Hit a deer - no damage!!!!
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From: Lenoir City Tennessee
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I try to straddle nothing in the vette. My drive back and forth to work is 31 miles each way with about 30 of it through the country. I drive mine every day. You can imagine the number of dead animals on the road. I found out real quick you cannot straddle a dead anything in the road with a vette. I would say you did get lucky with the deer.
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I had a similar thing happen 2 years ago driving thru the Pocono Mts in PA on my way to Bowling Green . It was pouring about 1 in the morning and I was behind a couple 18 wheelers - all of a sudden out of no where is a dead dear layed out on the hiway - I had no choice but to run over it's shoulder - the thump woke my wife and scared the hell out of both of us. i pulled over under a bridge overpass fearing the worse - thank god no damage at all not even a scratch - but there were tuffs of hair under the car and around the passenger wheel well. When we got back from Bowling Green I immediately got the lo & hi beam HIDS .
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Close call - good that there was no damage to your car. 
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Everything seems to be ok since then. Man was I ever lucky
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From: Lothian MD
Wow, this is depressing. Reminds me (I had forgotten about it) a few years ago I had a deer (broad daylight) jump over the hood of my truck. Saw him coming, started to adjust my speed, tapped the brakes hard when he was in the air, and he just cleared my windshield. It's like the whole thing played out in very slow motion. I was very lucky that day. Everyone stay safe out there.
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From: LAND OF OZ Kansas
The same thing happened to me, and I'm only lowered on stock bolts
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