I was just curious if any fellow thirdgener's have hit any deer or larger animals with their cars.

The reason I am asking this is because my buddy and I almost took out a few deer in his 86 Z28 the other day. I guess it might be better put that the deer almost took us out. Good thing those disc brakes were working well.

I was curious if the car being so low has any advantage or disadvantage to hitting a deer or something similar.

 

well the deer will obliterate anything it touches, most likely including the windshield...

my advice, dont hit one.

 

I wasn't planning on hitting one, was just curious what has, or could happen.

 

Ive hit 3 birds in my bird in the 6000 miles I have driven it

 

i hit a moose.
scariest thing that has every happened to me.
COMPLETELY ****in black out, was about 1130 at night, come around a turn doin about 140 (in a big hurry to get home). dont even see the moose which is standing about 8 feet in the air, needless to say i took out on leg and it pretty near demolished the car.

 

depends, saw one (firebird) that hit one at 60 mph and you could only tell by a few scratches and blood all over it.


and another one (camaro) looked like it hit a truck just destroyed the hood nose fender and windsheild


it all depends on how fast and just how the deer was hit. anything is open when something that heavy is hit by a fast moving car

 

I got a pretty big one, got the hood on the driver's side, header panel, the nose came loose, and bent the fender just a hair. Hadnt even had the car for 2 weeks.

 

I've hit two now.Where I live the deer in the fields damn near out number the cattle.One was in my Dodge Dakota,hit that one mostly on the drivers side,it took out the head light, grill,crumpled the hood and pushed the fender into the door.Didn't

 

just bounced off the front, didn't get the windsheild.He was a big fuc**r too.The second one was in a car similar size as my iroc.I hit him right in the middle at 120KM.His legs took out the head lights,minor crumple on the edges of the front of the hood.He went right up and over the car not even touching the roof.He was doing the back spin down the center of the highway in my rear view mirror.So in reality definitly not write off type damage either time.Good tip told to me by my trucker buddy is if your gonna hit one aim for his ***.If he does jump/run foward you'll hopefully miss him or at least just clip his **** instead of the opposite and hitting the whole thing solid.

 

I just read a minute ago on another thread that someone hit a horse with their thirdgen

 

I hit a deer about 10 years ago in my 88 GTA. I was real luckey i saw it and locked em up, it jumped right in front of me i was just about stopped,the deer went flying and i got some hairs stuck in my front emblem. I thought i was doomed but just a little freaked out lol.

 

Yup

 

I hit a pretty good size deer(200+ pounds) with my 87 Formula. Just had time to hit brakes at about 60 mph, car swerved to the left just a couple of feet, probably preventing the deer from going through the windshield. It went diagonally across the hood from the center point towards the right mirror. Took the right headlight completely off, crunched the front edge of the hood, and its hoof gouged the mirror.
About $2200 woth of damage by the time the hood, mirror, and headlight were replaced, the deer jumped up and ran away. Don't recommend tangling with deer.

 

luckly I killed my deer

 

EXACTLY SAME DAMAGE AS MY DEER!!! I dont have ground effects or pictures. Same color too!
POZ
Probably same deer because he ran away!!!

 

Well I have yet to get mine painted, saving up to get the whole thing painted, but a new fender and some straightening of the hood and new headlight and all is good and atleast 1 piece.

 

Not in either of the Camaros I've had, but I've managed to hit 3. I actually was on the way to get estimates for hitting a deer in a truck I had, and I hit a chicken!? The neighbor down the road had a bunch that got out and one flew across the road and dented the hood really good. Just told the body shop some B.S. story and got it fixed under the deer incident. I hate deer. I wish they'd kill them all!!!!