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Fresh out the mould! Used a touch too much spray glue so the fabric didn’t slide too easily over itself under vac so a few spots with some bridging, but all in all quite happy 🤙🏽

I arrived at Paul Jnr house today. the house facing his was abandoned when it was just a concrete shell with a roof on. It was then bought and completed to a very high standard, to day I met Kasper from Denmark, the new owner. I will let the photos tell the rest of the story😎 I think it’s fair to say Kasper is into his cars. turn up the volume 😄

Thank you Bob. Yes, I copied and pasted every page in it's entirety directly from the forum (including comments) into a Word document, keeping my text in 'black' and changing club member comments to 'blue'. Tbh, it was an extremely tedious and time consuming process, but I wanted to capture everything. The final couple of pages show the emojis of all the contributors 🙂. After formatting to remove spaces between entries and to get suitable margins, I saved the file to 'pdf' (approximately 94 Mb in size) and sent it off to an internet company be printed. The printing cost less than £100, compared to almost £200 in one of the high street 'specialist' shops.

A hard copy of my 'build diary' was delivered today - all 636 pages of it...! 😬 The result of many evenings of copying/ pasting and formatting.

Took it work today. Drove home in amazing red skys and ahem also kept a few cars honest 🤣

Bonnet under vac, infusing tomorrow 😎

Maybe last ride this year , golden autumn, only watching recording... I had to speed up the video to show what I actually felt while riding

Keep going while the weather holds i had to go pet shop today to get a sack of grub for the koi of course such a large bag wouldn't go in my van so had to go in westie and go to the most distant pet shop out of 3 in my area.

I have machined up some new peddle bushes and set screws as I noticed they had a bit of sloppy movement, side to side. Now the clearance is 0.2 mm so hopefully all play now eliminated. Also sourced a lovely carbon gearknob form the WSCC and have made an aluminium bush to fit. Type 9 gearbox shaft measured 12.3mm OD for reference.

HI Dave, Let's hope you're soon fixed. Here's the two cars that made it

For the wimps out there, like me, who sorn there cars in winter, here’s how I do it. I have a couple of four wheel trolleys and with some strategical placed bits of wood I support the car so I can move it in any direction, to make most use of the limited space in a single garage. The timber supports the chassis and doesn’t allow the suspension to go into full droop. And here it is fully covered with old curtains and thick dust sheets under the Halfords car cover.

Unfortunately, I’m the only one around here driving a Westfield, at least in this area. I really envy you for having such a great community! Maybe I’ll prepare my track-only Westfield for road use for the next season — then I’ll be able to go with one of my sons, or just enjoy watching both of them having fun with the Sevens EDIT : as for "you realize just how special it is to own and drive one" - here , with no other similar cars around it feels from that perspective even more special !

Yes I go with that i love going out on solo drives when I can really open the taps but then on the other hand we go out on as regular as possible on area club drives I don't know if you have many other westies near you on these drive outs we drive in a reasonably orderly manner but it's seeing a westie in front of you and looking in the mirrors and seeing more behind you realize just how special it is to own and drive one and to be part of such a great club with like minded members

And another blatant bump. Not sure how many I get before I get a red card....

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Meet at 10am, Cupola Cafe, Stoney Middleton, Hope Valley, S32 4TF for breakfast before heading off into the Peak District for a run out. Finish time will be early to account for the dark evenings. Weather dependant so please check on here before travelling. Members only.

Last time you said this we got home in the dark and a little damp. Was good though 👍

You should try granola. Lovely.

ON. The current plan is that rain is heading our way in the afternoon, weather forecasts are unreliable so we intend on meeting for breakfast and taking it from there. Hopefully we can fit a run in and maybe even a pot of tea and a slice of cake.........said Worzel Gummidge here. As everyone who is coming has well over a 1 hour journey home, we will keep this one short and do our best to get you home dry.

It all looke nice and official, the v5 shows the correct engine and engine size, the chassis number and vin looks good too, the mot descprtion was just a little comment on one of the car vehicle type check things, i dont know where it originates from? May be from the mot testers description? It is fairly priced and has been used well, but it is in my budget and allows me to tidy it up too, I hope to be jouning as a full member soon!

Yes😁

You won't be able to fit it, as you have to slide it into the brake bracket then slide it into the clutch bracket.

I’m eating paracetamol and ibuprofen like it’s going out of fashion, necking throat syrup, munching halls soothers and gargling salt water to try n beat this sore throat, might be the last chance to get the Westie out

There’s been a change with work so now I can pop over in tin top to catch up with you guys! Andy

Weather looking v good for this time of year, may take the Westy along for a run, before I pull the engine and gearbox out.

Don't we all..

Oh yes we have been packing suitcases, cleaning the house, doing jobs, it’s been great🙄 But tomorrow we are flying to the sun🌞😎 See you in 2026😍

Essex/north kent

You can get the option to have the light move like newer cars direction indicators do. The colours are different ie instead of just red on/off you get white reverse, stop/tail indicator etc then choose which you need

Supposed to be dry, I can actually make Thursdays now so fingers crossed my first will be the last of the year, in the westie too if it is dry lol

As long as the weather and health hold up – gotta keep doing it! It’s not gonna last forever… But while you can – just go for it! This clip’s actually 2× speed,:) but it still shows what’s I felt and what is awesome about kit cars – it’s not about the km/h, it’s all about the feeling. But I am sure You know that ! Way more intense than in any regular production fancy car!

Anyone want to meet up tomorrow morning, 2nd November at the Motorist? Have a chat and a coffee if the queue isn't too long. The weather is looking good and it might be one of the last chances to get out this year. I'll be there from 11am.

Our last Golden Pheasant meet of the year, before December's Christmas Curry! Roughly 7pm if your eating, 7.30 pm or so, otherwise.

😂😂😂 I'm laughing because I'm sure some of you just know for sure what I'm gonna say The way the sun catches that beautiful orange Westfield just makes it look so superb doesn't it? 🍊🍊🍊🍊🍊🍊🍊🍊🍊🍊🍊🍊

I'm very surprised this hasn't gone. I remember following the build thread with interest, and onyone who has done so knows that this is a reqlly well thought out and well put together car.

Sold

The Type 9 gear lever was bent as close to the bottom as possible. (Oxy acetylene heated to cherry red, then bent) Then the shaft was shortened and re-threaded. It has been used for a number of years. No problems at all. I made a jig to clamp the lower end of the gear lever in a vice. That 1. Avoid damaging the bottom end of the lever. 2. Controlled where the bend starts, e.g. not too low. The car is a wide body 2L Zetec, with an initially MT75 gearbox, but it was later converted to a Type 9.

As there’s no forum update or patch notices available for Admins to view, I’m guessing no updates or fixes yet…

Do you feed it up before hibernation

Very impressive! I’ve been trying to do a brief attempt at an owners/workshop manual for the Midlana. Very difficult to find the motivation tbh. Done about 20 pages so far.

Wow, amazing and inspiring. Did you copy the whole diary or filter it?

@Morris - count me in!

Cheers Andy, really interesting points in that video, and looking forward to see how this develops to affect Joe Public. I remember complaining when buying petrol at £1 a gallon, which is now circa £1.40 to £1.70 a litre, then I expect the synthetic fuel to be expensive until we have local (uk) manufacturers mass producing but this article brings home that it’s getting closer. happy days 🫶🏼🤞🙏👍

I have been to Shuttleworth many times, I for one would be interested

to keep some green in the mix there is the 7UP or Falken Tyres liveries.

Had a little bit of pampering done over the past two days. Nothing crazy, just a good once over. There were a few super minor marks from prior to my ownership, and I like my cars to look as good as they go. Mission accomplished. Very happy.

It wasn't as bright and sunny as forecast, but we had a good blat round and got my oil warm ready for the annual oil change!

Nice run out today with @Ian Kinder (Bagpuss) - Joint Peak District AOShame forecast wasn’t reality but still enjoyed the last run out of the year before the gritters get out!

Getting ready for a trip up to Siltech for some suspension works 😎