Your Fvorite Westy

[Rob Navin]

I was thinking last night that we have never really had a thread about our favourite Westfield’s as far as I recall and I haven’t done a search

Obviously with out a few ground rules we would all say our own cars past and present were the best so you can’t use a car you have owned.

It can be a car from any part of the Westfield ownership, road, show, sprint or race.

Your looking for the car that inspired you to build yours the way you did, or the one that you would want to own above any other.

Let us know what it is and why you picked it and photo’s if you have them.

I’ll go first.

Mick Coopers - Carbon Sprint car ( pre Oliver’s Mount fence mod )

It was the first Westy I ever saw that really amazed me.  I first saw it at Oliver’s mount on my very first sprint.

The car to me was everything that a Westy should be and the attention to detail set of the spark in me that I have tried to match, but never really got close to, ever since.  There were a lot of other very good cars out at the time but Mick’s had the edge for me.

He has put some cracking cars out there before and since but that one stands out for me unfortunately I have no photo’s.

So any one else want to follow on and waste five mins ?

[Blatman]

Micks first carbon bodied atmo Cossie powered car for me too

My sprint car has the rear wishbones from it...

[Bananaman]

Rob,

I was the Blue car i bought off Mick, i went down to buy a trailer off him and saw the car and fell in   with it...

260+bhp, 6 speed seq quaife box, soo much pre-preg carbon fiber and that loverly baby blue lightweight bodywork!

Mr Cooper sure does know how to put a westfiled together!

[Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Chairman]

hmm, a bit awkward really, the thing that most influenced the style of car I would later want to build wasn't a Westfield, it was the JPE Caterham's.

Having said that, Del's orange beast in VX trim, (I was building my VX engined car when I first saw it) would come close.

[JeffC]

sorry but for my  personal choice I will have to break your rules but as a multiple westy owner i should be exempt      

after owning over a dozen of them my 2nd westy (1st busa) is the one I would vote for, loved that car got abused for 18 months  over 8,000 miles on track and it just loved it    only failure in all that time was a £2 seal    

in the end it wasnt a pretty or tidy car , it wasnt particularily well put together but it did everything wanted it to do , everytime i jumped in it was look putting a pair of old slippers on      remind me why i sold it  

had a succession of cars after that and yes I had faster but I dont think any of the were as good as a track slag 

[echoz]

Jeff i really liked the 1500 busa you had in black and yellow

and my old mans westy the first time i went in that, i was grinning ear to ear for what felt like days

unfortunatley he sold it

[JeffC]

Jeff i really liked the 1500 busa you had in black and yellow

I did too up until the point it s**t itself and cost me £5500      

[cast iron]

Watboxs multi coloured steed when I saw it at croft I think 2003 or 4?

[SteveD]

nob ravins ivory xflow

[JeffC]

first time I went to Croft to watch the speed series think would have been 2004 ish ? ? I remember getting exited over Smithys yellow Vauxhall powered car that looked quick and very well bolted together too    

dunno what had happened as this is the only but strange pic i have of it

[Mark Stanton]

Two for me

The black and silver FW400 when unveiled at the 1998 motorshow at NEC      

and ACW's multi-coloured V8 beast      

Both were original      

[oioi]

yet to see another westie that i want to own other than mine.  its something about having a car that has developed with you, you have changed, modified, improved and when you slide into the drivers seat you feel at one with the car.  you know exactly what the car is going to do.  50,000 or so miles gives you that feeling. also im yet to find another car that has shark graphics.

having said all that - i feel inspired by an XI.  having had a short half hour drive of one I really would like one.

[Mark Stanton]

better be quick Mike XI's are soon to be history              

[James]

This one I   the colour scheme and the attention to detail was simply amazing! some ideas from that car have been mixed with my own and added to my car, its simple agresive classic and yet modern for me it tick's all the boxes.

But I also agree with Oioi my car feel's like mine because ive built it then rebuilt it and rebuilt it again and if I get bored for five minutes I take something else off.

My car never really had a plan its evolved all by its self and somehow got me to pick up the tab, one thing led to another but Jeff's green car inspired me to do the same on my car although it didnt stay like it for long

[James]

Jeff i really liked the 1500 busa you had in black and yellow

and my old mans westy the first time i went in that, i was grinning ear to ear for what felt like days

unfortunatley he sold it

Thats Phil's car that is! or ummm was......... its still local though, I met the guy who bought it a couple of weeks ago I must admit I felt envious of him. I would love to be back at the beggining of the journey again with so many posibilities for the car!