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Amazing turnout @Ian Kinder (Bagpuss) - Joint Peak District AO! We managed nine with no photoshop 😂

Wow, what great night and great attendance! Whatsapp live location being used to assist the convoy from Stoke ( @Russ Bridgewater, @David lear & @David Bennett) and picking up new member @andyjs on our way- A quick stop in Talke as we were early- @David Bennett's great Zenos E10S- The golden Pheasant Carpark was busy, preventing us getting all the cars nicely in a row- I count 13 @Rob Hunter - Club Secretary

Sorry for the poor pic, don’t see many of these on the road.

Not us ☹️ working and then on airport taxi service for family 🙄 have fun and see you soon A&B Oh and I’ve got to clean the car !!! woodworking creates a lot of dust 🫣

Meet at The Great British Car Journey, DE56 2HE for their car meet which starts at 10am and costs £5 per car to enter. Everyone is welcome, there will be lots of cars on show and the Filling Station cafe will be open for refreshments too. There will be a run out afterwards for members. Who is coming? https://greatbritishcarjourney.com/great-british-car-meets/

Warning do not wear Purple trainers! @Roger Allton

@AndrewBClarke the dodgy plumbing is at the father in laws pre war house 😵‍💫 all mine is good , it’s all nice and new as I stripped out all that old stuff you old boys use 🤣

What a beautiful evening for a meet! This was my 3rd test drive of my new ITB's so had left early to properly stretched her legs on the local B roads. I'd just pulled up when Glynn landed in his newly upgraded car making whooshy noises! The gorgeous fully forged Mazda 1.8 with a big snail. My new ITB install. Over the next 20 minutes we were joined by Steve and Gavin in convoy, quickly followed by James (at his first pub meet), Dan and Matt. James owns the lovely yellow MX5 engined car we had spotted at Curborough at the weekend so was great to finally meet in person! Emma, Howard, Alex, Iain, Hedley, Martyn, Dom and Ben had also come along in their tintops. Shortly after Claire and Joolz pulled in sporting huge grins after Claire's recent trackday at Donington. Sounds like you had fun!! As we were chatting, we get the amazing sight of a Westfield XI pulling in! Roger had come along to his first meet in his beautiful BRG A series engined car. Most of us had spent that long in the car park we missed out on food when we eventually got into the pub! 😂 Later we were also joined by Mark, our third pub meet newbie who had recently sampled the Peaks meets with Julie. As usual we had loads of upgrade talk. Iain is in the middle of an engine swap (that a few of us are helping with), James is collecting parts to supercharge his MX5 engine and Mark is already itching for a bit more power from his ITB'd Zetec. Malvern was a big topic of conversation, seems we have load of locals going along and quite a few volunteers. Excitement is definitely building! Lovely to see everyone, hope you all got home safely. Also, great to meet James, Mark and Roger, hope you enjoyed the evening and that we made you feel welcome 👍

Firstly, how many of you have owned, then sold your Westfield, to then regret it and then up buying another one further down the line? You see, I'm fickle and an impulse purchaser of many different things in my life and my Westfield was no exception to that. 2 years ago I woke up on a Saturday morning and completely out of the blue and thought to myself. I wouldn't mind owning one of those Westfield's and the following week I bought the one I have now. I few other examples of past purchase history impulse buying. I had a lovely Mercedes, I really liked it and I took it in for it's service. On the way to the service counter I passed another one which looked nice, 2 hours later and I'm now the owner of different but perfectly nice Mercedes. Several years ago a friend of mine had a Jaguar XKR, he took me out in it, he turned the TC off, I strongly advised him not to do it and well. We ended up in a tree, the car was smashed to bits, BUT the car was brillent (before he put it head on into a tree of course)! Two weeks later I bought one myself for a weekend car. Supercharged V8 through a stainless steel system was such an amazing sound. My wife loved that car too, especially when she was heavily pregnant, because to drive, it was such a nice car for her to get in and out of and with loads of room. More recently (Aug 23) I woke up one morning at 04:30am, decided I wanted to buy a Mazda MX5 for the track and by 07:15am I was at a chaps house and now the the new owner of it. And just like all the many impulse purchases in my life, I got bored and sold them. The MX5 went last month, I did a few trackdays and got bored. The Westfield has lasted a while for me and I'm not......'bored' I just get itchy feet. I've driven it loads! That's another side to my personality, I get into something (whatever it is) and I just absolutely go full beans addictive at it. If I got into knitting, I'd make everyone on this forum a jumper within a week! It's a fantastic car, drives lovely, it's an absolute head turner and if I'm honest, I really like the attention and it sounds great too. Plus, I love the social side that it's offered, I've met some fantastic people and I've now got some great friends too. I'm not sure if I want to try something else for a while, but not entirely sure what. But this could be one I regret selling if I did sell it. So, back to my first line. Who's regretted and bought again?

Very little progress to report! I have successfully opened the box, examined all parts and bought the correct red colour paint, but actual construction hasn’t commenced yet. In my defence, my son has started building a hornby model railway and he’s roped me into helping with that over the last few months

Hope to be there!

OK post closed - phone purchased, going for a lie down was quite a shock to pay that much for a phone , lol. Arriving tomorrow it says. Apple iPhone 15 (128 GB) - Blue .

Maybe you could now do some plumbing. All the spray out of your joints could clean your car!!

Better than the alternative though!

Hopefully be there👍

Nope. Sorry. Going to Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre open day to see the first Lancaster Taxi run of the year and Spitfire fly past.

If it's decent weather I may well have a run up. Closest Peak District meeting point to me by far!

Don't feel bad @Paul Baker, my son bought me a 'build your own V8' model engine with moving parts about 5 years ago. It's still in its box unopened 😂

What the heck is going on there? At first I thought it was some wicked paint job 😂

In an incredible act of automotive sleuthing 🕵️‍😉, I tracked down an oil leak which was from one connection to my oil cooler. After an equally fine piece of diagnosis at our meet last night, Malcolm @Wessex pronounced ‘Stu, your oil cooler is f****d!’ 🤣 ‘Nuff said, replacement ordered and hopefully will be fitted this weekend so I’m up and running again.

Bought one in 1994, owned it for about 14 years, crashed it, sold it to a mate who did it up and he owned it for about 14 years. When he wanted to sell it, I couldn’t bear to see it likely disappear to France so I bought it back a year or so ago. Won’t be selling it again 🤪. It will hopefully go to my son when I am too decrepit to drive it!

The car is now registered and on the road as a 24 plate I'll try to get my son to put up some photos over the next few days so £14,400 ONO if anyone's interested. Barry

No it wasn't @corsechris, it was that nobody had continued to add new science stuff, during my er "time off". I don't mind posting stuff, was watching a few last night. I don't pretend to understand even a quarter of what's being said, but I always get a small bit of info that helps me with the next one one the same subject. I am a "hands on" guy not an academic one, but fascinated by what's being discovered.

I think it was probably my last post that did it. I seem to have a knack for killing threads stone dead

Probably not but hoping the Megabusa will tick all the boxes for sometime to come 😁

Funny you should say that about intuition , I thought it was just me being used to Apple's way of doing things over what an Android based one does. It reminds me a bit like the the change from Windows to Linux. I stuck with Windows in the end. Going to see what refurb ones are out there then today, although I have bought cars that were less expensive, LOL.

You just need to delete the images you fon't wish to be posted from the bottom, by clicking on the crosses as shown here-

I’ve just changed from an 8 to 15pro and the difference is huge. Apps run faster, camera is better, battery life is 4x as good. being Apple the user interface is exactly the same and all my apps, photos and passwords transferred across from the old phone in a matter of minutes. no negatives as far as I’m concerned

Thanks to @Westie66, @Ian Kinder (Bagpuss) - Joint Peak District AO and @Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Chairman last night for my small ecu update. Everything still working as expected 👍 Good to see so many cars out last night and fun chats See you soon

Yes, the forum software assumes you want to insert the photo, so does it for you.

Final Results- Cheshire: 13 Derby: 9 😃

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If you are going from a 6 the difference will be huge. It will be so much faster, more responsive, nicer screen, better battery life, massively better camera and more. I’d suggest getting a genuine Apple refurbished 14 or 15 though. It will save you quite a few quid and any iPhone from a 12 up will be so much better than a 6. I have a 13 pro max and not looking to upgrade yet as it’s excellent as it is. Might upgrade when it gets to 3 or 4 years old though. I like the bigger screen and longer battery life of the “max” range.

Very true.

That's about the only Westfield I'd consider building these days, too old to be rolling around on a garage floor

I never did fully complete mine, its still in a cupboard somewhere, the full size item kind of needed sorting out first, lol. . Love your 3D scan as well, not sure a scanner could handle my scan, mind you being built like a match stick I would not use much of a roll... This appears to be my last posted image, it fell from here and broke the upright , it wasn't finish as I still wanted to make a removeable soft top which I started but never finished.

I really hope you guys are going to get into double figures with Westie's in the Carpark tonight or do you need the Cheshire and North Staffs Rabble to come over and help ? 😉 I've managed to pull together a 5 car convoy from Stoke for tonight's run to the Cheshire meet & if we start struggling for car numbers, we may start counting cylinders 😉

Just to close this thread off, it did indeed appear that their website threw a wobbly when it said failed, but now I have a green box on the checker website - yay. Matter closed.

Modern have Independent too. But I have read in that time Westfield need to do sth different to be different . And did that in good direction. MNR well I have to like it as I am building one but its not so smile realase desingn as Westfield's. Not metion so helpfull and friendly community as for Westfields! I am proud to have WSCC stickers on Westfields. And - You look at Westfield and just smile ! I love that topic just too look at all that cars . Powerfull antidepressant

After sometime away in others kits am back in a Westy and a model I have always wanted 😀

Oh yes, what a machine! Not that I'm biased at all! 😂

Just an apology for absence really, some ( but not all) are aware I have mental health issues, well it hit me again and only this last few days/weeks have I begun to engage with the world again ( sounds stupid but that's how it is) I need to be somewhere that I am familiar with again, and here is really were I should belong. So expect more mayhem from me , lots of car changes have happened since I was last on here and I will post those as and when . catch you around folks. Regards Richard.

Today's trip around

Bagpuss is ready

Nice run out with my Caterham buddy

I had the same dilemma, had the 15" TD 1.2's initially. Due to my mahoosive brakes, I went for the Caterham Apollo's in 6" front and 8" rear. I've two sets now (black and silver), not cheap but very light.

MOT done. Now for some nice weather.

In a local pub car park while out for lunch this week…

Hi Stan. I am selling my Westfield SEFW registered last year, 15 month build by myself and my son. 2litre zetec on standard induction so 150bhp. Tuned and geo setup by Northampton Motor Sport. Please pm me for further details or call on 07584 483061. Thanks, Mark