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driving down the road with a little bit of pace. notice an unusual lump in the road. the closer i got to it the more i realised it wasnt a bump but a massive great big dead badger. managed to get the lazy git between the wheels without catching anything. if i wasnt so lazy myself and had fitted my lower springs i wouldnt have been so lucky.
the moral: lazy is awesome. unless your a badger
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Did you eat it?
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Top grammar tips! Bought = purchased. Brought = relocated Lose = misplace/opposite of win. Loose = your mum
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Feb 18, 2006 11:06:36 GMT
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i once hit an (already dead) fox in my severly lowered G40. it had been fairly squished before i got to it but sadly, the height of my car and the fact the exhaust hung low anyway meant there was not enough room for the poor fox's still-roughly-spherical head between my exhaust clamp and the road.
i decapitated it. in my rear view mirror i saw mister fox's head rolling down the road after me. maybe it was trying to chase me, intent on revenge.
the event left my mind after a few weeks, only to resurface when i had the exhaust changed and the guy at the fastfit place was cleaning the clamp with his fingers, going "oooh it's really furry". i contemplated not telling him that was fox brains and fur but the gross factor won through in the end.
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Never trust a man Who names himself Trevor. Or one day you might find He's not a real drug dealer.
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Feb 18, 2006 11:19:19 GMT
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my made had an AX GT a few years back, he had the big bumper, with a splitter on the bottom too, very low, he also had a square, bike style number plate. He drove over a frozen horse sh1t on the way home and had a horse sh1t shape hole through the number plate, bumper, splitter. He wasn't happy, but you couldn't help laff, coz it was a perfect shape ;D
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1988 V8 Rangey Bobtail :: 1968 Volvo Amazon 133 Ratrod :: 1977 Land Rover 88 :: 1985 Opel Monza GSE :: 1983 MKII Fiesta
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Nick
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Feb 18, 2006 12:07:03 GMT
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i remeber ploughing a crowd of pheasants in my mk4 escort (badass) heard them all bouncing up on the floorpan, turned my stomach ..and then one got stuck...stupid animals.
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idea stolen from rattely eddie.
this weeks car count "5"
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Mr K
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Feb 18, 2006 12:21:48 GMT
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everyone keeps asking why the pug 306 I'm driving has a damaged bumper, had i hit some thing?
Well, the answer is nope, I didnt hit anything... but dad used it to comute to gatwick every day (100mile round trip, 6 days a week) and most of this was done at night when there where alot of animals about, he never aimed at anything but he still got the following score: - Fox
- various rabbits and rats
- what he thinks to have been a dog or some large animal, it ran out in front, and he just clipped its bottom before it ran off into the woods again
- an owl - he was very upset about this, it was sitting in the middle of the road on a blind hump, he bought it home with him because he felt so bad (didnt eat it though)
- a small bird, robin sized, was caught in the front bumper with just its legs hanging out the bottom, much to my amusment. - various pheasants
i think the reason he has such a high score is due to driving 100miles a day, dark in both directions during most of the year, down A roads.
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Last Edit: Feb 18, 2006 12:22:17 GMT by Mr K
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Feb 18, 2006 13:11:41 GMT
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If you like roadkill, a prewar car is good - line up the rabbit between the headlights & the beam axle takes care of things nicely.*
I was told this one by a lecturer at uni when he found out I liked prewar cars ;D
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thevert
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Feb 18, 2006 13:22:00 GMT
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Me mate won a skyline at a show here in aberdeen, two weeks later he was driving about in it, at around 95mph a fox came into contact with the front bumper, which tore it off its mounts the fox must have gone underneith cuz it also cracked the rear bumper and smashed his fog light Almost hit a deer once too, shat myself
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Feb 18, 2006 16:17:17 GMT
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^^^ why post a stinkin pic?
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1988 V8 Rangey Bobtail :: 1968 Volvo Amazon 133 Ratrod :: 1977 Land Rover 88 :: 1985 Opel Monza GSE :: 1983 MKII Fiesta
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Feb 18, 2006 17:48:24 GMT
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thanks for that great post.
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1972 Fiat 130 1985 Talbot Alpine 1974 Lancia Beta Saloon 1975 + 1986 Mazda 929 Koop + Wagon 1982 Fiat Argenta 2.0 iniezione elettronica 1977 Toyota Carina TA14 BEST CAR EVER!!!!!!!! 1979 Datsun B310 Sunny 4-dr 1984 Audi 200 Quattro Turbo 1983 Honda Accord 1.6 DX GONE1989 Alfa 75 2.0 TS Mr T says: TREAT YO MOTHER RIGHT!
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Feb 18, 2006 18:24:50 GMT
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Post deleted,.. none of that please.....
I've never hit anything,.. being "a bit" Buddhist I try not to harm anything... but early morning pidgeons don't half make life difficult... drove the 5 or 6 miles from a friends house to my house after a night out clubbing, it was about 5am in the summer, so it was light but no one was around... bloody birds just sat in the road (half of them asleep I think), I physically had to get out of the car at one point and "shoo" away a rather large wood pidgeon because it refused to move!!..
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Feb 18, 2006 19:24:06 GMT
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On a road rally years ago (I'm sure I've told this before here) we came hammering round a bend in our Scirocco to be confronted by a Badger in the middle of the road. Cos of the speed we were doing we had no choice but to either throw the 'rocco up a ditch, through a hedge into an unknown abyss (twas about 4am and quite dark), or hit the poor fella.
So we hit him, quite hard. Thing is, the sumpguard had holes in it for lightness and they neatly grated him to shreds, trapping bits of badger up against the sump and exhaust manifold. The smell was HORRIFIC and lasted for mile after mile. I'll never forget that...
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Feb 18, 2006 19:27:23 GMT
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how grim.
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Feb 18, 2006 23:09:25 GMT
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Took out a hare one night coming home with the then girlfriend....it put a damper on the evening because it didn't go quietly, but ricocheted off the road under the car going BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-THUD! right along the floorpan and finally hit the petrol tank with a comedic CLANG on the way out. Girlfriend was not impressed.......I was curse word myself with laughter!
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Rover Metro - The TARDIS - brake problems.....Stored Rover 75 - Barge MGZTT Cdti 160+ - Winter Hack and Audi botherer... MGF - The Golden Shot...Stored Project Minion........ Can you see the theme?
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thevert
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Feb 18, 2006 23:11:29 GMT
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sorry didnt mean to offend
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Feb 18, 2006 23:20:05 GMT
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Took out a hare one night coming home with the then girlfriend....it put a damper on the evening because it didn't go quietly, but ricocheted off the road under the car going BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-THUD! right along the floorpan and finally hit the petrol tank with a comedic CLANG on the way out. Girlfriend was not impressed.......I was curse word myself with laughter! now thats funny ;D in a grim sort of way
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Feb 19, 2006 11:10:22 GMT
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susan ran into a baby dear at 90mph in a escort van two years ago looked like she had hit a wall after a new bonnit,grill,front pannel,head lights,rad and fans, bumper,wing, sceen and a repair on the roof where the thing went over the top, the van looked ok ! was so sick that day
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Feb 19, 2006 12:41:18 GMT
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My dad hit a deer in his Mondeo a few years ago at 80mph. The car was mangled.
In the scoob we find all manner of wildlife stuck in the scoop. Bats, pidgeons etc.
Adam
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1997 TVR Chimaera 2009 Westfield Megabusa
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Feb 19, 2006 13:55:01 GMT
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My Dad smacked into a Badger a few months back and literally destroyed the front of his virtually brand new Merc CLK, its head went straight through the grill and through the radiator, took the garage a month to fix it and remove bits of badger.
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Feb 20, 2006 21:10:08 GMT
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Cars that are properly low don't run things over, they push them along. A pushed a dead cat once in a Morris Minor!
I nearly hit a horse once...bloody scary - once you get close it becomes very clear that in a car vs. horse accident, the horse stands quite a good chance of winning!
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