My father had a '54 chevy with such wipers. He generally only drove it if the whether was nice due to the wipers. The faster he drove, the slower the wipers went.
And on a sidenote, he also had a difficult time finding a mechanic that could work on the car, as many don't know how to work on an engine that old.
As a friend of a few mechanics, i find this hard to swallow. The cars of the 50s are a joy to work on compared to most modern systems. Many will jump to work on a classic for that reason. Only chains are likely to turn an old car away, and you shouldnt be going there to service a classic anyway.
Age differences, possibly. To most folks, a classic car starts in the late 50's - and the engine is basically a simplified version of today's engine - and this is what they generally teach. Not everyone is competent enough to chase down a vacuum leak in the engine to fix whatever symptom it is producing, for example. It is kind of similar to how it is easier to find a doctor than a surgeon - and this is a surgeon specialist. Lots wanted to work on it, but not everyone could. Depending on where we lived, he took it out of town. Surprisingly, sometimes this was in larger towns as well as the smaller ones: It depended more on where had the bigger concentration of enthusiasts.
He had a 1963 truck - for longer than he had the car. It was much easier to find a mechanic.
Having a car that old and keeping it in running, road-worthy shape, seems like a pretty dumb thing to do if you can't keep it maintained yourself, unless you're Jay Leno (and he does a lot of his own work actually despite his wealthiness). You're making yourself utterly dependent on service workers who are very hard to find. Hobbies are great and all, but that's when you're the one actually doing the hobby, not just hiring someone else to do the hobby for you. Doing your own crochet or knitting isn't exactly efficient compared to just buying something machine-made, but I can understand the satisfaction it gives someone to hand-make something like that. However, you don't see any crochet or knitting enthusiasts paying other people to do that work for them; the whole point for them is to do it themselves.
Usually, the only people I see who like ancient cars like that, but who don't actually work on them themselves, are extremely wealthy and have significant private collections. Not just some regular middle-class guy.
It seems to me that it would be dumb to miss out on the enjoyment simply because you can't do all the work yourself. Doing your own knitting usually involves shopping for yarn rather than making your own, for example, and many folks will pay for something hand-knitted that is outside of their own skill level. Cars in a way are similar:
Most folks are like that: Some work they can do, other work they pay folks to do, either because of lack of knowledge or lack of equipment. Dad wasn't any different. Some repairs were winter repairs, but he couldn't do it all, especially in his last few years.
And on a sidenote, he also had a difficult time finding a mechanic that could work on the car, as many don't know how to work on an engine that old.