I lived! I was in a 1978 Cessna. The interior reminded me of a really small classic car.

Interior, tiny crappy phone pic

It was really cool. We reached speeds of around 130mph flying pretty low. I had never been in a plane before so it was really cool seeing tiny St. Louis and the forever-stretching empty cornfields. We also flew over the Mississippi River.
Instead of an odometer it had a gauge that read the flight hours. It was over 42,000. That would be 3+ hours of flying every day since 1978!