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  1. Hi guys, while I realise this is a very late reply I found this thread most helpful about six months ago, Therefore I thought I'd weigh in with my resent experience. I bought my first and only Westfield several years ago cat c damaged from HBC salvage, realising that they could be wrongly registered and the logbook wouldnt be available as most of you know until being repaired and VIC checked. I decided it was cheep enough and even though it was on a 1972 reg how could it be registered wrong if the insurance has payed out on it, wrongly so.... last year after DVLA changed there policy and no longer needing a VIC check, now just simply re-apply for the logbook. Wich I did shocked and horrified to find it was registered as a ford yeah... just a ford, That brought me to reading this thread which encouraged and gave me hope to get on the phone to DVLA, after several lengthy conversations with them a certificate of origin from Westfield and a pencil rubbing of my chassis number they agreed to change the name on my logbook to westfield SEIW the date of first registration is still 1972 and it's still a L plate tax and M.O.T exempt but they changed the year of manufacture to 1998 wich is when the westy was built. I found the lady at DVLA most helpful and she wanted it registered correctly just as much as me when she did some digging in the cars registered history it had been as a few things in the past, fireblade serria 4x4 amazing what people do! Thankfully it's all sorted thanks to you guys. Young knocker
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  2. I know it's going to be a bit "Marmite", but I needed to replace the seats after my big brother managed to split one. I got in touch with Neil at Kit Cars Direct and asked him the leadtime on a pair. "I've got two orange seats you could have today" and he's never seen my car. Couldn't resist.
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  3. I hope it’s on the tele, wouldn’t want to miss that
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  4. I have for sale a Suzuki GSXR 1000 K6 engine package for sale. Bought as a spare for the Jedi but never used. It came from a bike which I saw running before it was removed and had no rattles or blue smoke when run. Includes the loom, Ecu , throttle boddies, bike clocks oil cooler etc. It is still as it was when removed so needs a clean up but other than that an ideal package as a spare or BEC conversion. For the asking price I can include a shallow wet sump also. A dry sump could also be available by separate negotiation. Located in Blackpool. £2100:00
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  5. Update on attendees: Kev P x2 Bernie Tim Mike Dean Kev T Barry Ian Brian & Graham RJC (Rich) and possibly Dave Josh Ken Rob (spectator) Nick Met office weather forecast is 10-20% chance of rain up until 16.00 when it increases to 60%. See you all there.
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  6. What a great success story and even better to hear common sense being applied at DVLA given some of the challenges with SVA etc! Thanks for updating the thread @Young knocker 1992
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  7. Due to open in April 2020, a new car museum is being built in Derbyshire, it is located approx a 15 minute drive South of where we meet for the Peak District runs in Matlock. It will include a display of 100 cars and there will be a 'Drive Dad's Car' driving experience along a mile long route. The exhibition will be called 'The Great British Car Journey - when Britain ruled the road' A decked seating area will overlook the river Derwent and there will be a cafe, gift shop and workshop on site, with parking provided for 65 cars. I will be proud to take my British Westfield to this place. Glen hopes there will be a Westfield included in the driving experience and he might actually get to drive one!!!
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  8. Interesting that the game with big butch men in shorts has been cancelled but the F1 hasn’t. At least with this trip now on Saturday, I can watch Lewis Hamilton getting nearer to being a 6x world champion on Sunday!!
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  10. Count me in. Remember you can’t trust Keely Donovan - she’s a wrong un.
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  11. Hi Julie If the weather stays good hopefully I'll be there Saturday. Minus Sue as she has other stuff to do.
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  12. keely Donavan is such a sex weather god and worthy of mucking my car up if she gets it wrong
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  13. Tel’s Tales Ty Croes, Anglesey 5th/6th Oct 2019 As has become usual, drivers headed to the Island of Anglesey for the final weekend of the year run by our friends at Longton and District Motor Club. Many of us like to arrive early on the Friday afternoon to beat the traffic and get settled in place with electric hook ups in the paddock. As we had to wait to get into the paddock due to a “private testing event” we were queued and parked up on a part of the old circuit close to Radar bend complex on the straight to the original hairpin and that brought back memories for quite a few of us. The journey to the event took a bit longer than usual as there was a long section of contraflow on the A55 and it was the Rally Wales near Conway. I think Steve Arkley had the longest journey travelling from Elgin, Scotland which is around 485miles each way! The weekend would finalise who had won what but also threatened some horrible wet and windy weather but luckily most of that was during the night and we had a great weekend of motorsport. As well as the Westfield classes and championship there were the class J2 single seaters battling for points in the British Sprint Championship including Pete Goulding, Steve Broughton, John Loudon and Mark Anson. A bonus was that we could get scrutineered and sign on Friday evening so we all started queuing up. Just you just love it when some plonker thinks the queue is not neede and just pushes in. Well guess what it was. A b….y cateringvan who seemed oblivious to the glares he was getting from the rest of us. Then something even worse happened. Another car tagged along behind him thinking it was a good move but he did get a bit of verbal abuse and ignored it. The sad thing was that it turned out to be one of our own clan by the name of MARK BISHOP. Saturday practice ( just 1) started with it being a cold dry day and poor grip on the track but we all seemed to get round without any damage or embarrassment.. Towards the end of practice a well known Darrian failed on the circuit and deposited a line of oil over about 60 percent of the track so T1 was going to interesting for everyone as we found our way past the long line of cement dust. The start line all weekend and 64ft times were very poor and most of us were well off the Target Times. T1 stayed mainly dry with a bit of drizzle later on In the afternoon there were a few spins after the finish line as people pushed the limits of adhesion on a cold track. As we have seen all season John Hoyle was going very quickly and after 4 timed runs John broke the record and myself , Ian Davenport and Howard Gaskin won our classes on the day. Heavy rain overnight followed a well attended meal and drinks in the bar which ended late. Sunday was the International circuit and P1 was very damp and slippy which always makes a few corners quite interesting at high speed. Today we had Chris Griffiths and Nick Bailey joining us for another great day of competition. Del and Garry were coming into their element with massive power, launch control and traction helping. Troy and Chris were in the garage with them and we saw Stephen and sally Herbert as well as Paul Aspden and Jill wandering around. The British Sprint guys were pushing hard for maximum points at this last event that settled their positions. Nick Algar’s engine blew up and Pete Goulding was rewarded with a final year end 2ndplace and John Loudon was 12th. Matt Hillam, Steve Broughton and Mark Anson also finished well. Sunday saw Chris Griffiths blasting round in his Millington Diamond engine car and John Hoyle making us all look slow. Garry Bunn aslo broke the class H record. In the end we had similar class successes and had a thoroughly entertaining weekend that was run brilliantly by LDMC So now we know the results we just you all to get your tickets for the Awards do on 30thNov 2019. There will be a raffle and auction of some great prizes that are being donated by our sponsors and drivers for the “MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION” which helps critically ill children. Next year’s Regs are currently being drafted and the list of events compiled and we hope to attract new drivers as well as retain the existing mob! Terry Everall
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  14. Shame that the picture depicts a Lotus 7.The thought was good
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  15. Can't believe the amount of cow **** on my car after a couple of hours around the roads of North Wales this afternoon
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  16. Are you thinking about driving at night Kev?😂
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  17. I may have a set, let me check
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  18. If I can get a new engine in Lionel this weekend....
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  19. Please note that at the Dinner we will be holding a raffle/auction to raise money for the "MAKE A WISH" foundation which creates life changing wishes for children with critical illnesses. I would therefore appreciate and prizes people might donate such as chocs, wine, vouchers, toiletries or anything else appropriate. To see what the foundation does you can visit https://www.make-a-wish.org.uk/about-us/what-we-do/ Please get them to me or hand them over at the start of the evening. Let's hope we can raise a lot for this worthy cause.
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  20. Is it not more the cows rather than the farmers? Or do the farmers do monster turds on the roads down in Wales?
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  21. Some great looking cars 👌 Here's a few ones from me...
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  22. Sorry couldn’t spend the day playing out, but what a fantastic start to the day, some great roads to and from the meet, good brekkie and great friends! Thanks for organising, Julie.
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  23. Decided to have a go at putting some stripes on my car, did it over a couple rainy days, so had a spin out yesterday to test them. They seem to work, either that or it was the effect of cold air, dry roads and being cooped up for a couple of days. Gary
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  24. Sounds like fun Ian! The reason for my suggestion is that people can either fail to read all the threads or be geographically ignorant, so a map with pins is the proverbial picture that paints a thousand words and assists with impulse ideas. It's not meant to be used as a sat nav aid. It's a bit like the local area map showing the local area meets, so members can see where all the meets are and encourage them to go to other ones, not just their own. Anyway, it's just an idea, adopt it or drown it as you wish.
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