Someone decided to side scrape the front bumper corner of my 89 Aries Coupe. Fortunately, the impact was a side rub just forward of any critical sheet metal on the driver side fender, so only plastic and vinyl took the impact. Tore off some of the black paint on the bumper side trim exposing yellow area. Left a black mark on the paint. Very minor, thank goodness. All I have to do is buy a little touch-up black and paint over the yellow. As for the small black mark left on the rosewood color, I just have to live with it. I am just relieved that it left no waves or ripples. Plastic is more durable for small hits. Metal in my car sucks and gets distorted by so much as a pine cone.
This all happened where I was forced to park on a hill. First real hit in over a year. Really wanted to get the guy that just hit me and drove away. The good news is my car did more damage to his paint then he did to mine.