I used to believe that a car needed some ongoing fire to make it go...maybe from hearing about spark plugs? If the fire got out of hand it could cause the car to catch fire, like a lady who drove up to our house with a fire under her hood one day. I was worried about car fires for quite some time.
A childhood belief about cars

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that firemen drove around in their fire trucks and started fires. I wondered why.— Albert
- i used 2 think if u lied your pants would catch on fire cus of the sayin "lier lier pants on fire!"— nell
- I used to believe that the Fire Station was where all fires occurred.Anon
- i always thought it was Grape Balls of Fire instead of Great Balls of Fire— Courtney
- I used to think that fire trucks and ambulances drove all the way back to the station backwards.— Tim
- The first time i heard of someone getting fired from a job, i thought that they were actually set on fire.Anon