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Hi Members! WSCC will be attending the Newark Kit Car Festival Sat 21st / Sun 22nd September 2024 at Newark Showground NG24 2NY What to expect? Lots of kit cars, Lots of Manufacturers, WSCC Gazeebo, Westfield Avenue, cake(s), bonnets off, mystery WSCC gift, WSCC racing SIM, beer, camping, snoring and hopefully good weather. https://newarkkitcarfestival.co.uk/ Camping is available from midday Friday 20th September and a few of us will be going on Friday to set up the club pitch. If you want to assist please shout up and it will be much appreciated, otherwise hopefully see lots of club members over the weekend.

I find it difficult to take the town of Newark seriously after someone pointed out to me that Newark is an anagram of W⚓️.

I've posted on the FB Social site also @Marcus Barlow - Show and Events Co-ordinator

No it's not a typo, it's the name we've given to our version of the NC500. My friends and I have done the NC500 or our NC250 route every year for the past 8 years and varied the route and stops to suit. Its only just up the road so would be rude not to. This year due to it being midweek it was only the two of us, me and my mate in his MK Indy. Our route on day one took us from home and up a short section of the A9 where we cut off for Crieff and fun began. We then headed up to Dunkeld for a quick pit stop. We were interrogated by some American tourists who were impressed we had Miata and Ford engines. We then headed into the Cairngorms via the A93 through Glenshee to the ski centre. It's a fantastic road and we had a clear run up. We stopped in Braemar for lunch. Not here though, far too expensive, went to the tea room next door. Our route then took us past Balmoral Castle, where we took some single track towards Corgarff Castle and the Lecht ski centre. Again brilliant roads with little traffic to hold us up. Then onto Tomintoul and Grantown on Spey, pretty sure this is always the first road to be closed by snow every year. Then onto our overnight at Inverness via Nairn and a stop at Fort George, but the dolphins weren't out to play. All tucked up. Day 2 promised to be better weather and no hoods. We crossed the Kessock bridge, then the Cromarty bridge heading in land towards Bonar Bridge. viewpoint for the Dornoch Firth and bridge in the distance. Always one of my favourite views of the whole route, never fails to impress. Bonar Bridge in the distance. Thankfully never needed these guys... Our Airbnb in Lairg was a bit too bijou, even if it was on a private island. So we gave it a miss and continued North towards Altnaharra and Tongue. This is where the roads turn to single track, but you often get a good view ahead and can open to car up a bit. This wind farm wasn't there the last time we past here about 3 years ago. Apparently at times we make five time the electricity we use. So why aren't my bills coming down! Stopped at Tongue for lunch and cake. For once it wasn't raining here, we've been soaked often before. After lunch we continued West towards Durness and the Smoo cave. Loch Eribol was picturesque as always. You drive along one side to its end and then 10mins later your driving along the other side you had just been looking at. We topped up our tanks and chocolate supplies at Durness. We also spoke to a couple of bikers from the Netherlands whom we'd past a few times at passing places. Really nice guys who were over on the DFDS ferry for 10 days. Then onto Kylesku for the obligatory pictures. The car park was busy and the cars got lots of attention, one woman even sat in my drivers seat. This year we stayed at the Gairloch Hotel and this was my view, nice eh. Day 3 was forecast to be wet and it didn't disappoint! Although it was raining it didn't damped or spirits as we knew we had some fantastic roads and views ahead. We continued down through Torridon to Shieldaig and the only advantage of the rain was the roads were quiet. Shame Calum the deer is no longer there. This year our route took us on a new road to the base of the Bealach na Ba and not the usual Applecross loop. Again we stopped for the obligatory picture at the Bealach sign and contemplated our next move. The rain was heavy and the mist pretty much covered the mountain, but we had planned to go up and back down the pass, so that's just what we did. The video shows how extreme it was, wind and rain blowing right through the cars! There is a fantastic cafe next to the sign and is highly recommended. After a quick brunch we headed south towards Plockton via Lochcarron. After Plockton we had planned to jump onto Skye and then catch the Glenelg ferry back off and do the Ratagan pass, however the weather was so bad the ferry was off. So a quick picture on Skye and then head for home, via Fort Willam, Glencoe and Callander. Where we hit the motorway. My total mileage for the trip. We usually do this trip in September and maybe it didn't pay off weather wise, but we still enjoyed it. The video should give you an idea just how wet it was. Thanks

We will be there!!

No, not at all. I'm just glad that there'll be someone to talk too 😁

Hi @Craigieboy yes there will be Club pitch at the show again this year please see below (and mag) for info 👍 :-

Westfield SEiW. 1997 original factory built car. 1.6 uprated CVH with Ford Type 9 5-speed gearbox. Twin Weber 40s and performance Kent Sports CVH22 fast road camshaft. ITG filters. Fuel Regulator. Sierra rear independent suspension with disc brakes. Uprated adjustable AVO suspension and Capri ventilated front brakes. Braided brake hoses. Professionally dyno set up with paperwork to prove. Mechanically superb with room for further upgrades if desired by the new owner. The car was subject to a detailed refurbishment by my son and I in 2021. There is too much to list here, but includes chassis thoroughly cleaned and re-coated where necessary, new Coolex alloy radiator, new cambelt, new water pump, new alternator, new old stock distributor, carbs refurbished, cylinder head professionally refurbished with new valves. New suspension joints and Westfield supplied bolt kit. Stainless exhaust heat shield. New battery. New stainless steel fixings used throughout. Superb Post Office red body with rare clamshell wings. Red/black interior with adjustable seats. New Westfield carpet set and refurbished dash and interior trim. New hood (never fitted), tonneau cover, side screens and original jack. Lockable boot lid (an expensive Westfield option). Virtually new Toyo Proxies tyres. Desirable and rare Ford Motorsport cam cover. Refurbished Fox 15" alloys. 4 point Luke harnesses. Powder coated rollbar. New VDO gauges incl. rev counter and matching speedo which have both been professionally calibrated. The bodywork has been rubber coated inside to provide protection. This car has had no expense spared on it. I have a folder full of invoices & MOTs dating back to 1998, and the original build manual. The car has an advisory free MoT until June 2025. There are some spares to go with the car if required which include a set of almost new solid camshaft lifters and spare cylinder head. This is a very reluctant but genuine sale (house purchase). More photos/videos available upon request. I am more than happy to discuss what has been done to the car. The price reflects a fraction of what the car cost to get it to its current standard. £9,800. (Was £10,500). The price will not be reduced further. If the car doesn't sell, I will keep it and continue to enjoy it. Located Trowbridge, West Wiltshire. (approx. 1 hour from Swindon or Bristol). Please PM me for contact details.

Interesting video - I had no idea these secret toll roads existed, but I can’t say I’m surprised.

Went to a local multi make car club this evening, furthest I have driven it so far and came back in the dark, another first !

We East Anglians will be there. Might even do a 2 night camp over again after the success of Malvern. Camp carrot 🥕 here we come.

In good company at Brooklands this evening….

Us Us James @Jakejmagee @Big Andy @Oily Steve

Yes after chatting to my barber today I'm thinking along the lines of that size instead of a bigger thing. Transporter, Transit, Vito type size. Maybe LWB and hitop. The big lumps are a pain to park anywhere apparently.

To be honest, despite having been up there pretty much every year since 2018 and twice this year (in the westy and lately the Lotus) I don’t think I have ever actually done the official 500 as there are so many other roads to drive that we prefer.

I’m thinking of doing it in my camper (Vito so nice and small) as it will be nice to see the lovely scenery for a change. Of course I will be pulling over on single track to let others pass unlike the majority we tend to see there 🤬

@Flying Carrot Steve You hire it and I'll do the navigation. Might even do mates rates too...

Thanks David, gone the CBS route do all sorted now. Appreciate your post though. Thank you Andy

Looks like an amazing trip and some great pictures. Brought back lots of memories being up there, sadly not in my Westie. The last time we visited Scotland was just before Christmas, Glenshee didn't look like your picture, was coming back over from Braemar in a blizzard, thankfully in a tintop.

I'll put a pinned post in Local Area Meets, Events & Kit Car Shows as well should have been in there as well TBH apologies

His videos are very good 👍

Brilliant. I did search first before asking, honest 🙄, but couldn't find any mention. Thanks

Nice one. Hopefully you did it the correct way, anticlockwise and not clockwise as per the official route. That way all the best bits are at the end so every mile South the views just keep getting better.

No problem! I just need your lunch orders and payment please.

I did the NC 500 in June this year with my daughter. We were lucky with weather having days with beautiful clear skies. Rain came twice once 17 miles from the next stop and another day where it was very on and off. Will be looking to do it again next year. Scenery is unbelievable!

And don’t forget the road past Loch Maree

I’m sure that’s the steering wheel from my 1970’s pram wheel based wooden pallet go-cart….

yep did that on our NC tour this year 👍 love the Glenshee road 🥰

The Glenshee Ski Centre is great; the chairlifts run even in summer which means that you can do the mountains and even bag yourself a Munro without all that tedious walking up hills

Clare would like to book a place if poss . sharing my car. cheers

Cheers, hopefully it's still darned nice once I've fitted it!

WOT?

This is my install before and after. I think it turned out good, but I am bias 😁

Something to tinker with when I get home from work. Got a tiny rattle and I'm hoping to do track day with plenty WOT.

Some lovely carbon bling

Castle Combe? C'mon give us a clue

Three hours of cleaning later, as I was bored.

Shopping for supplies, and finally found fresh vegetables, after no luck on Wednesday. Oh and was low on beer and coffee beans, so a bit of an urgent trip. Must admit, other than just getting some fresh air, picked the Westfield to use, as I thought the car park would be rammed, and finding space for 5m of Ford pickup can be tricky. Car park surprisingly quiet though. I suppose I should expect it in Waitrose, but how terribly middle class, when facing Armageddon, it’s customers stock pile dishwasher tabs! (Amongst everything else).

Still running her in so out and about in Kent.