PennSilverTaco's "Perfect 5-Lug Regular Cab" Build, Aspergers, and General BS MegaThread!

They actually do make a pretty good point...

Prius Is The Best Apocalypse Survival Vehicle | Toyota Parts Center (olathetoyota.com)

 

What is a Zoobie...?

 

Back in June I rode the bike from PA down to GA for a memorial service for a fellow FJR owner and rider I knew. On my return trip home on Sunday morning I had left before daybreak and we rolled into TN as the sun was just coming up. I've got my cruise control set at a touch below 80 and suddenly there is just an explosion of white, puffy looking stuff right in front of my face. Reminded me of when you're a kid and you'd blow on those dandelion things and make all the little fibers blow away in the wind. I stood up on my footpegs and leaned forward to look at the front of my bike the best I could. Stuck to the stalk/stem of my left side mirror was part of a bird. I say part because there was no head or feet, just a body. I reached down and flicked the remains off my mirror and glanced over what I could. The legs and feet were laying on my ignition switch so I carefully picked them up and dropped them to the road. There were parts of bird down inside my front fairing where they snuck through my windshield track openings.

That's 2 birds in2 years. One with each mirror now. Thankfully no damage to my windscreen or front body panels.Thought about looking fr some small, stick figure, bird decals to put on my windscreen to count my kills.

 

This was a perfect example of the Darwin Awards in my case. The bird flew out of the bushes on my right and bounced off the the front of my mom's car roughly where the Nissna emblem is located; I honestly don't know if the bird survived, but I highly doubt it...

 

I just ordered a second apron to go with the truck, and I'm probably going to stop at Home Depot and pick up a couple more respirators...

 

I've also got this coming sometime before Halloween, and I plan to permanently leave it on the truck...

 

Both birds flew right into me or into my path of travel. I think they seriously misjudged my rate of travel.

 

So they hit your windshield and not your helmet visor?

 

Last year in Ohio.



This year was pretty similar just on the other side

 

Proportionally probably what a 3rd gen regular cab 5lug would look like if it existed.

 

My friend Doug was hit by a deer in his 2011 Nissan Altima few years ago. The deer ran into the left rear door and amazingly enough didn't damage the door, but its head hit the glass and knocked it right out in one piece. The car needed a new window but was otherwise undamaged.

 

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When my dad flew on P3s in the Navy, there were all sorts of interesting and rather gory bird strikes. Pretty sure an owl flew into a propeller once...

 

Ive seen quite few. Biggest one i saw was a golden eagle got hit. Obliterated it...plane didnt crash but it was messed up. I want to say it messed up an engine.

 

Bird strike tests on jet engines are fun to see, not quite as intense as a fan blade out test though.

 

Was it still airworthy?

 

They IFE'd (in flight emergency) in but it was down for repairs a week or so

 

IFE?

 

I fixed it in post, emergency call to air traffic control tower