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Here’s a couple of pics from me 😎 a fantastic run led by Andrew, great to meet friends old and new 👍

Phew - just scraped under that bridge….

Overlooking Rudyard lake today.

Thanks to @AndrewBClarke for arrange some great roads for us. Thanks also for all who turned up for the usual great company. I met @Tony H in his lovely red Mev, just a few miles from home for a nice cool morning air run to the start at McD. We were greated by @Jakejmagee and some newly aquired biker friends of his. A few pics from me.

just back from a lovely sunny evening run trying out my 4 year old grandsons new booster seat he loves going out in the meg says its his favourite toy.

We had a brilliant outing this morning, great weather and great company. I counted 12 cars in total, with 6 Westfields, 2 GTMs, a V-Storm, a Lotus, a Ford Capri and a Robin Hood. We kicked off with the early meet at the Cross Hands pub just north of Bristol and it turned into an impromptu takeover of their car park. Kirk had the longest journey there, travelling over from South Wales and we gradually joined him and lined everyone up. We were then joined by some other enthusiasts over the other side of the car park who must have had the same idea. We went to say hello and looked at two more Capris, an Opel Manta, a Rover Coupe and a beautiful Porsche which I'd love to have learnt more about if we'd had the time. Then we set off and had a great run down to Five Zeros Supercars at Bradford on Avon. It was a lot of fun leading the convoy and we managed to stay together! Roads were reasonably quiet so a nice drive. We arrived and lined up alongside Gary's Robin Hood and it didn't take long for the car park to be packed. It was Aston Martin weekend and the glorious weather was obviously encouraging everyone to come out. And it did make me laugh that our three yellow cars stuck together! We enjoyed a breakfast bap or two, had a nice catch up with everyone and looked at some great machines. When we eventually drifted away, Peter led some of us on a tour up northwards via Castle Combe. Peter's Fireblade is rapid and Flying Carrot Steve was flying after him in his turbo, the pair of them were out of sight at the end. A great blat to finish the morning. Thanks to everyone who came out to play. Looking forward to the next one already.

Thank you @AndrewBClarke for taking us out today while @Julie Hall - WSCC AO Representative is off enjoying herself . Today we discovered we don’t own a Westfield but a time travelling vehicle 🤔 after a few years in the re-making @Martyn Vann - Warwickshire AO is back in the fold 😎 great to see you both with smiles on your faces ,and we’re back to having a buddy to drive up to the peaks with. See you all soon Andy & Becky up Wynats pass it wasn’t too busy the back roads ( somewhere! ) the red car back on the road

Met up with Thunderbird 2 for a picnic at Turweston aerodrome.

On the way home I stopped off at Baffle Haus and South Wales Aviation Museum. It’ll be worth having a breakfast meet at Baffle haus (old post) and then it’s 15-20 minutes to S.W.A.M.

Thanks for organising it, it was a good day out, well worth the trip over.

Further to discussion with Tony ( @DamperMan) and @Maurici- CleaR Motorsport I wound the perches down two full turns on both sides and stiffened the shocks up to 9 clicks. I drove it 30 or so miles to the Cheshire meet on Thu night like this. The banging was reduced in frequency and intensity over some of our poor quality roads but the ride stiffness was harder and I'd not want to run like this normally. It would be fine on track. I dropped the shocks to 0 clicks on the carpark at the Golden Pheasant and demonstrated the knocking to @Greenstreak-Andy D who agreed it was likely the dampers in full extension. I wound the clicks up to 5 for the journey hold and it was crash and bang city all the way. Yesterday morning, I've reset my front to 140mm and rear to 165mm (chassis rail not lowered floor) with my weight in the car and set the rear shocks to 6 clicks up (front are at 5 clicks up). This is how I've ran since originally fitting the Spax in Nov 2022. A short 15 mile test drive confirmed all the be wonderful and no more knocking. clearly I've undone all @Maurici- CleaR Motorsport good work with the corner weighting, however it was always an experiment for me with my mobile laboratory. I enjoy it. Some experiments work, some don't. I'm just home from a great 100 mile trip round the peaks with approx 50 of those with a 12 stone passenger and the car has ran fine. no knocks, no bottoming out handled great. @Maurici- CleaR Motorsport has kindly offered to take a look at my corner weights free of charge, so I will revisit in the next few weeks, but I'll not be adjusting the ride height at the rear much higher!

Would be rude not to the 90mile around daily commute when the weathers so nice. Sunny but it was bitter cold 🥶

Afternoon everybody my name is Mark, and I have taken on the role lately of area organiser for the north east. I am hoping to put together along with help of some other members some meets and runs out for members to get involved in through out this year and will hopefully be documenting this throughout. I am looking at starting our local meets again as of Tuesday the 15th of April with the venue being church mouse , Chester moor, chester le street DH2 3RJ 7pm This venue has been used several times in the past so feel it's a good starting point to gauge interest . I am looking forward to hopefully seeing some you northeast lads there and seeing if we can hopefully bring the Westfield/kit car scene back to the north east thanks Mark

I can't tell you how jealous I am of the Derbyshire & Peak District roads and days out! I'm glad you're out enjoying them since I can't 😭

Do my best to attend

I'll try to get along to meet everyone. Mark

Excellent news @Markh80 North East Area Organiser see you there!

Off to test the new air filter cover

On a nice day like this, it would be rude not to. Pint of shandy in the sun🍺🌞