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Always good to speak with Fraser 👏

Today we travelled from Rotterdam Europort and called into ER Classics on route, some nice cars for sale but a bit pricey 😵

Preparing our display area. Good size this year!

Good Morning All, Firstly thank you so much to all those that have ordered parts from us this week its really appreciated. We have added more parts to our clearance section and have also discounted a lot of lines by an additional 10% from last week. https://westfield-sportscars.co.uk/shop/category/accessories-merch-offers-clearance-91 Thank you again for all your support and wish you all a good weekend. Kind regards WCL Team

POSTPONED DUE TO WEATHER FORECAST Meet at The Strines, Mortimer Road, S6 6JE, midday on Sunday 30th July. I am hoping that this fairly central location will attract AO's and members from a lot of different areas so we can have a good tyre kick by the display of cars. The fairly small car park in front of the pub has a big over spill car park behind it up the hill, as it is summer we will be better off parking up there. Bring your flags if you have one. Who is interested? who is coming?

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It was great to see everyone last night; we were a little light on Westfields, specially with both mine and Ian’s car just waiting on a few small bits to finish off the post near 2000 mile trip servicing. It was especially fantastic to see Fraser again and catch up. It’s been probably three years now, since I’d had a chance to speak to him, and more like four since he had a chance to make an area meet. Keep an eye on the calendar for our next meet, weather dependent, we will do the Swettenham Classic run on the Tuesday if possible.

Depending on the weather I plan to come on the Saturday, I have family plan on Sunday otherwise I be there both days.

Todays trip was from Germany to Holland via Spa circuit for a quick look at track action 🙂 Spa also has a good cart track on route to Eindhoven we had a close call with a level crossing @W Shep had to do a quick reverse when the barrier came down 😵 Chinese for tea followed by a Tesla taxi home 😎

Hi everyone, Hope you are all well and looking forward to another bank holiday weekend. Just wanted to let you know that we are updating the parts shop and in particular the clearance section on a daily basis so please check it out for some bargains. If there are any parts that you cannot find please let me know on parts@westfield-sportscars.co.uk and I can look at getting these added for you. Thank you for all the feedback we have received and if there is anything at all i can help with please get in touch Kind regards Jase - Westfield Chesil Parts Dept

I'll be there. Any one coming from Yorkshire, I'll work out a route so we can convoy down together. Let's hope it doesn't rain like the last time.

Thanks for all the comments I’ve a busy weekend coming up so doubt I’ll have much time to work on the car but I managed to find a quick half hour after work this evening to cut and fold the bonnet. the aluminium sheet was too large for my bender so I clamped the fold between two lengths of steel angle and then hammered the bed with a rubber mallet. the roll was likewise done on the lawn over a length of 4” drain pipe.

thanks Stephen, I’ll have a look into a JustGiving page too. I’ve just done my 100 for today, 700 for the week so still on track 👍👍

Hiya, Yes all done and leaving today via UPS, should be with you Monday. Thanks again for your order.

Fab attendance last night, big thanks to everyone for coming along! Nice line up of Westies, Paul's VX220 Turbo and and Steve's MK. Later on we were joined by Mick in his stunning Elan, had to get a photo as it is a thing of beauty 😍 Loads of chat and laughs with friends, with stories of Le Mans and Chris telling us all about how he has recently become a 2 Westfield family with his and hers cars! We had a lot of friendly banter about the imminent Donington track day. For quite a few members it's their first time on track so some nerves and loads of excitement! I'm really looking forward to it, should be a fun event. Newark was also a hot topic, many of us will be camping Saturday evening which is always a great laugh, especially the evening after a few bevvies! We will of course arrange a convoy from our area so watch this space! While we were talking meets, we chatted about the possibility of a "meeting of the areas" later in the month. Seems we have some good interest, more details to follow soon!

My build was an early 1.6 and by choice I’d build the same spec again if I could. Don’t be out of by the short nose crank issues. Yes there was sone that suffered problems when gorillas tightened the crank bolt and over torqued it but equally plenty that didn’t, I’ve owned three such issues and none displayed any problems. The advantage of the 1.6 is that you can change the timing belt without removing the crank pulley so in theory the bolt should never have been touched. Steer away from the cars with an auto gearbox though as the engines were lower compression. I think if I couldn’t get another early 1.6 then I’d use a 1.8 vvti donor now. When sourcing a donor mx5 also look for one with the least options and gadgets, you’ll be thankful when it comes to striping the wiring loom.

I won the lottery last week, sort of… just bought a pair of sports seats with red piping on the clearance section… well chuffed, now to get them home……

@Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Chairman I had exactly the same experience overnight for a much smaller part. Ordered yesterday here 9am today.

Impressive as ever. Keep up the good work Mark.

No half measures, as usual 😜 Top job.

Amazing work

So, ordered yesterday morning, the link pipe arrived at 14.46 today, with parcel tracking via a link on the Westfield Parts site. Great service and good improvements to the process.

Wow! Very neat!

That looks incredible! Amazing job 👍👍

With just over two months to go, I’d say you’ve plenty of time to finish and test it!

Superb work, as always!

Just over 200 miles under the belt today 😎 We had a couple of early morning glitches Wayne had a coolant pipe leak and Jim had a loose steering column, both quickly fixed and onward to Luxenbourg 🙂 We enjoyed a nice scenic route through Luxembourg including up a cycle path when Paul was leading 😅 On into Germany and we’ve arrived at a hotel stop for two nights near the Nurburgring 🙂

Thanks Dave, still on the lookout for a (hopefully yellow) replacement for it.

As my catalytic convertor has finally died, (given the cooking its had over the years, I'm surprised it lasted this long!) I've just noticed the S2000 cat delete/link pipe in the sale with quite a bit off, so ordered one this morning. Thanks Jase.

Classics by the river last night in Durham. One lucky owner of 2 x DB2's 😱💰

The final final version! 😊

A few more recent images, some of the Moon, Venus and a recent large Active Region on the Sun. This shows a feature called Schröter’s Valley and the bright crater is Aristarchus. This one below shows two features called the Lunar X and V, highlighted in the next image. This one is of Venus showing around half phase. Finally a very large and detailed Active Region on the Sun. It was big enough to show a a black dot when viewing the Sun with eclipse glasses. Through a decent solar scope it was amazing, about ten earth diameters across I think.

Sorry we can't make this one as we have other plans booked. 😪