driving home from a 15hr work day its 5am on a long contry road going about 60mph and WHAM! i hit a deer the cat didnt hold up to good
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i got pics of the deer but i wont post that unless some one wants to really see it
suck ass! how big was the deer. doe buck? didnt really mess up the bumber though.
it was a doe i got all the messed up stuff off today waiting for new parts and does anyone know what a black paint job cost?
that realy sucks....
wanna buy a tbird?....
that reaaally sucks...
black would run anywhere from $1500- 2000 depends if your putting anything in it
Ugh, thats what happened to the Coug in my sig
Maybe you can luck out and fine the same color car in a boneyard and do that route iinstead of new paint.
do you hunt deer? maybe the deer was coming back for revenge :dunno: poor cougar
shiznitty deal dude... But
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jenkins6586,
man, i can certainly relate. about five years ago i had an '88 turbo coupe that had already turned into a money pit. i was also going home from the girlfriend's (now wife's) house down a dark country road when i saw three deer out of the corner of my eye just step off the road in front of me. i had just enough time to think "whoa, that was close", when the fourth one came across just a few steps behind. i never had a chance to hit the brakes from about 70 mph. kablooie! it shattered the header panel and driver's lights and buckled the driver's fender. i never even went back to find the deer. i wasn't sure i'd want to have seen it anyway. i did get away without any hood damage, though. i had a heck of a time finding any t-birds in the salvage yards, and for sure nobody had a turbo coupe. this was before i knew about ebay or these kind of discussion pages online to find parts. i finally quit asking for turbo coupe parts and was willing to take anything that would fit. i finally got somebody who had a good front end on an '88 cougar (totally wrong) and i said, ok, i'll take it. i got to the salvage yard and was headed for the cougar when i saw a dark red turbo coupe with no body damage. i said "you didn't tell me you had a turbo coupe", to which he said "you didn't ask about a turbo". well, i told what parts i needed, a fender, a header panel, the bumper cover, driver's headlight assembly, and a foglight. he said, "i can only sell you the whole front clip or nothing, and that will be $500, or you can have the whole car for $800". i said i didn't want the whole car or the whole front clip, just what i asked for. he made a big deal about going to the manager and asking special permission, and came back and said i could have what i wanted for $400. i said ok. of course they were the wrong color (my car was dark blue, and the donor was dark red), but i had found the only turbo coupe donor within 100 miles. i got shafted. i drove the car a while longer with the patchwork body parts and knew it looked goofy, but i wasn't worried about a paintjob for a while. then before long the good ole' a4ld tranny went poof, then while towing it home with my truck, a drunk 16-year old turned in front of me and wham, i lost my daily driving '97 f150 and the bird. i had dumped so much money in the bird, now it had a fried tranny and was totalled (which didn't take much considering its age and mileage). when the adjuster finally met me to cut me a check, i had over $3000 in the car and could have never gotten my money back any other way. he asked if $3600 would be sufficient. i said, yes, i think it will.
sorry for the long-winded story. i just like to tell it every now and then. at least you have the benefit of this forum for resources that i didn't, which will help a lot. good luck with the repairs. i'd help you if i could, but my cougars are an '83 and an '84.
oh, by the way, my wife's maiden name is jenkins. i thought that was cool.
fordman3
Ouch, sorry to see that.
As far as getting the car repainted, you could stop by Maaco. Their work ishiznit or miss however I do hear if you prep the car yourself and purchase your own paint, they do a good job.
hmm that sucks. I hate that feeling right before you slam on the brakes.
Sorry if i piss off any vegans here...:flip:
The more deer we harvest every fall, is that many less that may cause a collision...and it's good meat, too! :giggle:
Yeah, it sucks, i've hit deer with nearly everything I've ever driven, excpet my latest Tbird (the white one)...sorta drive with crossed fingers, too.....
Anyway, hope ya get it back together soon :D
well 45 junkyards later i found parts but they all say 88 and under cougars/thunderbirds are rare so i got a hood header panel lights and grill for 250 and is bright blue there was a sweet tc there i went to get the hood some one lifted the hood to hard and bent it by the hinges i was pissed cause it was black too all thats left is the fender had to go 2 hrs away to get one and what makes me mad is all the parts i took off were 100% rust free
I know exactly how you feel! The same thing happend to my cat in 04'
I guess Cats just like pouncing on deer :(
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Yours got it worse than mine
I had to replace
- the front end
- and the drivers side fender
it cost about $500 bucks.
i got lucky when i hit the fire truck i got my parts for FREE that right and the mom brought me out breakfast while i was taking the parts off. talk about nice people i didn't think there where people like that. it was awsome the part were red but thet were free and the bumber cover has some cracks on the trim part put free! i primerd the header and buckets gray and put it on but i didnt do the bumber cause i ran out of primer so i had to put it on red. didnt want to put it on till later put had to so i rolled around with the three tone paint for a day black car red bumber and primer header panel. still pimpin though. that noight i made a point of primerin the bumper. i kinda like the primer front the longer its on. did any one else have trouble with the bolts that go into to fender at the corner of the header? mine stripped out of the header and stayed in the fender. WD-40 them before you try to take the out just to be safe
this looks all to familiar. but yours should be fixable if anything a little heat and beat on the rad support
nothing like this totaled.
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good luck with the rebuild
But at least you made up for some of it by selling the carcass to Taco Bell...:rollin:
Those were some of the best tacos I have ever had!