When I was younger I heard my parents talking about our car and they said that the engine was doing backflips, and that it wouldn't turn over. For years I believed that the engine was actually doing Backflips and that it was supposed to turn over. I now know I was wrong(:
A childhood belief about cars

others believed things like this
- After seeing Thomas the Tank Engine, I believed that all the locomotives in the world had a face.— Joe
- I used to think that the engine in a car was only to create a noise to warn others of its arrival— mudspanker
- My uncle used to believe that he would grow up to be a fire engine or a tiger.
If only...— Josh Y. - Once I used to believe that a engineer is a person who drives railway engine.— Gaurav Jain
- my mother told me if i ever swallowed chewing gum i'd turn into a pig, i believed this for many years.— stuart hayward
- i used to believe if i eat fish it would turn my stomach into a fishtank and make me turn into glass.Anon