Classic/Antique Car Repair: classic car with two steering wheels., Two steering wheels?!


Question
ok, I know this sounds crazy, and I wasn't hallucinating. My father was a
antique dealer and had lots of old car advertisments.  I remember when i was
in my twentys, there was one of a car that had two steering wheels.  One was
normal then a smaller one that was made for a womans hands. And NO it
wasn't a knob on the steering wheel. It was a one of a kind. It seems , if I
remember that the smaller wheel sat just to the right of the normal steering
wheel. The ad said it was made for women to be able to turn corners easily,
since back then there was no power steering.  My friend thinks I am making
this up. But I swear on my life, My father is deceased now, Damn, it I wish I
would  have kept  that, but he sold everything. I am no dummy in the vintage
car field, I just sold  my 57 Ranchero, and I  had a triumph gt macIII, and still
have my 1970 cougar xr7. I have high hopes someday of owning a nash
metropolitan or a woody morris minor. Please reply with a answer for this, I
want to shove this in my friends face.

Answer
Well, you aren't going to like my answer then.  I'm 75 years old and have been working on and buying and selling old cars since I was 14, including cars from the mid - 1910s to the present time, and the only cars I can recall ever hearing about or seeing in person that had two steering wheels were specially built for use by driving schools - so that the instructor could operate the car from the passenger seat in case the student driver wasn't able to cope without help.  

The last such car I can recall was in about 1950 - since that time, the driver's education cars come with two sets of pedals, but only one steering wheel, at least that I have ever heard about.

A smaller steering wheel would be harder to turn, not easier, by the way.

Maybe in your dreams you are recalling the opening scene on the "Simpsons" TV show, in which the baby is steering with a tiny toy steering wheel alongside her Mom, who is actually driving the car.

Or maybe you are thinking about your XR7 which probably has the swing-away steering wheel that can move over toward the center of the car when you exit the car?

Beyond that, I have no idea what you are imagining.

Sorry,

Dick