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That'll be the last of your worries when you're upside down in a hay bale 😆

A couple more jobs; firstly the steering rack was cleaned up with a fine wire brush to remove the road grime, just the rubber gators to refit but I won’t do that till I’ve cut down the arms to the final length. The rack was sourced from the French Microcar MC2 and is surprisingly narrow at just 320mm between the pivots. second job was the rear axle. This would have been too large to make in one piece on my lathe so I cut down a pair of stub axles from the moped which are 17mm diameter and then welded these inside a length of 25 dia x4mm wall steel tube. For belt and braces I’ll also be fitting a roll pin on the hole to ensure that nothing comes loose. I don’t want a wheel falling off! 😀

All the steel has now been ordered so with the drawings finalised today I knocked up a very crude jig for welding the front upper and lower wishbones.

A new 12 months mot as of yesterday so all ready for the summer.

Just a few of the finished article for the record.

Here are a few photo's that Mo kindly took on the move, thank you Mo.

@Flying Carrot Steve Just click your menu button (top right), then the WSCC area and browse to your delight!

That's the funniest thing I've read in donkey's years 🤣🤣🤣🤣 bl**** hilarious!

I'm glad I read your post Stuart cos it made me check and I found that I too had luckily taken a screenshot. I'm number 51 it seems. Have had an email from Simeon Cattle which I nearly binned, no mention of Westfield and I had no idea who he was! No actual ticket though, just the email about the glitch. Looking forward to this a LOT!

Had mine too, hope they've got plenty of parking! 😂

An amazing day for many reasons, I love it when the cars come off SORN and we are joined by people we haven't seen for a while. A great big thank you to Rob for bringing a convoy up from the Derby area. Here we are at Quacker's cafe car park. After refreshments and an interview by Hedley it was time to do what these cars do best, and that's to move. The route was very carefully chosen to avoid any tourist traffic and it did that very successfully. The roads were empty, the views were excellent, the convoy stayed together easily and we arrived at The Eyre Arms, Calver very pleased with the day so far. The Eyre Arms car park with Chris (Phippsy) in the line up (orange car). A 2 brake manpower car belonging to Hedley soon replaced Chris's car as he had to leave us at this point. It was lovely to meet you and I hope that you can come again. In the Eyre Arms Next up, ice cream, so that means a trip to Adam's Happy Hen's. To cut a long story short, I was playing 'how to be a car park attendant' again and pestered Chris to fetch his car further down so he could be in the line up for photo's. I was passed his keys and OMG I was allowed to drive his absolute pride and joy, sir I am honoured. He later told me that no-one has driven his car in 15 years only him. Me reversing Chris's car, making sure reverse is where I think it is. No good having a Westfield sunburst on the gear lever, that doesn't tell you does it. Ice cream, waffles, cream, yummy Brilliant day out, these cars are fantastic, great to see you all today, thanks for coming everyone.

My dad tells a story from when he was a stockman back in the '60s. He was working on a 10,000 acre farm which was large enough that there was a certain turnover of stockmen/shepherds/farmhands, so there was always a new guy. One of the initiations was to lock the newbie in the 8ft round concrete slaughter hut, which when the door was closed was pitch dark, the only reference being the walls and the sometimes hanging carcass in the centre. But on this one occasion, unbeknown to everyone involved, two wild cats had got in through the offal drain. By the time they had got the new guy back out, he had been shredded! Incidently, my dad, rolling a smoke...

Tipping a bucket of water under the loo door in the workshop . Then atomising that water from a high pressure airline. It turned the loo into an instant shower room and soaked anyone daft enough to have gone in without disconnecting and taking the air line with them.

Excellent thank you! Now to become even poorer... 😁

@Flying Carrot Steve they are available in the WSCC gifts area

I just wet myself, I thought it said farm shop. I was thinking what the fluff are they doing selling Westfield bags in a flipping farm shop 😂

Gorgeous car!

Same here.

I've just had this land in my inbox:

Just taking my early bumbling steps in editing together the Insta 360 videos - I did film the whole run, and although I'm further in, thought I just stick a quick bit of the start in, as I left Quackers cafe with the gang. The rest needs loads more editing down, to loose most of the hour+ of footage! My next step on a run out, is playing around with the external microphone I've got, to loose the wind noise from the cameras internal mics.

Must be an old video as this Westfield has been off the road for a couple of years now, M4 junction near Windsor. Car at 0:25 seconds in, looks to be broken down.

Two meets in two days for me, I'm a happy boy! 😂 Brilliant morning as always, thanks @Julie Hall - WSCC AO Representative for organising! We had 6 cars land at the pre-meet location. Stu went topless so we could admire the new turbo on the MX5 engine, it's a beautiful install 👌 Matt also came along briefly to meet us all for the first time in his recently purchased ZX10 engined car before heading home. A fun convoy up through Wirksworth and then up my favourite B5056 followed before landing at Quackers to find a sea of stunning cars 😍 After breakfast, a few of us had to head home so I took the opportunity to video the departure 👍 Amazing mix of engine choices today... Zetec, supercharged Zetec, MX5, MX5 turbo, S2000, supercharged S2000, Rover V8, R1 and ZX10R.... something for everyone! Hope you all got home safe, see you on the next one!

It was lovely to meet you all at last! I enjoyed seeing all of your projects! I wanted to get back home to feed the family and have an Easter egg hunt with the kids, only for Google to put me into some sort of 25 mile loop that I didn't notice until the second time around 🤦😂

A couple more photos Lovely install Stu, just be sure the fan belt is on properly! 🤪 someone’s looking for a spot to park Nothing to do with me, blame the photographer! 😁😁 Have a good day all

Earlier today… Great seeing so many, sorry I couldn’t stay. someone’s left a mark!

….And done I won’t mention the runner or e-bike that overtook me 🫢

I built a cart for my local race. Entered for a few years, now my creation sits looking for a new home. Won. Fastest over the course, fastest through the speed trap and longest distance rolled after the finish line. Please with the result considering I built it for less that £150, most expensive bit was some rod eyes from Mc Gill for the steering. Will find a pic if your interested. Happy to pass on FOC to someone who will use it. Kenton

There’s not much to show yet but these are the concept drawings I’ve been working on. The basic dimensions for the driver are not dissimilar to that of a Westfield. Chassis will be 25mm mild steel box with an aluminium floor. Most of the mechanicals such as the wheels, hubs and brakes are from a Peugeot Speedfight moped whist the narrowest steering rack I could source was from an MC2 Microcar. finished weight of the rolling chassis should be 55kg. The bodywork I’m loosely basing around the 1949-51 Ferrari 166 F2. I haven’t worked out how I’m making this yet but if time it’ll probably be fibreglass.

Another new bag! A nice bit of kit - I was very happy until Mrs B. decided it was an ideal birthday present and whisked it away...😢

We used to hire out corrugated workman huts and one day the works people decided to lock inside the young trainee as he'd been a bit mouthy. They then put the water hose in through a gap and soaked him. He didn't twig until later that the hut had no floor and was light enough to be lifted. He got the last laugh as he had to be sent home early as he was soaked.

Usual drawing office japes of sending junior to get a long stand and weight for our drawing board. They always thought circle template was a joke, it wasn't. Asking for a Drafting Licence application from the post office. Detailing a sky hook. Once when delivering a large pack of drawings to an Architect, our junior was also issued with a pack of four bricks, to take with him (he didn't know they were bricks) ....... when arriving at Architects who were in on joke they told him that they were wrong colour brick samples and he need to take them back ..... he wasn't happy and dumped them at Leeds train station ........ on arriving back he was asked for bricks so that we could change them with suppliers rep....... "double hit" as he tried to make up every excuse he could. Brimingham to Leeds is quite a journey with 4 bricks in hand

People are always been sent off to get a left-handed screwdriver or a two-tone spray can and the like. When I was in the Airforce, there was a young newbie in my trade who was sent up to the Medical Flight to get two fallopian tubes - he was nicknamed Tubes for the rest of his days.

As a TV service engineer for a large national rental co. the depot I was at had 15-20 engineers all with company Ford Anglia vans . every morning began in the canteen while we waited for the daily worksheets . Some of the tricks we got up to with each other were jacking 1 rear wheel off the ground so you got into your van and tried to drive off but went no where , swapping plug leads around was a favourite . In summer fish in the air vent . horn activated by a large nut hanging on the end of wire which made contact with "earth" when cornering . spuds up the exhaust pipe , loose wheel nuts , flat tyres and best of all using a length of tow rope to tie the back axle to the nearest lamp post !

Another few… High school teacher had a Volkswagen Beetle. We took the domed hubcaps off and sellotaped some ball bearings to the inside. They worked loose once he got up to speed and went round and round inside the hubcaps, sounding like the wheel bearings had failed. Same teacher, we put rice down the air vents in front of the windscreen. Once he turned the interior vent fan on, he was promptly pebble-dashed. … At work one day, the whole office was having a bad morning thanks to our two 💩💩 bosses and everyone was very down emotionally, so I thought we all needed a bit of a lift. The bathrooms were tiny, single occupancy units, about 4' wide by 7’ long. Each one had a loo, a sink, a mirror and a hot air hand dryer with a rotating nozzle so you could also point it upwards and dry your hair - which no one ever did, of course. I emptied all the hole punch machines in the office and took the thousands of paper dots in a paper cup into the ladies room, turned the hand dryer nozzle towards the ceiling and filled it up. What I thought would happen is that one of the ladies would go in, do her thing, wash her hands, go to dry her hands and rotate the nozzle downwards, and all the dots would fall out and make a big mess. What actually happened (from later reports) was that the female office manager went in, dropped her drawers, sat down, and to cover the sound of her peeing, hit the button. So there she is, knickers around her ankles, interfaced with the toilet, and suddenly in the middle of a violent snowstorm. Of course, the fan is on a timer and won’t shut off for 20 seconds, so the snowstorm lasted a bit. According to her, the dots got EVERYWHERE. Next thing I knew, she flew out in a rage, leaving a cloud of dots in her wake. For some reason, she immediately blamed me even though everyone was laughing at her anger. No idea why - I’m so innocent. 😇

A few from my youth. Van de Graaff generator wired to the door handle at college. Made our tutor jump when he came in. I cooked up some ammonium tri-iodide and planted it under some newspaper in the threshold of the 6th form common room. Produced loud ‘cracks’ and puffs of purple smoke as people came in. This one backfired a bit though. Once I thought all the fun had been had, I gathered up the newspaper and put it in the bin. The following day there was a bit of a scandal as the cleaner had emptied the bin and it exploded…..other than iodine stained fingers and the shock, she was fine, but I was mortified. For the record, I did fess up and apologised to her. Converted a traffic cone to remote control and had it perform laps behind the headmaster during an important speech. From work, not much opportunity for nonsense really, so they tended to be pretty lame. When doing password resets I had a habit of picking stupid ones for certain people. In the early days of our work network running Windows clients with network cached user profiles, again, for certain ‘special’ people I’d edit the user data so when they logged in they got all the desktop colours set to black, and the origin of the main display set off-screen so nothing was visible. Again, for some ‘special’ people I’d install tweaked system sound effects. All very nerdy and mostly harmless…. Not mine, but memorable, a much loved staff member was leaving. Our site was at the top of a hill. Someone wired the horn on his car to the brake lights. You can imagine the result as he rolled down the drive honking as he went. Another one not mine but very good. A colleague was notorious for being late for work. One of his shift ‘mates’ got an exceptionally loud ‘ahoooogha’ style klaxon, hid it in his workbench drawer and wired it so it sounded when the guy came in and hit the breaker. Another staff departure, got a roll of giant bubble-wrap, cut a strip about a foot wide and 19 foot long, bundled it up above a front tyre and gaffer taped one end to the tyre so when he drove off, the bubble-wrap got pulled under the tyre. Made a fantastic noise and got the desired reaction. I was the recipient of a good one on my 40th birthday. A long time mate shot and edited an entire fake news piece about me, local footage, interviews with people, the whole works, then cut it into a real news program and finished it off with a ‘happy birthday’ message from the well known presenter. The final trick was to set up a perfectly timed replay and put it on screen so I could be called to watch it as if it was live on air. Had me going for a short while when I saw my home village and then house on the TV on what I thought was that days live news.

We had one of these in our workshop. It was used to sandblast spark plugs then you used to test the spark by pressing the button. We regularly used to run a wire to the door knob and when someone, none workshop tried to open the door, they held the knob, we pressed the button and sent them a shock. On certain people they seemed unable to let go of the knob whilst screaming. A quick pull on the wire and they had no idea why they got a shock. The sales manager even had a sparky come in to look at the door. Never got old that one to our inner child

I got hit by an errant wheel/tyre whilst riding my new GSXR1100 back in 1988. It was the first crash I couldn't walk away from. Cause was the car owner using the wrong wheel nuts on his alloy wheels. When the cops arrived, 3 of the wheel nuts were still on the hub. The payout from that was used to buy my blue Westfield 😄