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The best birthday present ever . It was amazing .

A great day indeed-, where's the Queen of Cakes- when you need her? @Julie Hall - WSCC AO Representative A 'wow' of Ulitimas? Is that the correct collective noun? Thanks for arranging @Rob Hunter Derby & Notts AO

A couple of videos of the car at Donington. The lightweight R1 engined MNR and the heavy MegaS2000 (with a fat old bloke behind the wheel) are quite evenly matched 👍

Agree @Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Chairman, great hosts. Really enjoyed it today. Thanks @Rob Hunter Derby & Notts AO for posting this event. Some lovely vehicles there! Great meet up. Thanks all. Andy

A great day, thoroughly enjoyed the visit, thanks Rob! As for MacG Racing, an impressive setup there, and their knowledge and enthusiasm shines through. Knowledge of Westfields and similar is great too, especially the race prep knowledge. Based off conversations had there today, I'd certainly give them a go for geo set up's etc.

The "few of us" ended up as 8 Westfields, 2 Ferrari replicas, an MK, a Racecorp V8, an Elise and a TVR! And that was just for breakfast! 👏 Nice to see some of the Burton Car Club guys out with their lovely motors. After a lovely "all you can eat" breakfast (I won't need to eat all weekend 😂) we headed off in convoy. Landing at MacG we found Dave, Ian and Andy already there, the car park was full of stunning cars.... It was great to old friend (and ex Westfield owner) Steve there too in his beautiful Noble in prime position, flanked by a Ferrari 400i and an Ultima. Huge thanks to the MacG guys who had put on a fantastic welcome, with tea and coffee laid on with a huge array of cakes and danishes! Their operation is even more impressive, with excellent road and race car preparation, chassis set up and parts sales department. While they are very well known and highly respected in the Ultima community, they also have experience of our cars (Westfield, MK and GBS) and can supply 13" and 15" wheels (4x100 and 4x108 in various offsets), shocks, springs and do full chassis set up, geo and corner weighting. A very successful morning, not only a great car meet in its own right but we have also met a new company with the ability to help with our specialised and beloved motors. They are a great bunch of guys too 👍

waiting a while for mine now , it’s worth the wait imo however I didnt realise my mother in law would beat me to it

Morning all , I was thinking about going to the Haynes Breakfast meet tomorrow morning (Sunday 3rd Sept) . Weather looks good is anyone else heading over to this ? It runs from 8am -12 Noon , Haynes Motor Museum, Sparkford, Yeovil, Somerset, BA22 7LH £5 Entry https://www.haynesmuseum.org/haynes-breakfast-club-aston-martin-paddock

We will be there (but just for the Hulme End leg).

We’ll be there, I did have a clay shoot on but decided it’s more fun cake hunting with you lot.

@itsagoodalife I’ve just booked a ticket so will pop up and have a ganders 👍🏼

Meet at The Tea Junction, Hulme End, SK17 0EZ, 10am for refreshments before taking a run out in the Peak District. Anyone joining us? 😎

Straight from NL, as all my kitcars - unfinished project

Hi, I'll be doing a pre-meet and convoy up tomorrow morning. We will meet at Tatenhill Airport (DE13 9PD) at 845am for a 9am depart and will take the long way up through Marchington, outskirts of Uttoxeter, then Rocester, Bottomhouse and Warslow, aiming to land at Hulme End at 10am. Feel free to tag along 👍

I will do. My kids are super excited to watch. We went to the Red Bull Soapbox race at Alexandra Palace earlier this year and had a great time.

Was almost going to be there, then the sun appeared, then we went to the pub next to where our boat was moored…. Have a great day all and see you next time.

Looking forward to coming to cheer you on. Build looks epic.

Only a couple of weeks to go until race day, so today I went to check out the competition at the Bury St Edmunds soapbox race. there was the usual variety of builds on display from the very simple I love the shoe on a handle for the brake To the much more adventurous. The team from Sealey tools had really gone to town building a full roll cab compete with pull out drawers and tool kit. The best costumes were dastardly and muttley This meccano build looked great too

Away for a few more days so can’t make this but hope you get a few takers. Post some pics up if you go 👍👍

Happy Birthday All

Happy birthday Ian, hope you have had a wonderful day, love from Glen and Julie xxxxxxx

Happy birthday all. 🍰🍺🍰🍺🍰🍺

Happy birthday guys, have a good one

Happy Birthday guys!!

I’ve not had a chance to do much on the car over the last months due to holidays but last weekend I took it along to the local car show and it attracted plenty of attention. Promotion of the race by the organisers is now also In full swing and it’s even made it onto their social media posts.

Not much progress to show for the last couple of weeks as I’ve been very busy with work but I did manage to get the screen finished and some colour on the bodywork. my pushing team suggested I needed something a bit bolder than plain red so I’ve gone for a bright camo vinyl wrap. there’s a few bits to finish on the nose cone before it’s fitted but I’m almost there and ready for testing.

With the nose complete it was fettled to the final shape and offered up to the chassis. An aluminium bracket was made to fix it to the top of the chassis and a Dzus fastener fitted. The bottom is secured in a similar way with a Dzus fastener through the floor. the back of the bonnet will be fixed with slide fasteners.

The last major task is the nose cone. I must confess I’ve been putting this off and it’s been redesigned more times than any other part of the racer. My first thoughts were to fabricate from steel or aluminium since they’re materials I’m happiest with but eventually I settled on fibreglass since it would allow me to introduce sone curves. First job was to make a buck. As I’d already drawn the nose in 3D in Solidworks I made some prints of the profile at 50mm intervals to give the general form. these I then to roughly cut the shapes from 50mm thick insulation. Rye four layers of this were then glued together to roughly form the nose. Once the glue dried these were then cut to the final shape and then sanded to the finished profile. Onto the buck I then applied 2-3 layers fibreglass resin and chopped mat. I’ve not done much with fibreglass so the end result was looking somewhat lumpy but generally what I hoped for. Much like my skills at plastering walls it needed plenty of sanding to remove the high spots and then I gave it another light brush over with resin to fill any holes. the insulation was then cut out from the inside leaving the finished nose cone.

Back on it again this week. Looking at the bonnet I felt it didn’t quite look complete and needed a small windscreen. I cut and folded a strip of aluminium to make a mounting and then ran it through the rollers to put a slight curve on it to match the profile of the bonnet. I then used a scrap piece of aluminium to mock up a small screen and get a shape I liked. once happy I then cut the screen from 2mm polycarbonate and riveted it to the aluminium mount.

I'm a boring git, I prefer the non-stickered look.

You're probably bored of my pictures of me in Avon gorge. But on the off chance you're not, heres me early Sunday morning. Up through burrington combe (bit slippy) and down through the gorge. Was too much fun and went back up again. Hardly any traffic. Gurt mint drive mind!

Night drive on Tuesday. Bit nippy actually wish I had my gloves

This might be more what Mike was thinking!

Bank holiday Lancashire day out.

I needed somewhere better than the dining room/living room to store the new tub, so as the old one is now off... Mind you, lots of work to be done before I can fettle and fit it properly, but at least I’m not falling over it every day, now!

Too good to miss, quick spin round the Elan Valley. Gary

Lovely day today for a drive!

Hardy Monument, Black Down, Dorset at about 10am today.

Last night of my Lake District tour, Waterhead, on Windermere.

If you extended that box filter forwards, into some of that unused space over the cockpit, above the roll bar, you could have both a convenient way of keeping dry/out of the sun, delete as applicable, and have invented the first Luton bodied Westfield!

Looks like the car needs some TLC !! That's alot of gearbox oil ! Looks like I'll be under the westy tomorrow. Have a great day