I remember at the GM Proving Ground a test car hit a duck at about 120 mph and it smashed the carburetor.
I grew up just down the hill from the GM proving grounds in Milford. My buddy and I took his 72 Charger with a built 440 down that hill wide open one day, didn’t know how fast we were going but we hit a sparrow Just before Spencer Rd where the hill starts to flatten out.
We actually felt the thump pretty good for a small bird, then about 1 second later a small puff of tiny feathers came through his vents, he almost wrecked it when he started laughing hard.
It’s a wonder we ever lived to see 21...