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Went to the father in laws.

A little spin in the sun……

Derby Notts at Shardlow today

All it takes is one puddle 😭

No, the real thing, just far away Father Dougal.

Is that one of your models Robin?😉

Better than wet horse do-do at least. I've had that a few times on country roads 🐎

Just after I put my first car on the road 23 years ago, I was out for a little local run, nothing exuberant honest. After a while I became aware of a police car following my every move, I was thinking oh flippin’ eck, is it going to be like this every time I go out? And he kept following me all the way home, I pulled up outside my garage, he parked up and came walking over, and yes all he wanted to do was talk about the car and tell me about the Cobra he was building 😎

That's pretty much how this went! A vague implication of speeding but we both knew I hadn't been above 30... a quick licence check (34 years without a single point!), MOT and insurance check (no issues there!) and a quick visual on tyres etc. After that it was "did you build it?", "what's the engine?", "how long have you had it?", "how much did it cost?", "where are you all going?", "are you all in a club?" etc Funnily enough, I passed him on the way home too where he was doing another speed check in Ticknall and he gave me a wave 😂

At last, some nice weather!!!! Lee, Hedley, Tony, Alex, Michael and I met up early doors at Swadlincote. I'd planned a route through the local B roads to Shardlow so set off through Swadlincote in convoy. Shortly afterwards I managed to get pulled over by one of our friendly boys in blue after exhuberantly accelerating from a mini roundabout.... the exchange went like this.... "Do you know the speed limit sir?" "Yes officer, it is 30mph, I live half a mile away" "How fast do you think you were going?" "I was doing 30mph officer, but I did get there quite quickly!" "Yes, very quickly! Not very grown up making such a scene with all that noise is it sir!?" "No officer, apologies, the car is a little loud but I was within the speed limit" "Hmmmm.... Do you have your licence? I will be checking your car while you are here" 5 minutes later after a check of my insurance and finding nothing wrong with the car, his demeanour changed somewhat... had I built it? how powerful was it? do i take it on track? etc etc 😂. After the pleasant chat with the nice officer, I scooped up the rest of the convoy (who in true Top Gear, style had scarpered.... thanks guys! 😂😂) and headed for the twisties where we made a whole lot more noise! Landing at Shardlow we found Glynn and Steve already there so parked in formation in the sunshine. I hadn't even got out the car when the laughter started about my run in with the traffic officer 😂. Sadly, @HB46443has the stop on video so no doubt it'll be posted all over social media within the next few hours 🤦‍♂️ After the ribbing we indulged in a coffee and bacon buttie, and headed to admire the cars. A cracking morning of cars and laughter with a bunch of mates! Hope you all got home safe, see you on the next one 👍

Time to put a rumour to bed (probably started by @Scott Young (Captain Colonial) - Club Secretary 😉) I'm not a saggy, old cloth cat, baggy, and a bit loose at the seams! I've never named any of my cars and I didn't name this one! Someone else did....read on........ on the 6th Nov 2014, I visited Westfield Sports Cars for the first time and placed an order for a Mega S2000 full kit with White bodywork (having tested and bough a S2000 engine and gearbox that morning). I've had previous white cars: As I started my build, I soon learned that I'd need to fit indicator pods on my nose cone to meet IVA requirement. Post IVA I planned to move the indicators to under the headlamps. I therefore didn't want to drill holes in my nice new white nose cone to have to fill them later on. @Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Chairman kindly offered to lend my his spare nose cone which already had holes for the pods. It was bright yellow and was slightly damaged. Dave suggested it would need repairing and painting for IVA, so I asked if he wanted it painted the same colour as it was, the same colour as his blue S2000 or white. Dave said, do whatever I want or even do something daft! A quick google and a found a colour I liked. As the father of two girls, it was a colour I was comfortable with. A quick photoshop mock up and I was happy: Dave's nose was quickly repaired and painted for 'mates rates' by a friend in a body shop. On the 17th March 2016, I was 'followed' by this car, all the way to my IVA Test As I was unloading, the Examiner came across to say hello and said that he likes Westfield's and they are usually well built for IVA, though he had to ask 'Why have you painted your nose pink?" My reply "So you won't want it in your test bay for long, and you won't want it back!' This set the tone for an enjoyable morning and I walked out with a pass. Shortly after I got home, the indicator pods 'fell off' and the nose cone holes were filled in. It wasn't quite time for my pink phase to end. My unique car had gained plenty of WSCC fans (Especially @CosKev) during my build and they needed to see it in the flesh. Also a certain 'kit car show' was close by: Also a run out to my local Cheshire and North Staffs WSCC Meet, which was sharing the pub with the Ferrari owners club: If you zoom in, you'll spy an 'ouch' sticker over my attempt to fill/paint the holes. Here's it next to @lloydox (builder) @fildyke(current owner) lovely S2000, for my Geometry set-up. On the 19th June 2016 (Father's Day)- I was attending a local transport festival. I put my full size front number plate on( @marcusb honestly, officer!) , and less than 3 miles from home, as soon as my speed went passed 30mph, it fell off and got driven over! It's been in the boot since! During my build, after the nose colour was decided, I'd noticed that my local bus company had taken design inspiration from me and stickered up their fleet! So as it was Father's Day, I though I best visit my local bus depot for a 'Father and Son' Selfie: After IVA I also fitted one of @Kit Car Electronics excellent Free Wheel kits. In the press of a button the end of pink...........or is it.............. My car ran like this from 21st June 2016 until July 2017 and the pink nose went back to @Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Chairman as a spare. Every time the garage door was rolled up, I did miss the pink nose. Fate was about to play it's hand. @Greenstreak-Andy D invited @Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Chairman and I to his 50th Birthday celebration at the 2017 Le Mans 24H, which was to be our first Euroblat. The trip was excellent and after the race, rather than rush back home we had a few more additional days bimbling round northern France. On one of these days I had an 'Oh la, la ' moment after a long hot, tiring day with a dry stone wall on our hotel carpark, whilst reversing, I failed to note how close my rear driver's side wing was to the abutment on the wall. Which resulted in: It didn't ruin the great trip, but wasn't going to stop like that. My wife, kindly suggested it wouldn't rust and could stay like that! I'd done similar but less significant damage to the passenger side arch on my own driveway, when reversing without mirrors during my build and had badly bodged it with gelcoat. So both wings needed to be repaired properly. Time for some colour & with some help from Photoshop, I was stuck between these two colours: @Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Chairman kindly agreed to sell me the pink nose, the rear wings were removed and all items went back to my friend to be repaired and painted. I 'really' enjoyed removing the silicon sealant used to hold the stone guards on with. The first meet with my new colour scheme was the excellent Gold Cup at Oulton Park in Aug 2017 You'll notice the 'ouch' stickers still on the nose cone, my friend in the Body Shop had a holiday to go on, and the nose had to wait a while longer. In Sep 2017, I attended a Peak District Meet at Tatton Airfield, and during lunch the discussion turned to a name for my car. @Geoffrey Carter (Buttercup) was mentioned and I stupidly suggested 'Primrose' in jest (I was quickly corrected by the green fingered ones amongst us that they are yellow too ). @Julie Hall - WSCC AO Representative blurted out 'Bagpuss' in between chomps of cake and the name has stuck ever since. She shortly after gifted my bonnet ornament of the stuffed toy and most in the club started to refer to me as Bagpuss too. So I've not fought it! I've been called much worse 😉

Is that really how small our cars look alongside normal ones! I've never really looked before. It does look like it's shrunk.

I will, one day! Need the timings to work….

You should have joined us at Shardlow 👍

@AndrewBClarke I've posted the meet on the Book of Face too 👍

Will you be bringing your new donut munching - hair dryer pointing friend?

Friday asap for me - heading down as soon as I awake (in theory). Save me a space 😁

I had a white F11 five series for a while years ago. It hadn't been out many months, and must have just coincided with Cheshire's traffic Pol. changing over themselves over the following few months. I got stopped a number of times for very minor little technicalities, and each time it would go along the lines of "Do you know ........." (what ever I'd done wrong), followed by a "don't do it again" at which point, it would be some variation of, "how do you like the car, I've got one coming in a week or two"!! All they really wanted to do was have a look and a chat about the car.

He had the laser speed gun on me so knew I wasn't speeding, he spent more time asking about the cars and where we were going than anything else 🤷‍♂️

Weather forecast seems ok so we are on and looking forward to it. Roads should be quiet due to other world events that are taking place I have tried to attach two GPX files of the routes for anybody who wants them. Even I have managed to download onto a TomTom but no idea how you download to a Garmin! Matlock_to_Ramblers_Inn (1).gpxRamblers_Inn_to_Fountains_Tea_Room_Bonsall.gpx

Parked up in one of the Brooklands race bays this afternoon…

Sorry Andrew can't make this one