I believe there are horses making the car go fast when people told me the horse power of a car.
A childhood belief about cars

others believed things like this
- I use to believe the sound that a car made when it was running low on gas was what they called horse power...— Bianca
- I have always lived very near to a power station, and I used to believe it was a cloud making machine.— Kirsty Martindale
- When I was little I thought cows married horses, cows were all female and horses were all male. — Sheila
- I used to think that beer was horse pee. Probably because that's what my mom told me...— Kara
- I was always told that beer was made from horse pee.— Just me
- My mother told me chewing gum was made from horses hooves!Anon