That is, the truth is, your grandfather’s driver’s schooling.

The Gilmore Automotive Museum is providing classes with its assortment of Ford Mannequin T’s. The three-hour class prices $125 and contains 3 miles of driving across the museum’s 90-acre web site in southwest Michigan, together with a historian-guided tour.

College students learn to function a Mannequin T utilizing its hand controls and three pedals, which the museum describes as “ahead, reverse and ‘I hope I cease!’ ” Crank-starting the automobiles is dealt with by the trainer. “We nonetheless drive within the rain identical to they did in 1908, so gown for the climate,” the museum’s website warns.

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“Consider it as going again to driver’s coaching, old fashioned,” museum curator Jay Follis told MLive. “For this distinct expertise, college students drive a Mannequin T Ford proper out of the museum’s assortment and all through the historic campus.”

Ford Motor Co. constructed greater than 15 million Mannequin T’s from 1908 by means of 1927. Seven of them are among the many greater than 400 automobiles on show on the museum, which opened in 1966.