My mom would tell us kids to press our hands on the roof of the car as we passed under a bridge. This was to hold up the bridge so it would not fall on us as we passed under it.

love you Mom :)

PJ

I used to believe that cars were alive and their headlights were eyes.

Wiley

When I would be in the car with my parents as a really young kid, and I heard them mention "high beams", I thought they were saying "high beans". I pictured yellow string-beans as part of the car headlights!

Lisa

i used to think the pedestrians were people who had a job to pull a lever that would make the earth move instead of the car being the one to move.

Anonymous Angel

When I was four or five, the theme song to Chevrolet advertisements went "the heartbeat of America is today's Chevrolet". Because of this, I thought that Chevrolet made a different kind of car ever day, for instance, they might make Impalas on Monday, Citations on Tuesday, etc.

Jim

One day while sitting in the back of my mum's car (aged 6 or so), I somehow invented the belief that if we stopped on a bus stop for any reason at all, we'd turn into a taxi, have to take someone wherever they wanted to go, and I'd be late for school. This was quite a fearsome problem, given rush-hour traffic, and that being late was SUCH a taboo...

R

I thought an Automatic car drove itself, like Herbie in the Disney films

Stano

My mother always told me that if i stuck my arm out the window, while she was driving. The other drivers would come along and hit it.... I use to feel very sorry for dogs...

Frightened

I remember being in our behind an old truck going slowly up a steep hill. My dad said that it was going too slowly and that he should change gear. For some years I thought that you had to take a chnage of clothes with you when driving trucks!

Saintly

I used to believe that if you turned the steering wheel round 360 degrees while you were driving, the car would flip over on to its roof.

Alan J.

I was a kid when the FIRST Herbie movies came out, and Wonderbug was on TV. One day after church, someone was using the PA system on their CB in the parking lot. So I realized that some cars could, in fact, be alive and talk. Every Sunday while waiting on the adults, I would go around to different cars and say "hello," hoping one of them would talk back!

ReluctantFiend

Uno that strange whirring sound you hear in a car as it reverses? I use to believe that it must of been something “winding up”, i guess i thought so because of those little toy cars, and because of that i thought a car could only “wind” backwards until the spring could wind no more. Then you had to go forward! I can still remember wondering what diasters could be if you just keep on reversing!!!

Little Silly Silvio "now grown up engineering student LOL"

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

When i was very little i used to be frightened of my dad lifting the bonnet up on the car because i thought the car had opened it,s mouth to eat him.

Heather

I used to believe that if you drove over a banana peel the car would slide off the road.

Anon

When I was very small, my older brother told me that when people got in a Winnebago, they could never get out again. So whenever we drove by one, I always looked at the people in them and felt very sorry.

Bryan

When we would be stuck in a long traffic jam on a highway I thought there must be someone VERY important at the front of this long line of cars and I just assumed that person was Abraham Lincoln.

Sarah Kie

When I was little my brothers told me that if you opened all the doors of a car at once then it will fly away. I didn't really like the sound of that one.

Kelsea

Some sport cars have a double exhaust. I wondered why. Why would people want to pollute twice as much?

F*ck the environment?

When I was little I asked what the parking brake in my mom's car was for, and she said something about it being for hills. For as long as we had that car I was convinced that you pressed the button on the end of that lever to fire rockets out the back of the car to help you get up steep hills.

Amanda