Cheese and rice. Mandatory for me if I move back to deer country is to fab tubular front bumpers for both trucks as a deer strike would total either one given a big enough specimen. I whacked an 80ish pound little guy with my '88 GMT400 and all it did was crack my grille on the other hand. . .
Fooking deer
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Y'all hunters ain't getting it done. I've hit at least 1,sometimes 2, deer in every car I own (except the 67- don't jinx me!!)
I was doing 80 in a 65 at 2am and caught something out of the corner of my left eye. I hit the brakes HARD and the ABS kicked in - a family of 7 deer crossed the 2 lane highway right where I would have been if I hadn't slowed down.
Like what, the deer's next of kin?
More power to you, my end of the conversation would consist of : 'my vehicle is at ______ body shop; a deer was on a death mission and wanted to cause my vehicle damage and succeeded; I pay your company a lot of money to have this type issue resolved - resolve expeditiously' click.
Fragility and expense with these new trucks make me think you need to mount a cow pusher on the front of them.
Sheesh.
Those $500-1000 headlights don't help things. Used to be a busted headlamp set you back $7. Maybe $25 if you couldn't push the mount bucket and springs back into shape.
Giving me second thoughts to look at moving the 496 into a squarebody and ditching the gmt800. Heated seats are nice though....
Sheesh.
Those $500-1000 headlights don't help things. Used to be a busted headlamp set you back $7. Maybe $25 if you couldn't push the mount bucket and springs back into shape.
Giving me second thoughts to look at moving the 496 into a squarebody and ditching the gmt800. Heated seats are nice though....
Make sure you read some reviews on the body shop before you drop it off, unless you know people there... had a deer hit my f150 in the side, just in front of the door, and bounce down the side, a few years ago. Caddy/chev dealer in town years ago had been the place to take anything body related, and was on my insurance’s preferred list, so I jumped on it. They quoted me 8 days for the repair. After the8th day,I hadn’t heard from them, so I stopped by, and my truck like this
Didn’t get much better after that... got every excuse in the book why it was taking so long, etc... short story long, 3 months after dropping it off, I finally got it back, and still wasn’t happy with the work...
Didn’t get much better after that... got every excuse in the book why it was taking so long, etc... short story long, 3 months after dropping it off, I finally got it back, and still wasn’t happy with the work...
100 years ago when I was a kid some relatives came up from lower MI. On the way, they hit a deer so they tossed him in the bed. Never shot one the whole time they were there, so that ended up being their catch.
Reminds me of a funny story about an uncle of mine. Tried hunting whitetail for about 5 years and couldn't get one. He bought bows, rifles, stands, gear, was doing every season except primitive firearm. Not sure how it's changed, but, 30 yrs ago the deer population in our part of New England wasn't like much of the rest of the country. You really didn't see them very often. Plenty of coyotes, hard winters with snow pack getting a couple feet deep.. but when you did, they were bigger bodied, even does in the upper 100s for body weight.. Where I live now they breed like rabbits and are much smaller, can't throw a rock without hitting one. Small racks too.
Anyways, I digress. One night he was driving up and over our the mountains we lived in. Ended up hitting one just about where my 88 CSC hit one too. Sort of a natural saddle they could jump into the road from to get off a small cliff face when being chased.
Anyways, he made it to the house in his tan escort coupe hatch, deer on the back, needing to clean it so it didn't spoil. At least he could joke about it, said he FINALLY got one and all it cost was $1000 deductible.
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