This is going to be a good thread. We had simulators in high school too, a movie from a dash of a car playing at the front of a trailer/classroom filled with dashboards from something like my Dad's old Caprice. That would alternate each day with 4 of us plus instructor driving around taking turns in a 80's ish Escort POS.
Before that though my Dad one day asked me when I was about 12-13 probably if I would like to steer the car, that old Caprice. Well, it had a bench seat so I slid over next to him and began to steer the car. That continued when he got his '79 Malibu Classic until I got my license. Learned to drive a stick in my Mom's '74 Datsun 610 that later developed a problem with the anti-backfire valve and would backfire after shifting like a bomb going off!
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