Thread: Impressive GU Patrol Handling

On the trip home this arvo i took the usual short cut along a small section of graded road. Following behind me was a Brute of a GU Patrol.
Before the graded dirt road are a couple of curvey concrete traffic lands to slow down traffic.
I did the right thing and passed them legally on the left hand side, the Brute Patrol had to take them on the right hand "illegal side".
I hit the dirt, which was muddy ( rain storms in Melb), I accelorated and travelled smoothely along at 70KPH in my stock std Disco 1.
I looked in the rear view mirror to see the Brute Patrol's ****-end fishtailing, he nearly lost it, managed to correct the steering and then potted along at approx 40 kph.
At the end of the dirt bit we returned to the the bitumen, The tosser Patrol driver naturally had to show his macho road dominance , pass me and speed off. Or was he too embarrassed that a Disco has better 'off road' handling than a Patrol.
And Big Patrols are just highway posers.

On the way up the coast on friday night i caught up to a BA XR8 ute, now these things can handle like they are on rails, i have driven them. Coming down BellBird hill into Richmond he was slowing me up, was braking hard for every corner on corners that i just coasted around. Ok if Stacey had been in the car i wouldnt have taken them that quick but he could have gone much quicker around them than what he did.

I was a little dissapointed on the sunday though when a patrol got up a hill i coulnd get up, the fact that i was running highway pressures, had less suspension travel than he did, that he has a rear LSD didnt help and that he had much taller wider tyres worked in his favour, but the real cause was that his wheel base didnt make his wheel line up with the holes at the same time like mine did. I could have gotten up but i couldnt be bother lowering the tyre pressures.

You win some you loose some. Matt