I worked my entire 20’s starting various businesses and at 28 I finally achieved a level of success that allowed me to purchase my first high end sports car. At first, I was terrified of all the things in the OP’s list.

Fast forward 5 years and I have owned a number of these cars and no longer give much thought to any of these concerns. I still take proper precautions and always wrap my cars in PPF, park in an end spot away from others, and try to avoid moronic drivers but **** still happens.

Just a couple of days ago a porter at the dealership hit the front of one of my cars and the bumper and fender will need to be repainted and PPF will need to be reapplied... I literally was upset for 30 seconds and then moved on with my day. The kid was terrified he would lose his job and instead of acting like an angry child, I took the opportunity to put the porter’s mind at ease and joke with him and the service manager. Life is too short to worry about this stuff or get all upset when something silly like this occurs.

Life happens and sometimes there is nothing you can do but suck it up and handle it like a professional. Do the best you can to protect yourself and take good care of your possessions but never allow them to own you.

There are very few things that can’t be fixed if damaged or bought again if lost.

depends where. Peninsula is way different - McLarens and Ferraris saturate the area. East bay is another world in my mind

Great attitude.

Thanks guys. While it’s never fun to have something damaged, the way I look at is that the original front bumper PPF was getting a bit tired looking and now it will get repainted and freshly wrapped for free 🙂 Sucks not having the car for a few days but I’m blessed with other cars to play with in the meantime.

Another “fun” story was about 2 years ago an older lady with no insurance backed into one of my other vehicles in a parking lot. She just lost her husband and he was the one that took care of paying all of the bills each month, including the car insurance... Instead of taking this poor woman for whatever she probable had left, I just paid for it out of pocket and we stay in touch to this day. She actually just sent me a Thanksgiving card in the mail and before I moved from IL to CA, she would drop off a box of cookies at my house each Christmas lol...

The point is that these situations suck but if you own one of these cars, you probably have the means to make something right if it is damaged. I find situations like this are a good opportunity to usually interact with someone less fortunate than ourselves and show them that not everyone that owns a nice sports car is a total douchebag.

However, I realize these situations that I have mentioned are often the exception to the rule and there are a lot of a-holes out there that you will need to deal with accordingly. But if a little old lady happens to back into your GT3, go easy on her. There is usually more to that story 🙂

I’ve had those “phobias” in #1 condition hobby cars regardless of value or marque. My solution is to buy #2-#3 condition cars or quickly turn #1 to #2.

Drive/race, maintain, enjoy with others. Rinse, repeat.