Well, we also came from the days of no antilock brakes, no power steering, and other such things. No traction control, etc. Feathering the gas, feathering the brake, car balance, etc, etc. My uncle raced dirt late models, but let me drive around the family property in a POS chevy vega, then moved me up to a hobby stock car on dirt. This was on top of doing some form of driving from a kid in my parents laps, as well as having a gocart, and access to micromidgets. By the time I was really able to "drive" the fuel crunch had made datsuns, nissans, and toyotas the norm, and all the domestics were neutered and choked off due to emissions. I mentioned in a diff thread about how drivers education was in florida (1/2 year of a class period), and i cracked one of my teachers up on the driving course after school one afternoon. I had a nissan 720 series pickup, 5spd, lowered, sticky tires on it, and i was showing him on the parking lot course the heel and toe braking I had learned at the performance course the previous weekend.
I think it should be manditory for high schoolers to spend time in a skidpad car, with and without antilock brakes, in wet and dry. Same with front wheel drive, rear wheel drive, and all wheel drive. So kids can understand the differences.
The first time my antilocks went off in my ford explorer (first vehicle i had with antilocks), i thought i had grenaded a wheel bearing, and it scared the crap out of me.
