I do remember one where you had to go around the screen following a track which had other cars and obstacles including oil spills. It was black and white and the steering wheel was able to turn continuously (no stop point).

I recall that one too, it was almost a plain loop on the screen, with a slight elbow-kink here'n'there and u do laps etc.
That may have been a follow-on from the earlier vertical-scrolling (2 lane) game that i'm thinking of.

The game i played was the first videogame to ever appear in our shopping centre, or anywhere local to us.
It took many months for the crowd to die off before me & my schoolmates got to play it.
( the older guys hogged it for ages).

It cost 10c to play, you had 3 crashes until game-over, and it was woodgrain cabinet, with an endless spinning wheel as AJ mentioned.

Oddly enough, for it's age, it didnt have boxy low-resolution graphics, in fact it was quite smooth and rounded detail on the car bodies and oil spills etc.....
It was NOTHING like the square-boxy graphics on your home TV-Tennis game (square ball, rectangle bats etc).

something to think about...
MM.