Several years ago, while looking to purchase my first Vanagon, I went and
test-drove a Synchro that had hit a deer in the mountains west of Colorado
Springs...The damage to the left front was pretty good; the vanagon looked
like it had hit a telephone pole going about twenty...The lady said she
couldn't bear to drive it after killing a deer in it. She wanted $4k for it,
which seemed like a bunch with a crunched left corner, left headlight, and
broken grille, so I passed.

Joe T.

----Original Message Follows----
From: John Baker <abusguy2@SPRINGMAIL.COM>
Reply-To: abusguy2@SPRINGMAIL.COM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Deer Strike, Stories anyone??
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 13:03:31 -0400

Fri, 12 Oct 2001 11:45:04 -0400 "Spooner, Robert E." wrote:
 >>Had the displeasure of whacking a deer on the way to work this morning<<

Living in SouthWestern Ohio, this is always a great fear for me, especially
this time of year. I took out a 12 point Buck in an old Ch*vy Malibu when I
was in High School, and if my engine hood had not flown open, I'm afraid Mr
Deer would have come through my windshield and impaled me with any one of
those 12 points. It totalled the car. I have always wondered how safe my
Vanagon would be in a head-on collision with a deer or something else,
bigger and gasoline powered. Anyone have any REAL LIFE stories about head
ons in their Vanagon and how you and it fared??

Peace, JB
'66 Split Window Camper
'83 H20 Vanagon

"You cannot simultaneously work for peace and prepare for war..."

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