbonate, not acrylic) . Used 3mm and 4mm (firss was 3mm as i had spare in garage, it was going to be just to try, but I keep it - works as well as 4mm, no difference during drive). Cutted just wit jigsaw , not proud with the edges in first deflector second is better, third...never done Bends - catching deflector between two blocks of wood in vice heating with heat gun . But that way did only main bend, was not sure what angle etc to make second one, so decided to attach this lower part with bolts. I know, not nice internal edge with this what was going to be "just to try" deflector, but works , so stays as is : As said above - it works, also works nice to record videos without wind noise !

Thanks for organising @Julie Hall - WSCC AO Representative , we seem to be cursed with rain every time we go to the GBCJ, I'm starting to think it has its own weather system! 😂 Having not been in the car for 2 weeks, I got all excited and arrived at Willington Services far too early but the sun was out! Mind you, it was verrrry cold but thankfully heated coat had come out of hibernation! @Tim Coles and @Stuart (in the lovely M240i) arrived at about 9am. Stuart even put the electric roof down (poser! 😂) in solidarity, but with the heated seats, 3 litre twin turbo powered heating and air deflector I'm sure he was far warmer than Tim and I 😂 Nine Westfields (plus Andy, Becky, Gary and Stuart in "normal" cars) in mid November is an amazing turnout, thanks everyone for making the effort! It's typical though, only 10 miles south and no rain.... another 10 miles and it was blue skies again!

We briefly gathered everyone up at The Hurt Arms to take the 1 minute journey to the Great British Car Journey museum where we all got parked together, it was dry at this point 😃. After a bit of a tyre kick the tea pot beckoned and we all piled into the cafe to continue our conversations. Here we are, anyone with magical photo editing skills please feel free to sharpen this one. When we came out of the cafe it was raining, so any thoughts of looking around the other cars were dashed and we set off, some for home and some in search of cake. Luke Steve Tim Stuart's M240i I rang round but places were full so I booked us into the Fountain at Bonsall, only 10 minute's away, which is far enough when you are shoehorned into a wet car The Fountain car park Inside the cafe Andy and Becky always half their cakes to share them and this is an 'Andy's Half' well Mr Gilbert, that is never halved, tut, tut, and these people build cars. Let's hope the build manual never says 'cut this piece in half' 😂 Obviously Becky took the larger half as Andy then had to prey on Andrew for his cake 😂 Glynn was keeping well out of it While I was absent exactly who was it, Rebecca Gilbert, that nicked my camera and photographed these loonies 😁 A message to @Andy Westwood , where were you today? you were missed by these stand-in Cake Meister's Thankfully it was dry when we came out of the cafe so we all removed our half hoods. The way home was not without challenges, we turned at Matlock due to heavy traffic, we knew both Bakewell and Chatsworth had their xmas market's on, so we took to the back roads with all the other locals, it was like the Wacky Races as no-one was hanging around, so we got a run out after all, brill. See you next time, go and fetch some sunshine though please.

Little trip out to Ham Hill Country Park while the rain is elsewhere!

^^You have hit the nail on the head ^^ ...anybody else could as well.. accessing valuable information in areas like Tech Talk is a benefit for WSCC members like you

Got our wedding photos through today. This is one of my faves!

For those coming from the south, we will do our normal pre-meet at the A50/A38 services (DE65 6DX) at 9am for a 915am departure and convoy up to the Hurt Arms to meet the rest of the gang. Feel free to tag along if anyone is coming that way 👍

Todays run out to blow the cobwebs away

Just found new excuse to go for a ride : taking pictures

@Mole I've got my eye on Saturday for a little potter around the local area whilst I build up my confidence in the car and gain some familiarity with it. 'tis truly an eye opener after the usual tin tops!

These are good and I've had them on my past three Westfield's. eBay item number: 112433229305