Cast your minds back a few months and you 'might' remember a certain red, 28k, absolutely mint condition, '1 owner from new' orion mk2 that my bro-in-law bought for a ridiculous amount of hard earned wonga.

This one.... :









today, after leaving my house and travelling the 5 minute journey down a country lane to his house, he had a short interlude with an inconsiderate bunch of deers who decided to cross the road in front of him on a national speed limit road while he was doing about 50 mph. About 5 of them leaped over a hedge, into the road, and over the hedge the other side. He managed to miss 4 of them but hit the last one square on with the o/s/f corner. Car now looks like this:















Needless to say the lad is f00kin gutted. The cops said hes lucky to be alive. If he had hit a stag then it'd be him that they'd be picking up off the road instead of a dead deer. The woman who witnessed it in the oncoming lane said he did well to dodge the first few. Pity the last one copped it. Car is a mess. It's mad to think how much damage something like this can do. We had to peel the windscreen back out of the car and throw it in the boot, then drive it back with no screen. Must've been a rare sight seeing a white mk2 orion, then a mangled red mk2 with no screen, and a police-escort going to penkridge...

Hopefully it's being dragged to a paintshop tomorrow where his mate trev is gonna pull all the bad bits off, hopefully straighten the front panel and inner wing and await replacement bits. Of all the cars for something like this to happen to - why a fucking 28k minter????

I'm gutted for him.

More to future thinking - has anyone got the following :

88 spec orion front bumper & grill.
Pair of poverty spec wing mirrors.
O/S/F wing.
Bonnet.
Headlight / Indicator.

PM with details....

 

Jeesus that looks bad glad hes ok,

At least its not too dear to get repaired

 

gutted but at least the deers dead,fucking stupid animals,my mate creamed a sheep in his lorry once,fully loaded artic,it was mint,it just exploded with blood everywhere.

 

I feel for him and all but lucky it was only an old orion. He would be more pissed if he was in something good i bet.

 

 

To fuck man

When ami goin to see this saff?

Get kidds to take me up?

 

Dont think you understand how much he loves that car....

Granted its not a S2 Turbo or anything, but he fookin cherishes that thing. Was absolutely spankingly mint. 28k - Still had the paper stickers on the underside of the exhaust from back in 87.

Loving the dear gags already.... His mrs has already been teasing him with a rudolph teddybear....

 

bloody hell...thats gutting! but at least he was ok, could have been worse...lets hope he can get it back to some kind of condition

x

 

hardly the end of the world is it, i understand his feelings but at least it wont cost much to put right.

 

Not nice. if it was my car i would be pissed off whatever it was i was driving means spending money and not good for the deer either

 

Deer oh deer that looks a mess. He not thought about 90-spec'ing the front end now its all smashed up, maybe a cheeky S2 bonnet as well?


Cheers,
Grant

 

Deer me, it doe -snt look too good

Urgh, i can see deer juice

 

Oh deer. Hopefully it won't be too deer to repair, just a few bucks. Sorry couldn't resist it.

 

lucky he never has his old deer in their.

Lucky none the less.

 

what 28k minter

that car obviously looks more like a 31k motor to me

 

No dont remember it sorry


Im not, the car was shite

 

he got off lightly,i hit a deer at 90mph in a mk3 xr3,it anhilated the whole front end,the deer actually left a whole print of its body on the car,there was chewed up grass at the head end and poop at the ass end.

 

thats shit sorry for the bad news

 

did you load the dead curcus into your boot at least you could have had a few dinners and put the money towards the repair

 

hope he picked the deer up at least he can eat well

 

I have no I-Deer how you'll ever recover from that.

 

`
noticed your from bridgend, do you want to borrow some rope so you can fuck off and follow suit

 

soBambis mum got shot, now Bambi has been bonneted

 

i am gutted for you and at least your ok and car hopefully be repaired

 

Deer O deer, hope it gets fixed!

 

gutted fella such a shame.

 

Its stag-ering the damage they can doe!

 

the 1st nice day we get

its at a mates at min seeing if i can get running issue sorted

 

Blimey, that's a fair bit of damage Bambi did there.

 

bad news on the car did you put the deer in the boot venison is worth its weight in gold especially as its been tenderised