The Delinium Falcon was in a collision!!!

[Mbryant]

I am writing this to tell you how impressed I was with the bush bars on the front of my Delica.

On Thursday night I was creeping home in the Muskoka snowstorm when this guy came flying out of a side road in front of me and slammed into a car going the opposite direction to me. The driver hit the other car so hard they both ended up in my lane, in the split second before impact I tried to avoid them without swerving by aiming between them however I hit both of them at their back panels. No one was hurt (except my heart when I got out to look at my Deli).

The other cars were totaled but after the police showed up and all the reports were filled in I managed to back my baby out of the ditch and drive home albeit a bit beat up.

Not sure of all the damage yet but for now both bush bars are wrapped tight to the front of the van, one fog light and one head light is smashed and the passenger front end was pushed in just enough to impinge on the passenger door.

My co-worker and passenger was impressed with the strength of the front bars especially when we saw the damage to the other guys car. I made a comment about wishing this could have happened to our other car but he reminded me that if we had been in a car it would probably been a write off.

So now I start the fun job of getting it repaired and finding parts. Thankfully my insurance agency has been awesome so far.

Michael

[Golf Cart]

Glad to hear of no injuries.

I guess you could say the Delinium Falcon was a little Chewied up ?


Cheers

[jessef]

Glad to hear you guys are okay.

Knock out a few dents and good as new

[FalcoColumbarius]

Sorry to hear of your experience but glad to hear of your survival. Before I purchased the Miss Lil' Bitchi I did a fair amount of research on the crash test results for the Delica L-300. Some of them were pretty gruesome but were also extreme and unlikely situations. Overall the biggest criticism was what the Delica did to the other vehicle. Apart from the added panel bars of later models, the height of the carriage helps, too ~ as typically you sit higher than the other vehicle.

If, however, you happen to be travelling at 3.8 parsecs and run into a singularity whilst being hit by a proton torpedo, especially if your shields are down ~ then you are SOL ~ but the bambie bars might survive. I consider it a flaw in the original design, a sort of achilles heel, as it were... .

Falco.

[bigbird]

WHAT?! What the hell did I get up to last night?!?!?!?! Holy Christmas party!..........(After looking outside and clearing cobwebs from head).......YES! I was not in a collision!!!!!! Never the less I'm glad to hear that the Falcon Mark II (Falcon East, Falcon Ontario edition....) survived and for the most part is intact! Great handle btw! Live long and prosper!.......Hahaha....Just kidding! Punch it Chewy!

[Mbryant]

What are you telling me you call your van the Delinium Falcon as well? Oh man so sorry I did a search to see if anyone else named their van after my fav star wars ship but found nothing.

Hope we can share the name and I will try to indicate mine as the Planet Hoth version or perhaps the Waampa on wheels, or just the mark II. Hope the note didn't scare you this morning!

Yeah no "live long and prosper" business that's for sure. (Just kidding I am bit of a Trekky as well)

[bigbird]

In this case there can be only 2!!!!! Or how ever many other people wish to name there Delis after the Falcons!........I can't really blame them. It is the greatest name ever...........EVER! Delinnium Falcon West out.