Road Kill

[jscorse]

OK,
I see a new thread in the 60' times thread that needs to be "pulled out".

Worst mentally: A LARGE woodchuck that looked me square in the eye as he froze in front of my old car. "THUNK" As he tumbled out from under my car, I thought, well maybe he'll just have a REAL bad headache. Then the bus behind me squished him flat.

Worst damage: Deer at 70mph. $2.0K damage to my '84 Buick Skylark that was worth 2.5K. Deer...cut in two.

Biggest Scare: While lying in back of dad's wagon, head on rear seatback. Figgin' huge COW on side of road, at night, brushed pass at 50mph. Cow was NOT moooving.

Most boring: Morning Dove that DIDN'T move! 'thump'

Most painful: June Bug on arm at 60mph!

take it boys....

[lightning_8669]

<<Biggest Scare: >>

Three Canadian geese. Flying through the landing light beams while I was landing a small plane at night. At 25 feet ahead they looked as big as Buicks.

2nd biggest scare was on a 10 speed bike at around 50mph coming down a hill into a herd of frogs sunning themselves on the road near a creek. They are VERY slippery.

Most disgusting was lake fly hatch out on Lake Winnebago. The antenna on my car was covered with them so thick it looked like a squirrel tail. Saw a guy going the other way on a motorcycle with an open faced helmet. YUM!

[jscorse]

And the deer (large rack) I almost hit with my mountain bike while 'flying' down a loggin' trail

And the deer on RW32 in FIT at dusk. Deer and Pipers don't mix!

and a large turkey vulture at 2000ft.

Pipers and animals in general don't mix.

My dad hit a duck with his Arrow (plane). Said it sounding like the wing blew off. Big dent in the leading edge! Owch!

[lightning_8669]

A guy who flew out of the same port as me was going on his first solo cross country and was about 2 miles from the airport when he collected three pidgeons. Scared him so bad he came back, landed and sat on the main gear and smoked a cigarette. Took off a little while later to complete his flight with a bird still stuffed in his nose gear.

One of my flight instructors flew for a commuter airline here. One day he split a buck in half on landing his Beech 1900. He said it made quite a mess. An understatement I'd say.

[jscorse]

That's one cool new pilot... and some can't handle the door flying open in flight. :( We just lost one a couple of weeks ago. Took a passanger with him.

Just like the car....FLY/DRIVE FIRST!!!

[museumquality]

a huge rattle snake on santa maria road, stretch almost the width of the full road, i hit it, then stopped, looked back saw it floppin around, reversed and backed over its head, i could hear the skull crushing.

i had to back over it and kill it, it was in a populated area, children , and pets around. i bagged it and trashed it. it was HUGE, and heavy.

cut the rattle and saved as a souvenir


jimi -deep fried rattlesnake specialist

[htyei]

highway 5 , migration of yellow butterflies for a good 10 - 20 miles
So many wings .......

[lightning_8669]

<<and some can't handle the door flying open in flight>>

I had my door pop while on my check ride. The examiner liked it that I didn't even flinch, finished my maneuver and reached over and closed it.

Speaking of keeping cool my wife just called. Had a sheet of plywood fly off a truck in front of her in the Interstate this morning. She was apologizing to me for not getting the truck's license number. I told her she had her priorities straight, drive the damn car and worry about insurance later.

[eddycat2000]

Well, the thing that hurt the most for me was one of them great big bumble bees hitting me square in the forehead at about 50 MPH while riding my scooter (motor cycle to youse guys). Felt like someone took a two by four to my head. I had to pull off to the side of the road and wipe the guts and tears outta my eyes.

Oh, and BTW, never-ever under any circumstances ride yer scooter down by a river in the early evening when the bugs are coming out....talk about a full deal meal!:(

[jscorse]

Happend to me a couple of times over the years.

Last time was with my wife. She hasn't flown with me for years. We now have a 3YO in the backseat. Door flys open and she goes crazy.

I calm her down and try a slip to close the door. You know, it never works. So we land. Close the door and go on our merry way. My 3YO could care less. Just a little noisier.

Shook up my wife a little though now that's she's a MOM and all. :))

JP - What do you fly?

p.s. I know this is OT but I just can't help myself..... :rolleyes:

[CGLathrop]

January 4th, about 0730. Rt. 52 in North Dakota. Cruising at about 100mph. I Crest a small hill and on the other side about 100 feet up are deer. Not just 2 or 3.. but about 15. They were on both sides of the road, and in the breakdown lanes.. with two large males looking across at each other. My heart comes to a complete stop... I mash on the brake pedal and start yelling "Deer!, Deer!, Deer!". Not sure why i did that.. I was the only one in the car. Trying to slow down my brain remembers that the deer will freeze (Sometimes) when the horn is honked. So I hold the horn buttons down and cruise between the two males doing about 60. The deer didnt move (Thank the lord). Heart started beeting again when I saw the deer in my rearview mirror, still on the side of the road, staring at my SVX as I pulled farther away. I wish I could have read there minds. Probably would have been "What kind of car is that?"

Chris.

[lightning_8669]

<<What do you fly?

p.s. I know this is OT but I just can't help myself..... >>

Mostly flown C150 and C172s. Haven't flown in a while. Sometimes hard to get the 3 ingredients together. Time, money and weather. The weather in WI can be a problem.

Planning on building a small 2 seater this fall/winter. More of an ultralight than a "real" plane. But with 2 seats it will qualify as experimental. I just don't feel comfortable flying in a rental Cessna that's been in the fleet since the 60's.

As far as off topic goes I don't recall this thread every being "on" topic:D So at least let me put something in about Subaru's. I had an 89 GL (don't go there eddycat) who's side view mirrors were great at sending stuff into the driver's seat. Had one very angry hornet get scooped up roughly by the mirror and sent down the back of my shirt. I probably looked pretty funny on the side of the road trying to get him out before he bit me any more.

[jscorse]

I'm in a partial ownership of a souped Warrior. With 180 horsies, cruise prop, and speed kite she's quite a mover. Great club, relatively low cost. Still, money, time and weather are problems for me too. Gas, at nearly $3/gal is getting to be a REAL drag. :(

Ultralight, awsome! Someday I'd like to build one. Dreams.....

My worst fear....bees in car! I drive with the windows CLOSED! It's so hard to stay focused when a bee, spider, bug of unknown origin is a unwitting passenger. :(

I"m outta here. Gotta go home......

Have a great weekend ALL. And look out for the four legged friends....;)

[lightning_8669]

I knew a guy who put scrubbing pads (same material as in early model SVS trans coolers probably) in his Cessnas vent tubes after having a cloud of bees enter the cockpit one day. They were building a nest in the vent system and when he opened it they were flushed into the cabin. He told me he had "several" stings but managed not to crash.

Have a good weekend.

[svxxx26]

Originally posted by lightning_8669

As far as off topic goes I don't recall this thread every being "on" topic:D So at least let me put something in about Subaru's. I had an 89 GL (don't go there eddycat) who's side view mirrors were great at sending stuff into the driver's seat. Had one very angry hornet get scooped up roughly by the mirror and sent down the back of my shirt. I probably looked pretty funny on the side of the road trying to get him out before he bit me any more.

Since we're talking about critters in the car . . .

I have a habit of taking my trash to work with me in the car and throwing it in the dumpster. Well, one day after work, I get in the car (the Legacy wagon) and as I'm pulling out I THINK I see something move just out of the corner of my eye down on the floor. Naw, I'm just seeing things, I think.
So I'm heading down the Interstate, and suddenly I get this sensation like something is rooting in between my back and the seat! Still, my brain won't accept the input - I'm thinking it's gotta be back spasms - ANYTHING else than something ALIVE in the car with me!
So a little further on, I catch a real glimpse of something black and furry on the passenger side mat - HIT FULL PANIC MODE!
Pull over to the berm, jump out, open all doors, hatch and start throwing out everything in car! (I wonder what passing motorists thought).
After prodding and poking a few minutes, I'm somewhat satisfied that whatever it was has moved on. Yet, as I get back in the car and continue home, I have an unsettled feeling, like I'm still not alone.
So now I'm home and pull into the driveway in front of the garage. Open all doors again for a thorough inspection, empty the car of EVERYTHING - and as I'm walking back out toward the car, here comes a little black MOLE running back into the garage from the car!
Apparently, it had crawled into the trash bag in the garage overnight, traveled to work with me while in the bag and had crawled out before I threw it in the dumpster.

[vkykam]

Originally posted by htyei
highway 5 , migration of yellow butterflies for a good 10 - 20 miles
So many wings .......

That reminds me, on my road trip to Halifax, Nova Scotia, as I was driving through the back country roads at 90MPH, it started off like it was raining a little, turns out it was a bunch of bugs on the windshield.

A minute later, I was hitting bugs like there was a hailstorm. Must've hit a thousand bugs in 10 seconds.

Very very messy...

VK

[tat2skullz]

:eek: Scariest.... Pulling onto a highway that I thought I was familiar with, just after a down pour. Cross two lanes to get the the extreme left, as I was straightening out... swish!!!!! standing water, the drain must have been blocked, no lie, I was at a 90 degree angle, at about 75MPH, facing the center divider! I was still hydroplaining, and the car started to slide back to the correct direction when I caught dry pavement and spun the other way, my front bumper now facing an 18 wheeler, I over corrected 2 more times before I regained control. I never hit a thing! Not a Scratch... after I realized what had happened, and how lucky I was... I started screaming "YEAH!... WHOOOOOOO!!!!!....YEAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!"

What an adreniline rush! Just thinking about it sends my pulse through the roof!

Oh... I then pulled off at the next exit, and called my wife to tell her how much I love her.....

Seth

[Aredubjay]

Thought the "Oil" discussion would be better served in "Technical Q&A" so I moved it over there. Hope no one objects.

[jscorse]

Thanks aredub! Now I don't have to feel guilty about O.T. stuff. You'll just move it to it's rightful place, assuming you have time.

I'm afraid to post questions in the Tech Q&A sometimes for fear of no one replying, but I'm over it.

Thanks.

[Aredubjay]

<<I'm afraid to post questions in the Tech Q&A sometimes for fear of no one replying, but I'm over it.>>

How come? You KNOW you'll get an answer. It may sometimes be wrong, or, it may be a smarta-- one, but, you'll get an answer. :D But, seriously, I got over my fear of asking stupid questions, or repetitive questions on the Yahoo board. I got torched a few times for asking repetitive questions, but, with the absence of a search engine, how's a person to know. That's why I was always eager to answer a "newby's" question. In fact, I had the o-ring fix ready to cut and paste, as well as speaker replacement instructions, brake job instructions and various other "FAQ" stuff. Luckily, now alls I gotta do is suggest an archive search. :)

[jscorse]

Ahhh...home.... home on the range....

[SVXphile]

< here comes a little black MOLE running back into the garage from the car!>

Gee Jerry, I've heard about the mole in the FBI...

.....but the mole in the SVX is a new one to me!

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Jean has hit two deer with her Suzuki Swift GT (we no longer own), each time the deer walked away and left about $300-400 in fender/headlight repair.

I hit one with MY Swift GT (still own), same result.

Last winter Jean nailed a young doe with her Impreza, when the deer jumped off an embankment in front of her. Bambi didn't survive that one. Just a few hundred dollars repair on that one.

We hit so many deer because we drive slowly and cautiously through deer-heavy areas on the mountains. This enables the deer to hear us coming, contact all their friends, and get as many into the road to play "chicken" as possible. None of the local leadfoot 4X4 drivers that I know have ever hit a deer.......I guess the roar of those straightpipes coming down the road scares the deer-do out of them. Every time I try to cross White Oak Mountain at night, you would think it was a game of "name that animal". Every citizen of the forest seems hell-bent in running across the road in front of me. I have to say though, that the two bobcats that I have come upon over the years, were the most interesting!

:) Don

[picklesbitch]

The name and the car just don't go together. What an idea, get a car that's quiet, head out into the backwoods areas for a little "hunting", you don't even need a license! Several hundred dollars in body work, vs. poaching fines! HMMMM....

[SVXphile]

If you are thinking of the little 3-cyl Swift, then you are quite correct. The Swift GT however, was a very different bird. It has a 1300cc twincam with a redline that is near Honda S2000 territory. Motor Trend tricked up one a few years back that sliced through the cones quicker than a Vette. If you watch racing from Australia, they race Swifts down there (called Cultus) and the little suckers are nippin' at the heals of Porsches and BMW's with much more horsepower. On our tight mountain roads, if I hold it about 3500 rpm or above, which is where the engine really comes alive in 3rd gear, the little sucker can fly! Even car nuts many times had no idea about the GT. By the way, the first model was labeled GTi, but Volkswagen had a hissy fit and Suzuki dropped it.
I will post a cool website for the Gt and post it here in a little bit....:) Don

[SVXphile]

Here is a website for Swift Swifts....

http://www.crosswinds.net/~ssgti/main.htm

I am saving my pennies for some parts from Australia. Mainly new shocks, springs, bushings, and tower braces. Good handling is something we can enjoy every day!
:) Don