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Dolomites with @Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Chairman & @Stu Faulkner

Driving holiday in france, stayed at a chataeu on the banks of the Loire yesterday before driving west into Brittany today

Some scumbag or group of scumbags (collective noun, anyone?) using a VPN decided to do a spam attack on the boardroom at lunchtime today, with about 15 different accounts (so far) signing up and immediately dropping spam posts around the board in about 20 minutes. As a consequence, I’ve had to go backstage, ban each account and ramp up the security settings so that Admins have to approve new accounts before they become active. This may inconvenience new genuine members for the time being, but it will stop the spam post flurry and I’ll do my best to stay on top of it.

Cheers!

Thanks Scott As you know I am on holiday so really appreciate you stepping in here 👍

Always wanted one of these, and now I have… Sort of…

The usual way to go about it is start with a mild cutting polish first (Mer or T cut comes to mind). It that doesn't work try a G3 cutting compound. No need to buy any modern fancy and expensive products, the old methods work just as good. Need the DA sander moving and don't press hard is the way to remove swirls, also clean of the compounds regularly with a clean damp micro fibre cloth. Take your time for best results.

It was just supposed to say ‘they’

Yes aparantley the chim is a better tourer, ive not driven a griff personally. Its certainly very comfortable and you can easily do some miles in it, the boot is massive too. Some of the potential bills with the speed 6 and ajp engined cars would put me off too personally, also to me the ly dont really feel like a car that wants to be driven hard and the chassis are very similar to the earlier cars like mine. As mentioned they seem to be happiest just cruising with the occasional prod. Its not the sort of car you screech round corners in hard on the brakes ect.

Thanks for the help from afar and I’m not in the slightest bit jealous of your current location. No sir, not one little bit… 😢

@Flying Carrot Steve they are really good to drive, a lovely summer cruiser to just enjoy and have a little prod of the torque every now and then.

Thirsty work all this touring….

Yes that would have been us, thought we might miss the rain, at least it gave the motor a bit of a clean...

Absolutely right ^^^^ A rear end damage as your photo could have involved more on your Westie than first seen. The only way to check is to remove bodywork to see. Please DONT until it has passed the insurance assessment. They may send an engineer out. If it looks like it has had partial removal of parts it may give problems down the line. I say this as you mentioned how badly the other vehicle faired! very frustrating and sad. I am sure she will be repaired but don’t rush into it. Andy

No problem thanks for confirming

Few photos of the cars lined up in the underground carpark.

All lined up and drying out 😁

Having tried this once, see here…. I thought I could improve on it if I tried again. Main problem was it was a little too high, reducing the gap between steering wheel and my somewhat sizeable thighs, and also the back support wasn’t great. I could do a much better job with a second pair of hands, but that’s not possible currently, so this is where I am. Having been reassured last time that pouring the whole lot in one go wouldn’t fill the garage with foam, I went for it! I taped the bag up as high as it would go, to cope with any overfill, and poured it all in. Sparing you all the detail, it basically went well, filling up behind my back and around my shoulders very well, although ironically this time leaving a bare patch under my bum which I couldn’t manage to fill. At least I was low enough this time! I trimmed up the excess from the top and sides, cut the hole for the harness, put some foam over the bare patch, glued it to a thin piece of ply to give it some rigidity and then taped the whole thing up. Finally, I added some vinyl to make it look a little better. Beautiful it still isn’t, but it probably looks a bit better than the last one. More importantly it sits me lower in the car, giving me better clearance between wheel, hands and knees, and also has better shoulder support. You can see from the shoulder width that I’m not really built for a narrow Westfield 🤣. Having seen @Andrzejseat with the narrow shoulder support, I simply wouldn’t fit in there! So, I think this one will do me for a while, it’s comfy and secure, and gives me a better position than the previous version.

You can't beat a drive in the English countryside on a warm sunny day in an open top car 🙂😎 🌞.

Carbon zk nose Put some graft into this in the last 48 hours but the tooling is now complete! These are a mega style nose which have a deeper lower section to accommodate a oil cooler these fit in an identical way to a standard Zk nose Normally sketch with me Prepreg so light and strong this one in the picture has been clear coated but available uncoated for the more serious peddler who is looking to save every gram .