I used to believe that car exhaust turned the wheels of the car and that pressing the brake pedal would extend a stick that would skid on the road to slow the car.
A childhood belief about cars

others believed things like this
- Pressing on the gas pedal means that your car can do anything...including going up a vertical wall.Anon
- I use to beleive that Motorways had special tarmac on the road that made the wheels go faster— Nada
- I used to believe that when people talked about 4x4 trucks, I thought it meant all the wheels turned.
— tracy - i used to believe that my brain worked like the inside of a clock. How the wheels cranked and turned.— Becky
- I used to think that cars were powered by a jet of air which came out of the exhaust.— BadDeal
- I used to believe clouds were formed by jets and their exhaust. — Olivia