Must have been a big deer.

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Reply #15 – March 13, 2005, 02:16:25 PM

i wonder what kind of car that deer was driving or what the guy that got hit was drinking that night :flip:

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Reply #16 – March 13, 2005, 08:41:08 PM

Wow! I never saw one that bad. He must have been drunk to survive that wreck.

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Reply #17 – March 13, 2005, 08:48:39 PM

That's a real shame to see such a great looking car bite the dust. Cars in that condition from that era are a real rare find.

Chris

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Reply #18 – March 17, 2005, 08:44:15 PM

Two words: moose trebuchet

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Reply #19 – March 19, 2005, 01:40:01 AM

Hey guys,
I actually was watching that car, and I submitted a question to them asking more details about the accident, and the lady sent me the phone number of her brother, who the car belonged to. I called him, and the story is, his 16-year old son had it out on wet roads and a deer jumped out in front of him. He never actually hit the deer; he spun it a couple times and then slammed it sideways into a tree. Apparently if he hadn't caught the tree, the car would have went flying off some very high embankment. I actually wanted the car for all the good sheetmetal it still had (the same parts my '84 LS needs), plus a 35k mile motor, then I'd have sold the rest for s metal. I think it was actually an '86 because it had what was left of a third brake light in the back deck. But I needed (and still do) the trunk lid, the passenger door, the passenger rocker panel, and the driver's rear quarter (which actually wasn't bent), and the motor/tranny; and I believed him about the mileage. The car had been his mother's, you know, the proverbial little old lady's car that was barely ever driven, and then the mother passed away. I think he was a little high for a total wreck like that, low mileage or not, and if he hadn't sold it on Ebay, he told me he'd consider parting it. Somebody got it, though. But I had the same first reaction; my literal question was, "how big was the Mack truck that the deer was driving?". I think the deer got off luckiest of them all.