It was only a week ago that I posted pictures of my car here and it looked amazing. Well as of 2:00 pm here in New York my SS now looks like this thanks to a deer...

Before




At the scene



When I got the car back to my place





Nice chunk of meat











Where its nose hit my door




Thankfully I am okay. But it looks like I will need a new hood, headlight, bumper cover and the radiator support looks a little tweeked. I'm sure the list will get longer once my insurance company takes a look at it. It is still driveable. No leaks and it still tracks straight down the road so I'm not to worried. The only thing that I will do is wrap something around the hood latch at work tomorrow so the hood does not open.

And for those that want to know, I will look into getting a carbon fiber hood and SS/TC grill inserts for the top grill.

 

woopsy...........It's completely totaled. Get the insurance money and buy the ZR-1.

 

Did you kill the bastard? CF hood and SS/TC grill FTMFW! Getting any money from the insurance thieves?

 

Nice job, lol where abouts in victor you from?

 

well def gunna need a bumper cover i guess u can donate that ss/sc front lip to me, ill pay shipping

 

Yea i definitely killed the deer. It was kicking around with its front legs for like 20 minutes trying to climb a hill then looked at me and rolled down it a little to where it died. If it does get totaled I will buy a beater car and then have my boss find me a Corvette, like I should have done before I bought the SS. Most likely it won't though.

XtortedCobalt: I live just north of Cobblestone Creek and work in the village at the Corvette dealer.

If i can keep any off the parts i'll let you know.

 

You're lucky it wasn't a moose like here in the North, you would be dead by now...

 

Their is a TON of road kill here... Im waiting for me to hit one... its going to SUCK ASS!!

 

that really sux, I feel really bad for you...that first pic is very nice...sorry

 

Dude I hate to see what happened to your car....but I can't believe you let a wounded animal writhe in pain for 20 mins?! Have you never heard of calling animal control or someone else to come and shoot it if it's not safe for you to finish it off?

Maybe there is a circumstance that can explain why you let a wounded animal suffer for nearly half an hour??

 

I am really lucky that it wasn't any bigger or have it go through my windshield. A friend hit one on New Years and had it hit his windshield and go over the car.

I called the cops as soon as it happened and it took them almost an hour to get there. I wasn't about to walk up to the thing.

 

idk where victor is compared to middletown, but if it isnt far my friends dad owns a body shop and they are relatively low priced from what ive heard and they do amazing work. if it isnt far you should come stop by

 

I know this is a bad time to ask, but what kind of wax do you use?

 

i don't get deers getting hit by cars...

I can understand that they may not know what one is but why the **** would you run in front of a moving object?

 

lmao

Dude long shot, but were you on the I87 offramp yesterday, turning onto wolf road? If so i'm the red ss that passed you . Prob not thoug but I figured i'd ask. lol.

And that sucks about the car. Mine got beaned before and I wass mad. Hopefully she'll get fixed. Damage doesn't look THAT bad.

 

haha thats great

 

it's illegal to do it yourself in most states\areas. i got a stern lecture from a statie 3 years ago for slitting the throat of a deer in front of my house that some minivan had hit, coulda given me more than just that lecture but he didn't.

last deer I hit died more or less instantly. no visible damage to the car...just a broken headlight clip...headlight itself was fine, no cracks or anything. 50mph, only hit it's head with my headlight...was gross looking, it's head was twisted nearly 360°. i was still pretty furious though, probably would have killed it myself.

hate deer...so friggen many of them around here because the hunting laws are ridiculous, so they reproduce faster than they get killed off. no population control.

 

that's nasty....

deers are starting to swim over to us now from jersey... <_<

 

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and friggen yuppies from NY swarm all over my town every weekend.

I'll take the deer, tyvm.

 

That will just buff out with a little elbow grease.

 

Actually since i have been so busy at work i have not had the chance to wax it this year. This was just from me washing it like 2 minutes before i hit it. But normally I use a wax called IBIZ. We use it at work on all the Vette's. I was going to spend all day today washing/claying/waxing it because it was 1 year ago today that i picked it up.

victory_red_SS: lol. i'm surprised it took to the 2nd page for some to say that.

BigTizzle903: Yea i will check out where it is compared to Victor. Could you PM me their name/number?

 

Yea, I doubt it. That is minimal damage... especially for hitting a dear. I put 10k in damage to my car last february and they didnt total it.

Definitely lucky. I dont know if I have ever seen such little damage from hitting a deer. Glad to hear you are ok. And yea I would let the thing walk around on its own too.

Really? Where can I buy some of that? How does it work?

 

I know and I had to read every post first just to make sure.
Elbow grease can be purchased from
KaleCoAuto - Elbow grease
They also sell Butt Dyno's and the latest Flux Capacitor.

 

Yea everyone at work and even i'm surprised that not more stuff got damaged, at least from what i can see. I have no idea how the fender didn't get hit or even the mirror.

One thing that I have noticed though. I have gotten a lot of looks because of the damage while driving around. Like today i was sitting at a stop light and a car pulled up on my right and the two guys inside both looked right at the hood and then at the rest of the car. So all i do is wave and go on my way.

 

thats a bout the most painful thing to watch if you have any heart at all for nature