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I always look forward to trips out in my Westy with friends but it doesn't always go to plan! Two hours from home at the start point for a Peak District day out and a flat rear tyre thanks to a screw. @Ian Kinder (Bagpuss) - Joint Peak District AO rummages in his boot to produce an air compressor and re-inflates the trye at regular intervals which enabled me to continue with the day out. Obviously he couldn't follow me on the long trip home, so a call in to @Julie Hall - WSCC AO Representative and Glens and I'm lent a compressor, foot pump etc and after a few stops I got home safely. Next trip out I was presented with my own compressor, donated by @Andy Wallwork, fetched by @Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman)and all organised by @Ian Kinder (Bagpuss) - Joint Peak District AO. What a brilliant club we have where people put themselves out to help. Many thanks to all my Westy friends

A grand day indeed with some cracking weather, the usual great company and @Julie Hall - WSCC AO Representative worked her usual good magic to find mainly quiet roads! @Tony H and his son Cameron, in Tony's lovely red Mev. @Louie Luay, winked at me all the way to breakfast I'm glad I didn't leave home with a clean car and we got plenty of fresh 'produce' from this lot! @Julie Hall - WSCC AO Representative trying her best to fit everyone in! It's great being at the back as you get to see all colours of member's cars as far as the eye can see! We also get a point for diversity and inclusion as we let the Transpeak coach join in too! A great day for Alfresco dining. We line all our cars up for a nice pic and some 'influencer' wants a pic for her Insta! @Tony H wishing he's ordered Scampi! Our route, round the peaks.

Had a fantastic day at Blyton yesterday..loads of cars of all sorts but as always marshals and organisation was great really good on getting the blue flags out plus plenty of black flags for drivers who were not being sensible... Car ran really well and the new Spax dampers and slightly uprated springs really helped the car stop rolling so much.. got a bit of temperature into the Kumho caravan tyres and they behaved well.. Since my last visit in 2024 Ginetta have invested in some new buildings including great new toilet and shower block to make this a really fun place to go.

Here’s my SE, competing in the British autotest championship at Shelsley Walsh on Saturday. 200 mile drive down, a day skidding around and a 200mile faultless drive home

Great drive out this morning though a tad chilly over the top of the Peaks, very nice venue for a meet up breakfast was good, nice to catchup with people. Hope you all enjoyed your onward drive into the Peaks. Photo dump below, sorry if i missed anyone, those yellow cars do look good

Woohoo, I got the engine back together and in the car into time for driveit day! There's nothing quite like going on a 110 mile round trip to test it all out.

A Gold Standard day out for the Peak District Crew, very jealous!!

I collected the XI from 'Classic Collective Bicester' yesterday, and Simeon showed me around some lovely cars in their workshop. It was an enjoyable 80 mile meandering drive back home.

Nice 130 miles, breaky with the Kent guys this morning at the Stag. See you all next month

Road Westfield after today’s ride, parked next to my track Alfa 156 CUP (an original car from the Alfa Romeo 156 Cup racing series in Poland in the early 2000s, one of around 30 cars built for that series - a real rarity). It turns out the Westfield isn’t quite as tiny compared to a proper race car as it seems when parked next to modern, truck-like SUVs at the supermarket

Pleased you also got back safely today.

What a fantastic community! Glad you got home safely

Possibly.

You need to come back earlier

Can't make this one @Martyn Vann - Warwickshire AO as will just be getting back from holidays

We are intending to be there!

Have a great day @Alex Gaskin & @Michael8

Please put me down and I'll bring a guest (work colleague).

An eventful day starting early with a kamikaze pigeon trying to remove a cycle wing. You may have to zoom in to see the white dusty outline of the impact. Parked next to the rubbish pile just out of shot on the left of the cars. Steve and David chatting over David's car. Steve's car after some after some other visitors had photo's taken in and around it. As we got ready to leave we spotted Fuzz Townsend around the cars and buses! The easy run to Revs became a nightmare as we tried to skirt around Stratford only to find road closures for a half-marathon. This forced the increased vehicle numbers through the town centre. We got separated from Steve in the very heavy traffic and ended going different directions to the destination. Tony and Angela were waiting for us at Revs together with masses of motorcycles. NB the photos were done after the bikes had gone. The journey home was fine to begin with as we set off along the Fosse and onto the A429. The first leave the convoy were Tony and Angela peeling off for home. Shortly afterwards Steve also headed for home, leaving us to continue past the Falcon at Hatton on our way home. Unfortunately, as we passed Coleshill the alternator gave up again. It seems like I'm averaging 200 mile per alternator!!!

And a Good Morning to you too Our car Inside Cupola Inside Cupola Breakfast at Cupola Parked at Cupola, just missing Martin in the line up, who was unfortunately stuck in traffic, making 14 cars. After meeting at Cupola, where the owner had saved us a designated parking spot, off we went on the quiet roads far away from the tourist hotspots. We were having lots of fun and doing great all the way, even could see that we were up for a clear run up the Crowdecote road, licking my lips, getting excited and p**f! a flippin' campervan had just pulled out from a little side road ahead, so we had a slow but scenic ride up. It soon turned off and we were back in action on the little used road behind Hartington, then the last mile we followed an enormous tractor run with zero chance of overtaking. We arrived at the Jug and Glass in a very relaxed state, Luay, @Louie checked his fuel gauge. Dave and Ian gathered around a cardboard box We do some weird things don't we . Here we are all parked up. Oh then it was surprise time, Chris had finally bought a Morgan after carefully taking his time to find the right one and he pulled into the car park with a MASSIVE grin on his face. Well done Chris, living life and making it happen, some people take the easy route and just give in and don't bother. One very happy man and we were absolutley delighted to see him and his car Next was lunch because we were hungry after all that breakfast!! It was no hardship to sit outside and we thanked the staff for their excellent food and service. We will be returning here as it was great and we were made very welcome. Jug and Glass car park Lunch at the Jug and Glass, cheeky monkey @Ian Kinder (Bagpuss) - Joint Peak District AO After lunch Lee decided it was time to change his clutch cable with the help of Glynn, you might recognise Glynn, he's the one that seems to spend a lot of time bent over It was glorious weather and we needed cake, with Hulme End Tea Junction only a few miles down the road we decided to carry on. On arrival Lee checked his car out and all was good. Parked at Hulme End @AndrewBClarke took position of @Andy Westwood and got the largest jam and cream scone We enjoyed the sunshine for a while longer before heading home A fantastic day out so thank you to everyone for joining us. Next weekend is Dave's visit to the Vulcan Bomber and photoshoot on Bank Holiday Monday, don't miss it!! I am working 6-10am and can't make it so if you can then you must, you won't regret it. If you have enjoyed your day out or just enjoyed reading this and you like the club, I am sorry to remind you that it only exsits WITH a committee. Chair and Secretary positions are available and we can't function without them being filled, think about that. Seriousness over with, back to being daft, bottoms up everyone, love you all and see you next time XXX

Thanks for yet another great day out Julie & Glen. Lovely choices of venues for rest stops, stunning roads and plenty of lovely views, and for once time to admire them. Only a couple of pics but it should give peeps an idea of how Julie’s fun days out go…

Another fantastic Peaky run out, with great food and great company! @Chris Emm’s newly bought Morgan is stunning, too!

Thank you @Julie Hall - WSCC AO Representative and Glen for another great day in the Peaks.

It's just glorious out there today. Hope you've all had fun!

Let me check my dimensions Chris

I'm similar to Si, would like to join but won't realy know untill the Sunday.

Many happy returns Alex. Hope you are having a great day, from Mr & Mrs H.