Background to my Sixtieth Birthday Treat
 

On the 15th of September 2006, a group of my friends, relatives and my wife, treated me to a very different sort of 60th birthday surprise. - I awoke that morning thinking I was going to have a nice day attending a meeting in Surrey, followed by a peaceful evening studying the 'dancing skills' of some young ladies at the Heathrow branch of Spearmint Rhino.

Instead they had been plotting and organising for months, an incredible treat in which I was given the chance to drive (or in some case ride in) a selection of some sixty very special vehicles. These ranged from a Skate Board, to the Brooklands Concord. It was a most wonderful and memorable day, made the more enjoyable because of the all effort they had all gone to.

Me being delivered in vehicle number seven, complete with scantily clad nurses

The Vehicles Involved

Wheelchair
SAAB Convertible (Mandy)
Smart Car
Gosport Ferry
Hampshire Police Volvo 244
Isle of Wight Hovercraft
Ryde Pier Train (Ex underground)
Fiat Punto (Caroline)
Reno St Johns Ambulance
Ambulance Trolley Bed
St Johns Fast Response Volvo V40
Mountain pedal bike
Met Police Rover 3500 (Armoured) 
Kids Scooter
Morris Minor Panda
Grass Board
 

Met Police SD1
Skate Board
Met Police Jaguar Test vehicle
Stepping wheels
Police Land Rover C series SETAC
Honda Africa Twin Sports motor bike
Bedford CA crew bus BOAC colours
Aerospatiale/BAC Concorde G-BBDG
Milk Float  [ex Unigate]
David Brown Heavy Industrial Tractor
Morris Minor Pick Up  Dan-Air colours
Brush Pony Tractor  late 1940s;
Vanden Plas (Geoff’s Car)
British Airways Ransomes Electric Tractor
RAF AEC Mercury MkV Aircraft Fueller
Vialift Baggage Carrier ex BA
BMC ‘Avgas’ Aircraft Refueller

Thornycroft Nubian Airfield Crash Tender
AEC Militant Heavy Wrecker (Millie)
Ambulance Wheel Chair
DAF Wrecker (Brooklands Belle)
Bedford TK Airfield Control Tower
Ransome & Rapier Mobile Crane
Propane Gas Powered Jag Xj6
Genie Tower Scissor Lift
BMW 530 (Blondie)
Morris van British Caledonian colours
Rearwin Aeroplane G-EVLE
Motorcycle Side Car
Alfa Romeo Car
High Speed Rib Craft
Corsa Car (Karen)
BMW 530 (Christine)

To see the pictures of the day  Click here  (The first was taken around 07:50, the last 18:50)

To see the video of the day  Click here   
 

Some of those involved that I have to thank (or perhaps blame)