Making a dick of yourself in 3 easy steps.

[SlashWylde]

1. Borrow a friends manual 5.7L V8 SS ute to go to the shops

2. It's a rainy night and the road is wet

3. Give it a bit too much welly lad

A mate offered to let me take his shiny red ute for a spin tonight, so I took him up on the offer as I had to go up the road to the supermarket anyway.

Gently pulled out of the car park and eased out onto the main road. No problems, cruised along at the posted speed of 80kph. Reached a controlled intersection with a free left turn into another two lane road and after checking there was no traffic approaching from the right, I released the clutch and applied the gas to move off.

Well fuck me if she didn't squirm like a stuck pig. The rear end snaked out right, then left, then right again. Before I knew it I found myself suddenly launched sideways into the right hand of the two lanes. Thank god there wasn't a car beside me or else I'd have some serious explaining to do.

Aaaanyway. I took it real easy after that with no further incidents. Very nice machine that SS. Bit of care needed tho to get used to all that available torque and HP at the REAR wheels, 'specially in the wet.

[Kornholio]

Aww I was hoping to read that you had wrapped it around an expensive Beamer or something ...... Lucky tho

[onearmedbandit]

Yep, sounds very lucky. Unlike the guy in his VP SS outside our work last weekend. Tried to show off to his kids after being at supakarts by doing a u-turn and then some fishtails on one of the busiest roads in town. Lost control of it and punted into a parked car outside our work, writing it off. We'll sell her a car though.

[DingDong]

My 01 ute has a quite strong LSD and is easy to get both wheels to lightup, but you have to gas it!... taking it easy huh? I think you fell in love with the V8 roar

[scracha]

Shouldn't the ladies with bad taste who drive utes just stop pretending and get one with automatic transmission.

[750Y]

LOL, dude you just gotta learn to squeeeeeeze the trigger

[Motu]

Those things with an LSD are a bit nasty to drive if you want to cross them up a bit in the wet - the LSD snatches them back with a big snap,makes you look a dork.I prefer an ordinary diff,you have a lot more control on city streets - on a closed circuit a locked diff is the way to go....sideways everywhere.

[dnos]

hahaha. that reminds me of my uncle in his maloo going from side to side for about a hundred metres up the road in the dry. when he finally got control and stopped i swear he needed new undies. Couple guys who saw thought it looked totally awesome but i know for a fact he only intended a little wheelspin.
I'm in the passenger seat thinking its all over so of course there was plenty of nervous laughter when we stopped.
Gotta love that rear wheel drive - specially with super sticky tyres that just let go when u gone too far.

[Dangerous Dane]

You guys will probably go anti-car and hate me but I'm building up a tiny wee mazda ute which probably weighs about 650-700kg into a 200-300hp weapon. Should be good for a laugh and a license confiscation.