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Location: North Australia | get to test drive one of these? 
Looks pretty neat.
Steve.
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Location: Branson, MO | Does look neat but I never knew such a thing existed and dad was a dealer back then! Needless to say he never had one.
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Location: Southern Sweden - Sturkö island | Kind of a cool gadget, but surely there must be something missing? Like, a movie screen, tape recorder or something? |
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Location: .Norfolk..Mafia.. ,England UK | Thread Alerted to Moderators as being Non FL Era and in "1955-1961 Forward Look MoPar General Discussion " section
So have moved the thread here to "For Sale - MISCELLANEOUS" |
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Location: Kansas City, KS | Well geez... I guess I'm an old fart and didn't even realize it!
My high school still had these in their drivers ed class as of 1988. There was about 20 in one room and they all faced an 8mm projection screen. The movie was a POV driving down a street. You had to apply the brake according to the correct time in the movie. Being simple antique electronics, you could just apply the brake the entire time and it would register as being used at the correct points giving you a perfect score! (guess how I know that?) |
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Location: Upstate NY | I never saw one of those but in 1965-66 when I wS a junior in HS in Florida, we took drivers ed to reduce our insurance rate (and because you could skip other classes) we drove 1966 Fury III's around a course that was striped on the school grounds. THe only fun of the whple experience was getting to hit the gas hard to pass but there were a set of pedals for the instructor in the front passenger seat that would reduce your speed if you got carried away!!! THe other part of drivers ed back then was viewng films called "signal 30" that were Ohio State Police films of car wrecks. I assume signal 30 meant death or serious injury because they were really bad wrecks with people impaled on the steering wheel or partially out of the front driver door before the door hit a tree. the girls would leave or vomit. THe guys were all laughing. I am absolutely certain this is really not acceptable in todays liberal environment. V |
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Location: NY & VT | I remember those Signal 30 films at Towson High School, totally gross. I can still particularly recall one graphically film shown of a real incident where a driver in a '57 Ford rear-ended a stopped semi at high speed, took the top of the Ford clean off and the driver was decapitated... Yeeeecchh! no way they'd show that stuff today!! That might be a good thing.
One funny incident in Driver's Ed though. We stopped at a light on a busy street and the DE instructor told Alison, the other student in our '67 BelAir DE car, to back up a bit as she was over the white line, so she did. But when the light changed she hit the gas and BAM!! reversed into the grille of car behind us!! She forgotten to shift back into Drive and the instructor hadn't noticed ... red faces all around!
I silently laughed my butt off!
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Location: Muskego, WI | Still had them in my high school in 1997 when I took drivers education, were gone by 1999. |
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Location: WHEELING,WV.>>>HOME OF WWVA | by the time i got my drivers license at 17 i had already been driving for almost 4 yrs. . so i didn't really need drivers-ed . even if i did need it , i probably wouldn't have been scheduled
for the class . you see , at our school , if you weren't a good lookin girl , upper middle class or a jock you never got scheduled , fact -------------------------------------------later |
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Location: central Illinois | Just read in Mopar Action about a 68 Dart "Hemi Under Glass II" that's been restored and is using seats from two of those driver's ed gadgets. |
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Location: Valley Forge, Pa. | Why would we learn on one of them things? Our stone shop class would go out and chisel out some wheels and the wood shop would hollow out a log with holes for our feet and we were good to go. |
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Location: Kansas City, KS | udoittwo - 2016-05-17 7:33 AM
Why would we learn on one of them things? Our stone shop class would go out and chisel out some wheels and the wood shop would hollow out a log with holes for our feet and we were good to go.
Now that's an old fart!
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Location: Valley Forge, Pa. | Man, I remember those! That looks just like my driver's ed car. Good ol' Mr. Gravelpike. Even has the passenger side hi-back seat so he could get as much feet force to the ground as possible. Never had dual steering, the wheel was sort of towards the middle so everyone could steer. I KNOW that is not his car. We sort of drove it off a 100' cliff into a quarry. |
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Location: Upstate NY | Yabadabadoooooooo! |
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