Nige_T Posted June 13, 2022 Share Posted June 13, 2022 I spent the weekend driving my new toy around Sussex. I had people asking if they could take a photo on FIVE different occassions. Is this normal...? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Chairman Posted June 13, 2022 Share Posted June 13, 2022 Completely! Particularly when it's such a great looking car! Just beware the Japanese tourists! (All done highly politely) One or two will ask if they can take a photo... And before you know it a whole coach tour of Japanese tourists will arrive, leap out and form the most well behaved scrum round Westfields, trying to get pictures! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Colonial Posted June 13, 2022 Share Posted June 13, 2022 34 minutes ago, Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Chairman said: Completely! Particularly when it's such a great looking car! Just beware the Japanese tourists! (All done highly politely) One or two will ask if they can take a photo... And before you know it a whole coach tour of Japanese tourists will arrive, leap out and form the most well behaved scrum round Westfields, trying to get pictures! Absolutely! There’s more photos of my Westfield in Japan than anywhere else. If I’m feeling particularly generous, I will let them sit in it for photo purposes… so that’s relatively rare. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onliest Smeg David Posted June 13, 2022 Share Posted June 13, 2022 1 hour ago, Nige_T said: I spent the weekend driving my new toy around Sussex. I had people asking if they could take a photo on FIVE different occassions. Is this normal...? Absolutely! ! On a tour of Bonny Scotty Land, we stopped at the Commando Memorial. 2 Coaches pulled in and 90% of the tourists came accross to our Westfields for photos 😁😊 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TAFKARM Posted June 13, 2022 Share Posted June 13, 2022 1 hour ago, Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Chairman said: Completely! Particularly when it's such a great looking car! Just beware the Japanese tourists! (All done highly politely) One or two will ask if they can take a photo... And before you know it a whole coach tour of Japanese tourists will arrive, leap out and form the most well behaved scrum round Westfields, trying to get pictures! Undercover traffic wardens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robin Parker (Red Spider) - Yorkshire AO Posted June 13, 2022 Share Posted June 13, 2022 Is this normal? YES. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robin Parker (Red Spider) - Yorkshire AO Posted June 13, 2022 Share Posted June 13, 2022 4 of us did a car show yesterday, Sunday 12th, and the Westfields proved very popular. We always had a crowd around the cars. Dads wanting one, mums saying "you'll never get me in one of those" and kids wanting to sit in them. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corsechris Posted June 13, 2022 Share Posted June 13, 2022 The best bit of ‘public interaction’ I’ve ever had was some years back when driving the car to work one wet morning (roof was on). Stopped at the village post office to, well, post something, and as I was clambering out of the car, a small girl cries out to her mum “mummy, how did that big fat man fit in that tiny little car???” Classic. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Insuranceman Posted June 13, 2022 Share Posted June 13, 2022 Drove Mrs A to a friends house to deliver a birthday present to a 3 year old boy, as we pulled in front of the house the boy was shouting “it’s Chitty Chitty Bang Bang”! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Julie Hall - WSCC AO Representative Posted June 13, 2022 Share Posted June 13, 2022 Our car was blessed by these guys which I didn't mind at all 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Colonial Posted June 13, 2022 Share Posted June 13, 2022 37 minutes ago, Julie Hall - WSCC AO Representative said: Our car was blessed by these guys which I didn't mind at all One of Julie’s famous Peak District runs goes too far and winds up in Tibet, cakeless. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dibby Posted June 14, 2022 Share Posted June 14, 2022 Perfectly normal @Nige_T it happens all the time. Had one family ask for a photo with the car, I said yes and they all jumped in ... I said with the car, not in the car, but go on then. Came back from a bag of chips at the seaside to find an old codger finding out what all the switches on the dash do ... you look with your eyes not with your hands fella. And everywhere you go there are kids glued to car windows gawping at you. If you want a car to pick up young boys, buy a Westfield! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blatman Posted June 14, 2022 Share Posted June 14, 2022 6 minutes ago, Dibby said: If you want a car to pick up young boys, buy a Westfield! And what car should we drive if we want to pick up middle aged women? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Kinder (Bagpuss) - Joint Peak District AO Posted June 14, 2022 Share Posted June 14, 2022 11 hours ago, Julie Hall - WSCC AO Representative said: Our car was blessed by these guys which I didn't mind at all Ahah the sacred brotherhood of Tango! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhett Turner - Black Country AO Posted June 14, 2022 Share Posted June 14, 2022 These types of cars cause all sorts of surprise reactions. Couple of examples I was using mine as a Wedding car to take the groom. Lovely day and all ribboned up, had to drop my wife at her sisters on the way to pick up the groom and had busses and lorries stop for us to proceed. It was quite surreal. I part of a group dropping off "young adults" at their prom, dropped someone off and was flagged down by a dad as I exited and he asked if I'd drop his son off, I said yes, strapped him in, turned round and pushed back into the queue. My drop off ended up as one of the ones featured on their Facebook page apparently. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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