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Yes, I have small car syndrome and love it both here and there.

Came up on a convoy trailing a road train in the Northern Territory - two utes towing caravans behind the train, followed by a tour bus and two cars. They were all doing 95 km/h. ROO was cruising at 105 kmh. Put on the right turn signal and passed the lot. Asked the wifey to wave to the tractor driver as all I could see were his hub caps.

Tour bus driver was right peed off and hauled out to pass and chase me down the tarmac...silly b...er.

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Yeah I come across that a lot Hunter, come up to a slow convoy and pass them (either leapfrog or the whole lot in one go depending on other traffic and line markings).
Once the mini passes them they get the courage to do the same but they have to pass the mini as well because minis are slow. Never mind they have been sitting behind other cars that were going slow and they would have kept putting along behind the slow convoy if we didn't show them what was possible.

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My wife's 1100s attract the same thing. Driven spiritedly its quite a pokey car. We pass cars in similar situations to the convoy (though not neccessarily road trains) and nearly always some one has to think to themself that a white leghorns bowling car driven by two geriatrics is not going to pass him and pull away.

They usually overdrive quite dramatically to catch up and pass.

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