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

A great big thank you to Marcus Barlow, our Events manager for giving us this tour, here it is from our seat. Thank you for the hats in the best colour! We travelled up the M6 with @AndrewBClarke, @neptune and @Stuart, making our way to the Lakeland Motor Museum for lunch by the river whilst watching the steam train, fantastic start. Lakeland Motor Museum It's cafe by the river, overlooking the cars and steam trains Next we drove along the shores of Lake Windermere to ride on the ferry and experience the Lakes close up After the torrential downpour we were glad to park our cars in the heated underground car park at Travelodge Kendal, what a luxury. I am hoping others will post their experience on here and will include a photo of approx 20 Westfield's tucked up for the night. We went into Kendal town to eat with the 3 Andy's and others The puddings flowed and the frivolities started Next morning we all gathered for the Tour Talk from Marcus Then it was time to set off, excited!! Thanks @Glynn Walters for the photo At The New Dungeon Ghyll Hotel, Langdale It is in a lovely situation Next stop for us was the Honister Slate Mine cafe, here is the Honister Pass And here is us parked up Glenridding, a little mountain village next Time for ice creams Then we went a walk, follow me, puff it's uphill all the way to the top! To Lanty's Tarn For views over Ullswater Glenridding The second day was the Dales tour, over Buttertubs Pass and to the beautiful Simonstone Hall with it's amazing views, stopping for drinks The walk at Malham was cancelled due to rain so we went to Ribblehead Viaduct and sat it out in the Station Inn Our journey home with Andrew was to get down the M6 and pick up the Peak District, getting to the Cupola cafe before separating A fantastic trip, even if I didn't quite have a clue which National Park I was in each day, does it matter? they are all beautiful. Thanks to everyone for making it the awesome trip that it was, now let's have a little pray that Marcus treats us to the same next year XXXXXXXXXXXX

Galleria Passo San Boldo with @mTT97 @Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Chairman @Stu Faulkner

There isn’t a section for returning users, so thought Startline was probably the best place to put this. For those of you who don’t know/remember me, I’m Mat and was a member here 3-4 years ago - used to have a green 1.8 Zetec before Covid job loss forced me to sell. For those of you I have met up with previously - hello again, can’t wait to see you all. My partner will confirm I’ve been a right miserable and grumpy sod since selling up, and so delighted to report that I’ve finally managed to rectify the situation. Introducing the Jaffa Cake. A 2.0 Duratec SEiW Deal agreed today and will be collected this coming week at some point. I’m based South Lincs, towards Peterborough. Looking forward to one of your run outs to some cake at some point @Julie Hall - WSCC AO Representative and @AndrewBClarke. Will be in touch with you too@Martin Bell - (Bellyboy) East Anglia AO as I think you’re my closest AO? Thanks Mat

None of this fancy European stuff for me unfortunately, just a mundane visit to B&Q. Any excuse to get out!

Starting the journey home from the Dolomites

130 miles last night. That cleared the cobwebs

A few of the Kent lot this morning for breaky blat

Top of Gardena pass , Dolomites

Thanks to all you members who came along, hope you enjoyed the tour. We got wet, we got lost and we had lots of fun 😎 and somewhere there is a sign with a WSCC tour sticker on it 🤭

Great drive on the empty minor roads from Vannes to Port de Trèvignon in Brittany today

Great few days in the Lakes and Dales. I didn't take too many photos, but here's a few. Ribblehead Viaduct, Honister pass, And some traffic lights.

I travelled up from Hampshire for this. Did 908 miles in total. Fault free and my Westy is 25 years old. Loved every bit of it despite some rain. What a car! What a club!!

Back in the Peaks

WOW what a great trip !!!!! Many thanks to all the guys and gals that make these trips an unbelievable experience , it makes the WSCC the greatest club in the world. Here’s a few pics from our travels ……. Compulsory McDonald’s muffin to start the day then we met @ianaliand @Andy Westwood at Ashbourne to follow last years Long way North tour up to the A65 and then head into the lakes but Andy’s car was having other ideas !!!!!! he decide to quit and make a run for home to swap to the SLK and meet us later , we carried on getting lost a couple of times and finding road closures 🙄 but still found some nice roads but then the rain turned up after a couple of diversions and re routes ( this was one of them) we decided to quit the nice roads and make a run for the hotel via the M6, the view from Ian and Ali’s car Well we got there and parked up with the others and started to dry out, Mr Westwood’s SLK was sat all alone but he did look rather dry sat in the pub 🤔 Look some blue sky 😎 some lovely roads and scenery from the day A lake somewhere (we know why there’s so many 🤣) quiet roads top of a mountain somewhere ( @Julie Hall - WSCC AO Representative will tell me which one 😜) we stopped for a drink and I parked in the charging bay so I thought I’d give it ago , Westfield do electric cars … but mine isn’t back to chasing the sunshine and a big shout out to the crazy gang who we’ve met through the mighty WSCC next year can we go away from GREEN we need a nice bright colour like ORANGE 🤪 Thanks again @Marcus Barlow - Show and Events Co-ordinator and @Julie Hall - WSCC AO Representative and the others for making this tour happen, love to you all Andy & Becky

Time for bed

I've been going through my GoPro footage, so here's a couple of videos and some stills. Andrew chatting up Margaret Leaving the Hotel Ullswater Hills and Bends

MOT day today, needless to say zero advisories 😎 Not the best photo 🫣

Prom ready!

Friend used his termal camera on my car after a driving session as I kept on complaining about the temperatures.... turns out I'm slowly being cooked like a lobster

East Anglias array of colour choices. 4 yellow perils and thats only scratching the surface in our area.

Previous Alps trips have been 4 cars- this number works well with train & ferry cabins being for 4 people. We were joined by an Italian WSCC member @mTT97 for the day on Friday. Hence it’s just @Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Chairman & @Stu Faulkner and I this time

A box of Amphenol AT/ATM connectors from Mouser for my ongoing re-wiring

Your tyres are not glowing white, you're not trying hard enough! 😁

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.

Thirsty work all this touring….

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

You’ve got rid of your partner? Welcome back to the fold! 👍

Don’t you just love FB Marketplace! my brand new V8 baffled sump & not from postie but from Lee Smith - Black Country member & owner of Premier Auto & MOT Ltd - an original Wix W7068 filter happy days - rebuild on the way 🤞🤞🤞

@Peter (Monty) I was making fw stoneguards and the quality of my tooling and finished products was really nice if i do say so myself just look at the attached picture but in a moment of madness i sold the tooling which was a mistake !! I must have been asked by atleast 5 different people about these last week so i'm notsure if the person i sold the tooling too is making any 🤔

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

Cheers!

LiFePO4 battery 20Ah and charger (charger more expensive than Battery! but seems reputable company, IP65, thick cables, solid connetor, and few modes and app for more experienced users . Battery with peak discharge current 50A. Not sure, but hope it wil be sufficient for reverse elecric motor.

Marks tooling is in no way any good for me due to me making all my parts from prepreg and i use an autoclave which i dont wont to bore you with the details . Keep your eye open for a fw rear diffuser😉

I've got a Westfield hanging from my garage ceiling too! 😁

Day 3 pic of the day. Day 4 Decided to have a relaxing morning and a few drives. Relax and taste some of the local cultures around the pateley bridge area. Mostly ciders and cakes 🤪.We really loved the yorkshire area and the people. I think we enjoyed days 1 to 3 so much we tired ourselves out. A few pics of our chilled out day before our ride home. All the nitty gritty will be in a big write up for the magazine. The friendly cow who I will miss and his mates who I won't as they kept stopping us leave the barn we were staying in.

Either are good, but make sure you're not buying cheap copies. No problem buying from Mouser.

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

Another little winter project tinkering. Flush mount for the digi dash

All lined up and drying out 😁

As some of you know, my little green car had its MOT June 6th. Well she passed, and we are going out today for some more familiarisation with driving her. We are planning on going to the Coleshill Auto Breakfast Meet Big Day Out on the 29th as that was the last event my dad drove her to before he passed. If anyone is in the Midlands area and fancies joining me, the more the merrier. https://www.coleshillautobreakfastmeet.org/event-details-registration/big-day-out-all-day-event

Suppose ill have to make my contribution, mine the day i picked her up. 😁

Maybe some of you have heard the latest news – Le Mans 2025 was won by Polish driver Robert Kubica! His main sponsor is ORLEN. While I was testing my recently finished (and finally working!) MNR, it seems some folks from ORLEN were watching my driving — and they sent me a whole cistern of their fuel. Nice!

Few more various pictures of wonderful Yorkshire. I wish I lived around here.

Day 3 Ribblehead valley viaduct