Royal Enfield Surprise
Cheryl Grunsell leaned across the front seat of the car and gave her husband, Paul, a quick kiss. While doing this, she discreetly pushed the button on the garage door remote control and said, “I’ve got one more surprise for you.”
Returning home from a dinner to celebrate Paul’s 50th birthday, the couple had just pulled into their suburban Calgary driveway. As the door slowly went up, Paul saw feet, then knees, and then a garage full of their closest acquaintances.
“I thought this was a surprise party and went in and said, ‘Nice to see you’ to a couple of people and shared a few hugs,” Paul recalls. “That’s when the crowd parted, and I stood there speechless.”
Speechless because what the group of 30 or so friends had been concealing was a 1951 Royal Enfield Model G, a 350 cc single-cylinder motorcycle that had once belonged to his Uncle Dennis. It was a machine Paul had last seen just a year before in England while visiting family.
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