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Paid a deposit today and I'll be picking it up next week (hopefully). Cheers, David

Have a great day @chriss1455 @Jonboy & @Rob Hunter Derby & Notts AO

Hi all, Late results again, I'm so sorry but here they are at last. I hope the Welsh people treated you nice, it looked like a lovely weekend! Pembrey (R11) - Sat Results Pembrey (R12) - Sun Results Tiggs

Hello all from sunny Alberta Canada. Could not resist joining the best sports car club in the world again. My 1995 (Her Madge) is still on the road and my 73 year old rear end still fits nicely in the silly seat! Good to see some familiar names on the roster.

@Robin Parker (Red Spider) - Yorkshire AO handed over this wonderful model of @Paul Hurdsfield - Joint Manchester AO Westy at the Malvern show it does look better built than the real thing

SOLD!

Latest model finished, Porsche 911 GT2. Not normally a Porsche fan, but I do quite like this.

@AndrewBClarke I'm not sure I can buy into the accuracy of your plan, I normally have a Navigator for that. 9am for a coffee sounds like a plan though!

Happy Birthday guys.

Have great Birthdays guys!

Happy birthday @Rob Hunter Derby & Notts AO hope you have a great one Andy & Becky

Should work with a Stack 8130 as you calibrate the sender using the dash menu.

Happy birthday Rob, lots of love from Glen and Julie xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Happy birthday all. My dad would have been 100 today.

Saw this coming… so sorry to see it go! The most successful chassis in the speed series!

Yes, you can fit all that in a MWB sprinter, if you're good at tetrus. Our first build was a VW LT35, which is a Sprinter under licence.

Morning @Baz456 - Norfolk AO it’s a yes from me!! Once you have posted a meeting point, I’ll work out a route and offer stopping points to collect others. I believe another Lincolnshire member @Phippsyis planning to come but I’ll let him confirm separately. Looking forward to it. Andrew

Hi Steve, I cannot help with the dimensions but I built my own motorhome and two mates have done the same. I would suggest that you go and see as many built van conversions as possible first and don't tie your self to having a Sprinter or Crafter. It depends upon age but they tend to rot if not looked after especially high mileage. Look what converters use and at the moment they are going for Ducato and Citroen and there is good reason. They are very square as many vans taper at the top which you lose space. If I was building another that is what I would chose, spares and servicing available everywhere in the UK and EU. Mine was built 17 years ago and still looks good but fading paint as commercial vehicles tend to have a quick splash. All the bits we bought from Magnum Motorhomes in Cleethorpes trim wise and we built everything else. If you buy proper caravan motorhome products the weight is very light, it is easy to use normal thickness goods and have a heavy van, leaving little for towing. Upholstery material off Ebay. It has shower and toilet but I did not go for on board water and waste as it is unnecessary weight to drag around. The van was two years old when bought and the first thing I did was go to town on waxoyle everything in every box section as you cannot get to them afterwards. Also make sure that the trim fasteners are siliconed, the sprinters are bad for water ingress from them. Good insulation is a must. Plan you electric runs early on. Pictures below what you can produce with a good plan. HTH

Modest too

I've noticed from a few recent posts and from conversations with one or two members that they aren't sure what the PM system is, or how to use it. First, what is it? The PM system is a Private Messaging function within the Boardroom; it allows members to send messages to one another, or even to a small group of other members, crucially though, without revealing the personal email addresses of anyone in the group. The messages themselves are just like emails and can include photos etc. How do I use it? Like most things computer related, there are a few different ways of accomplishing the same task, you pick a way that suits you! I'll cover two methods here, the quick PM and PM'ing from the Messenger manager screen. Sending a quick PM: If you need to respond to someone in a Boardroom post - known as a thread, it's very straightforward! I'll walk you through it below:- Scroll up to one of the persons posts, and click on their "avatar", (that's the picture or graphic at the left hand side of the screen, just below their name). ​A page showing the publicly viewable profile information about that person should have opened up; somewhere just above the centre of the page, you'll see his avatar again at the left, a large banner with their Boardroom name in the centre, and at the right of that, three buttons - "Add me as a friend", "Send me a message" and "find content" Click on "Send me a message" A little pop up window should now have opened, where it says "subject" type a suitable title, underneath that, there is a box labelled "Message". Type your message in here. Once you've written your message, hit the "Send" button below the message box and you're done, the PM will be on it's way to John. It's actually even easier to do than it is to describe!! The disadvantage of this method, is that their is only a very simple text box to type in, so no fancy formatting is possible nor can you add pictures and so forth. Sending a more complex PM: So, the other way to send a PM, that does include a full text editor, is to go into Messenger itself:- At the very top of every screen, there is a little envelope icon, next to your Boardroom name, at the top right. (Whenever you get a new PM, the little envelope icon will change to include a little red circle with a number in it. (The number is the number of new, unread PM's you have!)) If you click on the envelope icon, it will take you to a list of your messages, unread will have the subject in bold type, (click on the message to view it.) You will also see at the top of the message list are buttons to "View all messages" and to "Compose New" messages. Click on "Compose new" - a new page will open, it should look vaguely familiar if youve ever sent an email. In the box labelled "Recipient's Name" you need to type the Boardroom name of the person you want to PM. Helpfully, as you start typing, a selection box will appear with all the Boardroom names that match what you've typed so far in it. The list obviously gets shorter, the more of the name you type. But if you see the person you want in the list, just select them! If you want to send a message to a group, perhaps you're organising a run with a few others, you add their Boardroom names in the "Other recipients" box. Normally, leave the next box as "invitation", (the meaning of this is explained on-screen). Add a message subject. Type your message in the main message box. All the normal Boardroom editing and formatting tools are in the strip just above the message box, so you can format, add smilies, photos, hyperlinks etc as you would anywhere else in the Boardroom. Once done, you can either hit the Send button to send immediately, use the Preview button to see how the message will look, or save it to come back to later. ​Now, at some point, you may receive a new PM, or someone may well reply to a PM you've sent, again, don't panic! If we have an email address for you, then you will get a notification that you've had a PM, this will include the message itself, so you can read it offline. The little envelope icon at the top of every screen will change to include a red circle next to it. In the red circle is a number - telling you how many un-read PM's you've had since you last read any. As before, click on the envelope icon. If you've received fresh PM's you can go directly to them from the pop up list. Otherwise to see your whole messenger and all the old PM's you've had, click on "View all messages" at the top of the pop-up window. This takes you to a list of all the messages you've sent and received. They are known as "Conversations". You can click on any of them to open them up, and carry on the conversation with a new message.* However, the Boardroom doesn't have limitless space, so each member only has storage space for, if I recall correctly, about 50 Conversations. Periodically therefore, if you use the system a lot, a bit of house keeping is required. Any conversations that are old or no longer required, just tick the box to the right of them and select "Delete", then "Go" at the bottom right of the page. ​Note deleting a conversation in your inbox does not delete it in the recipient's inbox. *if the other person in a PM conversation has deleted the conversation at their end, even though you can still see it, you can no longer reply to it. You have to start a fresh PM conversation instead. Hopefully that's reasonably clear!

Successful Sprint car with V5 doc and Motorsport UK passport The car os powered by a Honda CBR 1000RR fireblade with John McGuiness engine (SC59) producing 194 bhp at the rear wheels and it revs to 14000rpm. It maybe the lightest independent wide bodied sprint BEC Westfield weighing 403Kgs. It has lots of carbon fibre parts including full flat floor, carbon mods nose cone, carbon mods bonnet, carbon boot cover, carbon tunnel cover, carbon half doors, carbon rear diffuser etc. I have owned this car for the last 10 years running in non road going classes and set class records, had several FTDs, won the Speed Series championship twice ( 2021 and 2022) and hold several circuit track records. It was previously owned by Andy Rushworth (CAT Motorsport) and with a Blackbird engine he won the Championship twice in Road going classes. The car has removable QR Sparco steering wheel, AB performance alloy paddle shift and rod system with clutchless upshifts using HM quickshifter as well as a slipper clutch for down shifts. The driver’s seat is GRP and has 6 point harness (it will also have a passenger seat and belts – not fitted ), battery is a new Powerlite PS12, and brake pads are Mintex M1144 giving amazing stopping power. The car also has a 7” 3.62 sierra viscous LSD, sprint fuel tank with built in fuel pump, Raceleda alloy uprights on the front with Hi Spec 4pot brakes well as Siltech wide track wishbones (+35mm). The car has double adjusting protech shocks all round, an escort 2.4 ratio quick rack, lightweight BEC front and rear ARBs, short steering arms, lightened discs etc. Rims are Force split rims with fronts of 8" and rears are 9.5" (or 10" fitted with spare inners)". The tyres are old used Avon radial sprint slicks sizes 195/530/13 and 230/55/13. The car has a dedicated Kit ECU as well as a spare standard plug in ECU and is linked to a power commander 5 using a bespoke harness by AB Performance. A Ractechnology 2 dash records RPM, oil temp and pressure, water temp , battery voltage etc. Water circulation is by Davies Craig electric water pump and a polo radiator. exhaust system is AB performance latest design of fireblade exhaust manifold and silencer filled with acoustafil packing. The engine is fitted with the popular AB performance baffled shallow sump and has the manual cam chain adjuster modification. The car will come with lots of spare engine parts including rectifier, set of spare coil sticks, set of surface discharge plugs, wiring harness and connectors, crank sensor and cam sensors, starter motor and fuel pump. There are also spare clutch assemblies, throttle bodies, pistons, con rods, standard camshafts and lots more. This really is the full monty and a seriously fast, well set up car that is easy to drive quickly. I also have lots of technical sheets for set up and parts including specific wiring diagrams. If you want to put this back on the road or in a road going sprint/hillclimb condition it has a V5 doc and will come with most of the parts including wiring loom, headlights , switches, gauges etc. (no handbrake or reverse gearbox) Quite a few action photos of my car are in the last few Westfield World Mags. I have lots of data sheets etc including wiring diagrams, set up suppliers and invoices. Price reduced to £14250 If interested please contact me for more information and pictures/videos etc If interested or want to discuss price please contact me for more information and pictures/videos etc