No, I'm not talking about old men learning to fly- I'm talking about old timer designs like the Spook, Quaker, Playboy, Westerner, Bombshell...

Who's trained on one of these? I took a buddy of mine out to the field earlier this week and put him on a buddy box with my 67" Quaker Flash, and he loved it. The super low speed and nearly hands-off flying characteristics of these older designs makes them ideal for primary training. He did better on his first flight with my Quaker than I've ever seen a new pilot with a conventional box trainer. The only reservation I had about it was that I was a little more concerned with how much speed built up when losing altitude out of a turn, since this plane wasn't built with shear webs on the spars.

Other than that minor modification, I'd have no second thoughts about recomending an old timer design to a newbie.
Anyone else done that from either the student or the instructor standpoint?