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I'm with you on your centiment. It annoys me no end. As such I now tax the camper and westfield monthly and cancel the tax as soon as it looks like i'm not going to use it, and hang on to the latest opertunity in spring to tax them again. Most vehicles like this only do a few 1000 miles per year. Where as my daily does loads of miles, the Emissions won't be genuine, and it costs about a 3rd the amount in tax. You'd think they was trying to extort money from us!... I can't drive more than one car at once!.. The only fair way would be to simply add the cost to fuel.. But they've alrady done that already, just forgot to stop taking vehicle tax as well. Or why not have limited milage tax, we do it with the insurance.

Anyone up for a late summer trip out?? Weather forecast is set fine for a change! Our esteemed leader is away on holiday so I thought I’d rally the troops and organise something. Meet at Quackers at 10am then a trip out before lunch and then onto somewhere else for the obligatory cake. Who is coming??

Hi all, I am Dean am based in South Wales and just took delivery of a lovely mega S2000 from the great boys at toybox. Hopefully I can get to some local meets and find out a but more about working on these great cars and have some great blats 😉

We’re not working or dealing with parents so it would be rude not to 😜 and if we go to a Mcd’s drive through on the way it means we get an extra 1/2 hr in bed , it’s not because I’m a greedy b*****r 🤣 , see you Sunday

Please put 27th Jan 2024 in your diaries for the Awards and celebration.It will again be at the Leonardo Hinckley Point Hotel. Further details will be posted later. I anticipate that the price will be similar to last year as will B&B

Congratulations to Adam Phelps (@phelpsa) our 2023 Speed Series Champion! His and his family's hard work developing their car over the years has paid off, not to take away credit from Adam, as he is an incredibly quick driver, able to beat out much more specialist machinery in the Westfield! Once again, a huge congrats to Adam, it was always going to happen!

Yes we did.......🙂

They have deliberately called it VED ( Vehicle Excise Duty) a while ago, so that's it's got nothing to do with the Road and everything to do with taxing you more and more. Whilst if seems more sensible to hope for a tax per mile as @Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Chairman has said be careful what you wish for Personally I've always thought the best way is just to add whatever VED raises and add it to the Petrol & Diesel sold for Road use, has the advantage that it really will hit the highest using vehicles, by implication most polluting maybe. But also it will then reduce the amount of administrative cost associated with VED. But I do also think it's a good idea to say charge a nominal fee for Car registration, to allow cars to be used on the road, keeps track of who owns which cars, that is otherwise easily lost.

Wild guess, a particular Division or Company ?. They tend to have their own either colour scheme or added embellishment to the main logo. Just a guess mind... ETA- Good read but doesn't answer the colour question. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Corps_of_Signals 2nd Battalion, Royal Anglian Regiment Taken from here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tactical_recognition_flash Although there are others very similar

Not a car badge but the Royal Core of Signals regimental badge.

Be careful what you wish for, and the law of unintended consequences. Like along with your invoice for travelling x miles along the listed roads a note that your speed exceeded limits over certain sections and that a separate invoice is on it's way for those offences....

They'll do that and keep the road tax D

Ok so the plan is - 10am meet up at Quackers DE45 1NY Eat Drive to Chatsworth Garden Centre DE4 2NX 25 miles 60 minutes Eat Drive to Old School Tea Rooms, Wetton DE6 2AF 18 miles 46 minutes Eat Obviously if you are @aeg eat a McDonalds on the way Routes if you wish to download - Quackers_to_Chatsworth_Garden_Centre.gpx Chatsworth_Garden_Centre_to_Wetton_Tea_Rooms.gpx

fingers crossed, I'll be there!

Welcome from just over the bridge. I'm not sure who the South Wales AO is but I'm sure someone will tell you soon enough. We have a decent group over here in the Bristol area too.

I don't wish to fill this topic purely with Apollo 11 stuff, so last one from me, this is a track by Public Service Broadcasting with a track called GO!. They sampled the videos above and made music with them, they do a lot of space related music applying the same technique of sampling old audio.

Through my 15 or so years being in and around the WSCC Speed Series, I have never known much of what happened 'before my time'. Because of this thought, I decided to compile a list of all the WSCC Speed Series Champions from 1998 to today. I have included information and photos of the winning car in the season that it won. All info is from the Westfield World Magazines which are available to download and view, or from general paddock talk over the last decade. 1998 - Nick Lear Unfortunately, I was unable to find much information on Nick Lear's 1998 season, beyond him competing in the then Class A with a Crossflow powered car. 1999 - David Jones Similarly to Nick Lear, there is only limited information that I was able to find. David Jones competed in Class A with a Crossflow powered car. 2000 - Lindsay Pointon Competing in Class B in his Vauxhall C20XE (Redtop) powered car, Lindsay was the first of many C20XE powered champions. 2001 - Garry Bunn The well known now ex-Derby Notts AO, Garry piloted his Crossflow powered car to the championship in class A. Unfortunately I was unable to find a photo of this car, but he went on to compete in an amazing Cosworth powered car. 2002 - Adrian Clinton-Watkins Even when he was still young, Adrian Clinton-Watkins; the man behind GGR Communications and forum admin, was blisteringly quick in a Westfield. For his first championship, he competed in a Class B with a C20XE powered Car. 2003 - Tom Green The man responsible for the WSCC Speed Series, without which many friendships would not have been formed. Powering along in the famous Westfield 'Flymo' GT with a John Eales Rover V8, Tom was able to win the championship in Class H. 2004 - Tim Pennington Tim brought the championship back down to earth by winning overall in his Crossflow powered car that was still very modest (especially compared to the Flymo) in Class A. 2005 - Guy Hussey Probably one of the most interesting seasons in Speed Series history. Guy drove his Dad's Vauxhall X16XE powered Raw Striker to the overall championship in Class A, before the guest classes were introduced to the Speed Series. 2006 - Mark Smith The first SBD car to win the Speed Series. An extremely well tuned C20XE by SBD was the powerplant that helped Mark Smith win in Class H. 2007 - Andy Rushworth The first bike powered car to win the championship. A CBR1100xx Blackbird engine in a road-going Westfield. This chassis has gone on to win 4 Speed Series Championships (as of 2022), the most of any single chassis so far. 2008 - Andy Rushworth The first person to win the championship twice, and back to back non the less. 2009 - Richard Kerr This northern speedster drove his C20XE powered Westfield to the overall Championship in Class D. 2010 - Phil Newall 2010 saw the first of the Fireblade powered Westfields come to win. Phil Newall's example being one of the lightest cars ever built, with a modern 1-litre bike engine in the then Class G. 2011 - Stuart Hill The first Toyota powered Westfields to win the championship the 4AGE a great engine to get him the win in Class C. 2012 - Adrian Clinton-Watkins Now with a Duratec in his Westfield, Adrian came with a mission, and won the overall championship in Class F. 2013 - Barry Slingsby A return for the C20XE powered overall champions in Class D, and a second of the 'Team GGR' coloured cars to win overall. 2014 - Adrian Clinton-Watkins Adrian now sets the record for the most wins by a single person, with 3. This season, Adrian came to the championship with a very special engine, a de-stroked 1800cc Duratec which would place him in Class E. Interestingly, after the car had a large off at Loton Park, the engine and gearbox were transferred to Barry Slingsby's chassis to finish off the season at Ty Croes, Anglesey. 2015 - John Hoyle The first win for John Hoyle, an incredibly quick Yorkshireman with a C20XE powered car in Class D. 2016 - John Loudon The throaty roar of the 1700cc Ford Puma powered Westfield of John Loudon won the championship in Class E. 2017 - John Hoyle John Hoyle took back his title from John Loudon, this time, competing in Class F. 2018 - Howard Gaskin Another Championship for the trusty old C20XE, this time back in Class D. Going into the final day of the final event of the season, 3 people were still within a chance of winning. Howard Gaskin, Terry Everall and John Loudon. In the end, a points difference the equivalent of 0.07 seconds split Howard and John. 2019 - John Hoyle John Hoyle comes back swinging in Class F, as he equals Adrian Clinton-Watkins record of 3 championships won. 2020 - None Due to COVID-19, the 2020 season was cancelled. 2021 - Terry Everall After competing for approximately 20 years, Terry had finally won the Speed Series. A comeback for the Honda Fireblade CBR1000rr which had always been a very competitive engine since it's first appearance in a Westfield. Also a third championship for the chassis, as Andy Rushworth had won his championships in this chassis back in 2007/8 2022 - Terry Everall Just like busses, ey. With the 2022 championship won, the chassis has the unique distinction of being the only chassis to win 4 championships, with 2 back to back victories, over a decade apart. 2023 - Adam Phelps The 2023 season once again came down to the last event weekend to be decided, this time Adam Phelps just edged out Adrian Clinton-Watkins by less than 1 point. The Phelps family car powered by a 1440cc Suzuki Hayabusa, piloted by Adam, his sister Charlotte, and father John. Adam consistently put on great displays of his talent, often beating specialist single seat race cars. A worthy champion! And with that, the list is complete as of now. If there is any more information that people want to add or correct, let me know, and if there are any period images of the cars that don't have ones, please send me them via a message so that I can add them.

Evening all, Are we there yet .......... it seems so. Big Congratulations to Adam Phelps as the 2023 Championship winner (obviously subject to any problems). It was a lovely weekend so a great way to end the season - roll on 2024 🙂 Results for you to check and scrutinise lol Anglesey (R23) - Sat Results Anglesey (R24) - Sun Results Tiggs

Well done @John Loudon - Sponsorship Liaison cracking run to get your first run off win, nice to see that the smaller engine cars can stick it to the big boys every now and then, fingers crossed for the remainder of the season and you end up with that top 5 finish.

God that makes me feel old. Brilliant work Alex !!

Hmmmm looks like it’s just @Greenstreak-Andy D then. Whilst I am fighting fit the rest of the household are all down and apparently can’t survive a few hours alone.

Unfortunately, I came down with cold/flu too, so will have to give tonight a miss and spare everyone my germs.

Sadly, I'm full of cold and I'm not sharing! Have a great night, all!