Anytime anyone said we were "going over a bridge", I would freak out. I thought we were going to drive over the metal frame of the bridge, like a rollercoaster.

Anon

When I was younger, and watched old movies of people driving cars and moving the steering wheel left and right rapidly, I beleived that the faster they moved the wheel the faster the car actually went.

Anon

When I was like 3, I went to see Barney Live in Rockefeller Center. My mom told me we were gonna go through the tunnels. I imagined us crawling through a like pitch black touch tunnel. I fell asleep on the ride, so I was mad until I was like 10 because I thought I missed the fun!

Touch Tunnel ThreeYear Old

When I was about five, a friend of ours took us in her car one day through a "ford", where cars drove through the water. After driving through it ourselves we sat in an adjacent field and watched all the cars driving through the ford, which really fascinated me. There was a road sign saying “Ford” as you drove up to it. After that, whenever I saw a Ford car showroom by the roadside, with the “Ford” sign, I thought that meant it was a ford as in an expanse of water.

Alan, Sheffield

I used to think that if you left your car running with the keys in the ignition, that it would drive off by itself.

Toujin

Until recently, I believed that the mud shields under a car were the brakes!!! Like a bike, I thought that when the brake was pressed, the mud shields would push onto the wheel and stop the car. I only realised that they were not the brakes, when I thought to myself that I never see them moving!!! Duh.

F

When I was little my mom used to tell my younger brother and me that the car wouldn't start or go unless we had our seatbelts on. We believed this up until we were like 10 or 11. Fortunately though it always keeps us wearing seatbelts even when 15 years later we are now driving.

Belted in for safety

I was always too short to properly see out the windows of the car, and wasn't allowed to sit in the front, so I never saw out that way either. Now, have you ever seen a movie that shows a person driving down a perfectly straight stretch of road while turning the steering wheel madly back and forth? These two things in combination led me to believe, for a while, that whatever let the wheels of the car turn wasn't really connected to anything. They just sort of floated around by themselves, and you had to turn the wheel in order to keep them pointing in a straight line so the car would stay on the road.

Mily

I used to believe that cars were just like people, in the fact that the front of the car looked just like a person, with the eyes being the lights and the grill being its mouth. Each car seemed to have a different look to it, so I thought that each person in the world had a car that looked just like their face or personality.

Matt

I used to like to watch Laverne and Shirley when I was little. In the opening credits, it showed them working in some kind of bottle factory, and one of them would stick there glove on a bottle as it passed through the factory (does anyone remember this?) Well, when me and my sister were little and fighting over something in the car, my dad would say, "give me that, I'm putting it in the glove compartment". I used to cry and get totally freaked out because i thought the glove compartment was where Laverne and Shirley worked and that I would never see my toy again.

christina

I use to believe those plastic bins that people put on top of their cars were Big Mac containers from McDonalds. I would always want one of those giant Big Macs

Anon

I used to think that the side of the road that i was driving on to go somewhere meant that everyone else was going away from their homes and going somewhere too. And the other side of the road that i wasn't traveling on meant everyone was going home from being somewhere else.

Rachelle

i thoght that my parents car talked to me , when my parents sent that car to the dump i creid and had a going away pary for the car.

rachel A.K.A. supergirl

When I was little, I always thought that when ever the car would stop (at stop lights) that mom or dad were just letting the car rest.

Amber

Maybe it was because I used to play with Hotwheels when I was little, but I always thought that cars were puched by Adam and Eve and the angels, who were all invisible. Gasoline and engines never entered my mind. And why Adam and Eve? Who knows.

Tater

I used to believe that cars are like us humans. With feelings and thoughts in their 'mind'. I would look at a car [for eg. a squared old car] and classify it as vintage and immediately i would think of old people. Whenever i see real cool cars [like Ford convertible] the image of handsome would appear. I, too usd to think that the cars will compete for the best like us humans. Wild eh? My dad knew of this belief of mine, so he would ask for my opinion before buying a new car. What do you know? I guess this belief was some good after all since i now have a 'honest-looking' car...

Felicia

I use to believe my moms car would come to life at night and dance around on the back wheels when everyone was sleeping and i would always peep out the window.

Jeremy