Have you ever hit an animal with your sports car?
 

My Z tried to hug a little birdie yesterday..... I stopped a half mile down the road to see if there was a bird stuck in my grille. This was the only evidence! 4 or 5 feathers stuck in there... it looked like my Z had eyelashes!


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Have any of you hit an animal with your sports car?

yah, my Z sped up when she saw a stupid bird in the middle of the road. :p

my car rolled down the driveway once and slide into my friend's mustang

Haha...I actually hit a bird while driving on a parkway in mid flight a few days ago. It just kind of skimmed off the glass and top of the roof. Luckily it on only left a small scuff mark on the roof (came of with some polish).

not in my Z but one of my earlier cars a bird smashed into the side mirror and it was a mess to clean the passenger side window.... ewww... :icon14:

I try very hard to miss animals. I once swerved to avoid a raccoon on a highway off-ramp in a Fiero, then it did a 180 and ran back towards me, and I then had to swerve back to avoid it.

I also once had to stop for a 7-pt buck on a military base in a Miata. He just stood and stared, like "what's that little thing gonna do to me?"

And I once screeched to a halt in front of a flock of birds that were picking at garbage in the road. I crept up, I assumed they'd all flown away, so after a minute I accelerated, and *bump* added feathers to my grill.

Almost, damn squirrel got in front of my lambo.

hahahaha! :rofl2: i call those RC-mice because its tail looks like a RC car antenna and has super handling left/right.

ive run over a couple of those as well. :(

Let me see! I've ran over two Squirrels one Jack Rabbit and a Road Runner. Lol

Canyon Carving sometimes involves taking out little critters to stupid to stay off the road.

I hit a coyote with my Audi a few years back. It ran out in front and it's head hit the right headlight. Cracked the headlight, and one of the lower grill pieces popped out. The coyote was also cracked.

Hit a rabbit a few weeks ago with the Z. Poor bastard ran right out in front of me and pegged him pretty good. Left a bunch of fur stuck to the front spoiler.

i hit a fat cat in my civic over a decade ago. the car flipped.

;)

hahaha great responses so far, keep em coming

I don't know whether to take this seriously or not...:confused: considering that it's the Kenchan...I think not.

Hit a large female Rottweiler in my BMW 320i... Unfortunately she had already been struck once and was laying in the road with her back to me.. It was night and i didn't see her until it was too late. :(

I hit an already dead raccoon. Couldn't avoid it. It splattered all over my rear diff. When I got home it was like bacon. Yum.

I hit a raccoon in my Miata.
My car has less than 3" of clearance, so I could actually feel the animal under the floorboards as I ran over it. One of my fog lights was destroyed and the plastic supports for the grille were all cracked and broken, but the doors didn't have a scratch on them.

Me too. That's always wonderful

Hahaha, I did hit a fat cat in my old civic and it broke the lip and the cat took off without stopping. :mad: hit and run bastard. I hate fat cats. :mad:

Ouch. When I ran over the RC-mice I could hear its bones shattering and grinding while feeling it through the steering wheel... it felt like I ran over some larger pebbles. :ugh2:

Car encounters
 

Deer. Car total. Deer dead. True to form about a deer in the headlights...they don't move!

A birdie tried flying under my car yesterday. Poor thing didn't make it :(

That sounds like a sticky situation :yum:

I ran over a dogs head with my Harley.:icon14:

I used to hit numerous bats in my 1967 Datsun roadster when I lived back in Virginia in 1979 - 1981. A couple of time I found them wedged in the grill and once one got caught in the slipstream over the windshield and hit me on top of my head, taking my hat off. Bats give me the creeps.

The worst was when a buddy of mine and I were driving up 101 toward Humboldt County in 1978 in his brand new Spitfire 1500 that Daddy bought for him. (We had our own reasons for that particular road trip).

Somewhere north of Garberville we were on a 2 lane part of the road (very windy throught the ancient redwood forests) and it was about 2 AM. Suddenly, the car felt like it was launching into the air and we heard this huge thud/crunch noise. So he pulled over immediately and we got out to find the entire passenger side covered in guts/blood, etc. Inside the wheel wells was more of the same gore.

We then backtracked to find out if we had killed somebody and found a deer carcass with fresh tire tracks on it. Someone must of hit it before and Brad (my buddy) was not paying close enough attention, I suppose, and we ran over it again. Amazingly, the Spitfire was unscathed, something I would have thought impossible.

These ae my only "hitting animals in sprts cars" stories. Thank you for reading.

Something about your picture makes me want to put it up as a wallpaper. :yum:

I hit a frog with my '95 Trans Am once.

I hit a deer going to Texas tech once in my 300zx. I was going about 50 coming out of a small town when a deer jumped over the east bound car and landed in front of me. Hit the brakes but still was going 40+. Since the car was lowered and already a giant wedge, the only damage was a dented hood. The deer flew about 30-40 feet over the car. Stupid thing got up and walked away.

A moronic deer ran into the side of my 350Z once. Damn thing was standing still, looking at me from the side of the road, and then took off RIGHT at me. I tried to accelerate and steer out of the way (going around a curve at the time) and it kept turning to come at me. Ran right into the side of me, I was face-to-face with it out my side window.

Surprisingly very little damage. Deer spit on my A-pillar and a leg dent on my rear fender which I got PDR'ed out.

I took up deer hunting shortly thereafter ;)

The car was Lemans Sunset

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Idiot might have been trying to mate with it or thought I was on it's turf.

took on a racoon.. came to a stop it went rolling....

Nailed one bird.
Nailed 2 skunk at once in the middle of the road after a corner. Left no smell or damage. I got lucky. All I heard was some thumps.

I hit my neighbor's dog with a corvette... He didn't exactly walk away from that one...

Today, I reenacted kenchan's bird hitting the mirror story, without gore, though. It flew across in front of me, realized it was about to hit a car comin the other way, did a 180 and got clipped by the plastic mirror cover right next to my sister in the passnger seat

Every animal you fellows have missed, I think I hit. I have hit too many to list. A raccoon that got stuck in the wheel well of my 280Z for a couple hundred yards, Thump thump thump..... I can still hear it. A seagull that came through the windshield of a rental Mustang, oh wait you said sports car, sorry. A deer that tried to jump over my 300ZX to avoid being hit almost made it. I caught his front hoofs with the left side frame of the wind screen flipped him and landed hoofs onto the top of the right side spoiler. 3 inches higher and he'd a made it, poor thing.

This one buffed out for cheap.

While driving “spirited” a few birds few in front of my car…. Didn’t think too much of it until the next week when I was washing my car and found a dead bird stuck to my radiator. If you look closely in the pic, you’ll see the little guy. I tried to pull him back through the grill and he fell apart. So I had to drop the front plastic to get the parts out.

:icon18: hahaha.


when i lived in an apartment more than a decade ago, some animal came and took care of that for me. while i knew i hit a bird while carving canyons, i didnt know i carried it home inside my bumper. i found feathers all under the car and at first i was scratching my head... then.. :rofl2:

Nice.

Nah I live in southern california. The only animals around here are the ones with shaved heads and baggy pants killing eachother in the streets. I would hate to hit something like that and have to scrape that sh!t off my car.

:icon18: Why I moved.

Hit something this morning. Not sure what it was. It was dark. Its amazing how much a small animal can upset your car. But I was going about 60 though.