I hit a small deer with a Volvo 740 wagon 10 years ago. Normally they
call this car the Swedish tank but I got the deer in the only weak spot
on the whole car, the grille. What a mess it made. First it opened the
hood, flipped the hood into the windshield and then on the whole roof.
The engine was covered with deer poop and everything that's inside the
animal. The car was about $100 from a total write off by the insurance
company. They asked me how big the deer was. I said it was small enough
to fit in the grille hole.
Somebody I know drove his 300 ZX Twin Turbo under a moose. He only lost
the roof antenna and got some minor paint scratches. The moose lost his
"thingy" and had to be put out of it's misery.
Thomas
citerar "C. Halsted" <chalsted@adelphia.net>:
> OK, I have to chime in here. Sid has told me I hit enough game that I
don't
> need a hunting license. don't hunt anyhow, actually. towing home my 50th
> birthday present on a trailer, SPL310-00003, a black bear they
estimated at
> 350lb plus ran full tilt boogie into the side of my 96 Dodge Ram Pickup.
> did
> over $2800 damage. I accelerated and cut into the oncoming lane (empty) to
> outpace the bear to the point of impact, otherwise I would have hit him
> head-on with much worse consequences. his face packed in the back
corner of
> the passenger door, head packed in the extended cab behind the door,
> shoulder rolled the side of the bed from the front to the wheelwell up
> under, and his butt hit the rear wheel, leaving it with a slight
wobble and
> around 8 inches of fur around the edge of the rim. kicked the back of the
> truck sideways about 2 feet when he hit. score: Dodge Ram and Roadster 1,
> Bear 0. a month later to the day a deer jumped off an embankment and
landed
> right in front of our Dodge Grand Caravan. bent the core support, had to
> change out LF fender, grille, headlight assembly, radiator, straightening
> the hood one of these days. family didn't want to travel on the 21st
of the
> month for a while.
>
> Craig
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