Re: driver aids
It sounds like you need my wife’s 1959 Austin-Healey “Frogeye” Sprite:
The indicators are a non self-cancelling dashboard mounted switch. No modern, nanny-state, snowflake, safety gimmicks like ABS, side impact bars, airbags, side or rear windows, roof, roll-bars or seatbelts; all UK legal on a car that age. You don’t even have to have one of those fussy MoT inspectors crawl all over it each year*.
Driver aids like electric screen wash, power steering or synchromesh on 1st and 2nd are absent but, let’s face it, if you can’t heel-and-toe to provide the throttle blip during a double-declutch whilst braking and changing down, then you shouldn’t be driving.
It does have one modern feature: keyless entry. No key, locks or even exterior door handles; you just reach inside and open from there.
Seriously though, do we ferry our children around in it? Not a chance! But, if they want, we will teach them how to drive it when they’re old enough (and yes, the change-down whilst braking is as described).
As a daily-drive it would be hell, but as a bit of summer fun it gives you a smile to match its own.
*Despite being pre-1960, hers does need an MoT because it’s had some modifications.