my Dad told me that a car could run on air for 10 miles because it had gremlins in the engine to keep it going - I belived until I ran out of petrol and the car didn't carry on - at all.
A childhood belief about cars

others believed things like this
- When I was young I thought that after pulling out off a petrol station the car would go faster— Amine
- When I asked my dad how bees collect honey he told me that they carry around little tiny buckets. — Shana
- When I was a kid, I used to believe that Gremlins was the sequel to E.T.— Vivian
- when I was little I used to believe that gremlins were real and seeked distroying the world.— Dalton
- 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.