Why I hate deer... Options

[richee3]

Well... I got my first Celica when I was 16. I had a truck for the first 8 months I had my license. Single cab short bed '99 Dodge Ram, 5.9 liter V8. That thing was BA. But I never really wanted it or it's 12 miles to the gallon. So my parents sold that and bought my first Celica, a '96 ST auto from a retiring schoolteacher that my stepmom worked with. She kept that car immaculate- oil changed every 2,500 miles, detailed once a week, door dings fixed within a week. That was her 3rd Celica, and she only sold it to buy a convertible Solara when she had grandchildren on the way and decided a car seat in a Celica was impractical. I went through a bad phase with that car for a month or two... The pictures will explain it.










Don't worry, I got rid of the underglows in a hurry. I was young and stupid then So another couple of months went by uneventfully, and then school started back up. I had to park near some bad drivers. One day, I checked my mirrors and started backing out. In the time it took me to let off the brake and turn my head from my mirrors to look out my driver's side window to make sure nobody would be driving through behind me, a girl that parked behind me floored it and got out in the aisle, and I backed right into her in my shiny 3L2 Celica. Did $125 worth of damage to the paint, no biggie.


With my nice little Autozone exhaust tip there... It actually looked decent on the car.


Saved up the money to get it fixed and made an appointment. My appointment was for a Monday to drop the car off at the body shop. The Friday night before that, I was driving home. I had 3 hours to make a 5 minute drive, so I was in no hurry. I was driving about 45, watching out for deer. But the problem is I was watching the field to my left rather than the yards to my right. There was a deer lurking in a group of trees in one of the yards. I owned that car 5 months to the day when this happened. This was 1 mile from my house.


My dad is an avid deer hunter. He was pretty upset about the car until he saw the deer laying in the ditch. Then I was pardoned and he made me load the deer up in his truck.























That twisted the frame and blew both airbags. $7,200 in damage. We could have gotten it fixed but decided not to when we were advised that unibody cars are never the same after a wreck like that. So we sold that to the insurance company. I ran a CARFAX on it a couple of months ago, and it has been rebuilt and is being driven in Chicago now. So we drove 3 hours to buy the only decent Celica we could find after waiting for 2 months. That brings me to my current black '98 GT 5-speed.






I started a new job in this car, and a year ago next month, a deer broadsided me in the middle of town. Who gets hit by a deer in the middle of town?!?!?!





$3,250 in damage this time. There was more damage than you see. The window wouldn't stay rolled up, the mirror was jacked up, and the fender had a few dents too. So while that was in the shop, I found out about a '96 ST auto coupe, still running, for $400.









Wrecked, but rebuildable. So I snatched it up, intending to rebuild it, which with estimates I got from the FS thread, I could have done for $1,000. Then I would have had a beater Celica to get me through college and a nice one for the weekends. But I decided I didn't want to pay insurance on 2 Celis, so I parted the coupe out for a hefty profit.

Got my black Celi back, all fixed up and good as new. The last few months, not too much has happened... until tonight. I deer jumped out of a cornfield at me. One that put all the others I've hit to shame. This sucker was huge. Dad would be proud lol. But I didn't kill this one. Barely even hit it. I just got the back legs, which sent it flying through the air into the ditch, with me laughing the whole time. It's bad when I've hit so many deer that I laugh about it.





The bumper is a little messed up, but nothing major. I feel kinda bad for my cars. They go through a lot for me I think I need to move to the city. Oh wait... I hit deer there too!!!!!!!

This post has been edited by richee3: Jul 23, 2009 - 8:46 AM

[pittfirefighter]

not to one up you but my total count for deer is 5... in 3 years... four incidents... i hit two at once... and i even had one ram my black auto while i was parked at a stop sign... look in my profile... the red celi... that was started by a deer... a deer blew out my tire sending my car into a skid over an embankment into a tree... the 3l2 code definitely attracts deer... i think you and i must wear the same cologne