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Old Jan 31, 2008 | 04:34 PM
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Well, I was on my way home last friday night about 1 in the morning from hanging out with friends. I was going down into a deep gorge called Twin Bridges. Right as I was rounding the second to last corner before the straight stretch, a deer ran out onto the road at the last second. Needless to say, I could not stop in time to keep front hit the doe. Lucky for me, that Sunday I had gotten a heavy duty brush/grill guard froma friend for free, and I had welded it onto the frame. When I hit the doe, it bent one of the bars on the guard. I had also bolted it to the sub-frameof my sport bumper. Well, it bent the brackets on the sub-frame to whereI cannot open the hood on the truck. It busted 2 of my 4Baja off-road lightsthat I had put on it, as well as the angle iron that they was bolted to.It also knocked the left side inserts out of the grill and cracked the plastic on the right side. So, if anyone has a sport grill out there for a 99-01 sport ram, I would greatly appreciate it. I was mad, but I would have been pissed if the deer had lived, gotten up and ran off.

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Old Jan 31, 2008 | 04:41 PM
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Glad you were not hurt.....
 
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Old Jan 31, 2008 | 04:48 PM
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I'll get some pictures on here either tomorrow or Saturday. I'm glad I had the guard put on it, because like Indy, I would just have cried to what damage it would have done. I would maybe had to replace the lights, bumper, grille, fenders, hood, radiator, a/c cooler, trans. oil cooler, and etc. How much does a sport grille for a 2000 sport ram run for anyway?
 
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Old Jan 31, 2008 | 05:13 PM
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I looked on eBay for you, can't find a single thing. All they have there are the inserts.

I'll keep looking around the web for ya. They're here somewhere...

EDIT: Oh, and by the way, glad you're OK.
 
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