240TD vs deer

[yellowrosefarm]

I was coming home from work today at 4 pm on a warm sunny spring afternoon, on a semi urban 4 lane when I see a deer come out from behind a building on the left. It scrabbled and slipped across the other 2 lanes, crossed the median, missed the car to the left of me, slipped one more time and made the fatal plunge in front of my 240TD. By then, I was only going about 25, but there was no where left to go. I felt the impact and saw plastic fly up in the air. I pulled over to see how bad the damage was and a couple of guys stopped and moved the deer carcass into the median. It certainly could have been worse with only the headlight door, turn signal, lower valance, grill and LH fender damaged. I have all the parts to fix it back since I bought the parts car my tan right fender came off of. I guess in a month or so, I'll have a white wagon with a tan front clip It might be a good time to swap the rear hatch too, to get rid of the rusty original one. I'm sure glad the parts 300TD came up when it did, that'll be the best $100 I've spent in a while.