I have a couple other vintage cars that are complete and road-worthy.
They're both nice, and shiny, with chrome bumpers.
Modern drivers are used to driving bumper cars.
Like at the amusement parks of old, they have large plastic bumpers and are designed to bonk into each other at low speeds without damage.
On the phone, texting or watching a cat video, if they happen to bump into another car, it's simply an annoyance.
Opening doors at parking lots or pulling into a space - stuff happens.
Parking spots are getting smaller and cars getting bigger.
Cars are now disposable plastic transportation appliances.
Features are safety, nav, or infotainment in nature.
Collision shops aren't able to source parts to repair a vintage vehicle so you have to fix them yourself.
Old cars don't have LED brake lights, or even a 3rd brake light.
Here, we get run into, even in our regular car, several times a year.
Unless there are injuries the police are not involved, no report or fault is assigned, and, luckily for the insurance companies, your rates go up if you make a claim regardless of whose fault it was.
In tight places like SF, bumping into adjacent cars is a normal part of parking.
Cars are beaten up as part of daily life and for most that's perfectly normal.
Driving my old cars in traffic is a stressful, hectic nightmare of tailgaiters on the phone.
Totally sucks.
Other than events, say cars n' coffee, early, before the idiots emerge, i leave them safe and inside.
Body work in the back yard is just too much work.
If you're going to drive a vintage car, keep it a beater.