Caterham vs Pheasant today

[Scotty996T]

Our SV hit a pheasant today - no big deal other than the quirk of it taking out BOTH numberplates, and also itself

Numberplates 2 Pheasant 1

Anyone put a numberplate sticker on the top of the bonnet? Is that legal anymore?

Ta

Scott

[sjmmarsh]

Scott

I have taken out 4 pheasants in 6 years. Two cracked nosecones, one mashed grille and one headlight (a pain to deal with when you have no tools and only one zip-tie!).

I ran a 2/3 - sized sticky plate for 4 years. Never attracted any attention from Police or the MOT - although technically it is illegal (wrong size and a stick-on one). You can get a fine for this but I haven't heard of anyone being done this way.

Interestingly, the fine for having no plates is less than having an illegal one....

Steve

[Fishy Dave]

I have been running with a stick on plate on the nose cone for the past three years with no issues from MOT testers or police.

[casbar]

2/3 rds size plate on my nose cone for 6 years, no issues with MOT or Police. Letters are legal size, just surround is smaller.

[Scotty996T]

Tricky one. Car looks great without but don't want to land any customers in it. Have to admit that the pheasant had talent in taking out the back plate too.

[EVS777]

Afew moons ago I hit a deer in My 205 Gti...a damaged number plate was first on the list of a lot of other parts that needed replacing!!!

Al..

Edited by EVS777 on Tuesday 13th April 06:41

[fergus]

I have a 6" x 1" velcro on plate on my car which is silver lettering on a black background and have never been stopped yet (more through luck than anything else probably)

[Steve-B]

About 5 years ago coming back from Silverstone on the backroads took a rather large pheasant into LF suspension.
Bits, feeathers, etc flew through cockpit ;-) and the carcass landed on Cataclysmic Perverter and cooked all the way back to West Londonium.

Every time the Cat finds its way back onto car for inspection it still smells of raw cooked Pheasant from 5 years ago.

[pw75]

not quite the same but I believe a pigeon got stuck in the roll cage of a roadsport last year. gonna mess with the concentration some what me thinks.

[Bahnstormer]

I hit one directly after having an oil leak.

the bird bent the grille back, missing the number plate and after I stopped I found it dead staring up at me from inside the nosecone !!

and the engine was tarred and feathered....am still finding the feathers !!!

[Eugene7]

Had a stick-on front plate on Eugene for some 20 years...

[GingerWizard]

Eugene7 said:

Had a stick-on front plate on Eugene for some 20 years...

TOY! WANT!!!!!

[The Wookie]

pw75 said:

not quite the same but I believe a pigeon got stuck in the roll cage of a roadsport last year. gonna mess with the concentration some what me thinks.

I once hit a hare at Oulton during testing. Right front suspension...

Messy it was, hmmmm.

[Irish]

Eugene7 said:

Had a stick-on front plate on Eugene for some 20 years...

@Eugene7 - so it was you I met at the recent Herts blat. I was the irish guy who had to make a quick exit. see you at the classic meet.

[Yellow 7]

I ran over an already dead Fox. Straddled it but boy did it slow the car down as I passed over it.
I have a partial undertray wwich helped it pass under the engine bay and it bent the crossbar of the A frame a bit.
By the time i got home from work (hit fox going to work), carrion was hanging off the underside and neighbours cat had a feast before I got to hose it down - even then it was hard to remove travelled dried fox meat - Cat must have thought - payback time! :-)

[pw75]

some ducks and ducklings got unfortunately murdered at oulton couple of weeks back at the top of clay hill in qualy.....survival of the fittest but pretty unpleasant. Not a good idea to walk across the track during qualy. Glad it wasn't me cresting the hill to find a load of ducks wandering across the track.....