When you get through with the bumping and grinding, and jumping curbs. you will be ready for a wheel alignment or...
I learned on my dads 55 chevy step side Pick Up, and "three on the tree"

this was back in 1960. even had the starter on the floor.
I never heard of Mercedes back then. wish I had discovered them sooner, and the forum.
teaching a new person to drive can be nerv wracking.
Charlie