The paint damage is frustrating, but it's going to happen at some point. During the very first drive in my first restoration, I had driven straight about two miles and come to an intersection with a two-lane road at a light. There were two cars crossing through it in front of me. The trailing one decided that the guy in front of him wasn't going fast enough, so passed on the shoulder through the middle of the intersection by flooring it. He of course kicked up a ton of gravel, chipping the paint in two places. All I could do was shrug.
