classic car hire or driving experience for 50th birthday

[Nenen]

My dh will be 50 next summer and I really want to make this special for him. He's always wanted to drive a jag and I'm wondering about booking him either one of those driving 'experience' red letter day type things on a race track somewhere or hiring a jag for a couple of days for us to drive to somewhere lovely. Has anyone had any experience of doing either of these things and/or suggestions for making it special but moneysaving? The one slight difficulty is that as he is 6'5" he is precluded from many of the 'gift day expeiences'.

[Nile]

Hello Nenen

I'll move your thread to the 'Motoring & Public Transport' board where it should get more responses.

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Nile

[Crabman]

Hi Nenen,

I just looked through some track days and you're right, however I found the below Lotus racing experience with a max height of 6'6", if you click below then go back to the list of experiences, it may take a while to go through them all but you may find another with a better height restriction:

http://www.buyagift.co.uk/Product/Id/2041/Name/Motor_Racing_Thrill

Also there's a 25% off code for buyagift here (http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1341603) :D

P.S: I just found their skidpan experience (http://www.buyagift.co.uk/Product/Id/304/Name/Skidding!_All_Angles_-_All_Action_Experience)has a max height of 6'5" - I'd recommend this, it's great fun and gives you the confidence that you can handle a car losing control.

[Conor]

Have a look here:
http://www.classiccarhire.co.uk/