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I used to believe that my dad made the windshield wipers work by winking. Later I learned what interval wipers are.
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I used to think the road we lived on was the longest road on the planet. In reality it's about 50 miles long. Today, I drive the length of it regularly when visiting relatives.
I used to believe that the motorway had a special device underneath it that made cars go faster. Now that I think about it, the device was clockwork and had many flashing red lights.
I used to believe that the bands we heard on the radio in the car were live performances. There were little people in the car dashboard. Since my mother listened to the Beatles quite often, I thought there were mini copies of the Beatles living in my car and we could command them to play songs for us. There were also announcers and such.
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I used to think that the engine in a car was only to create a noise to warn others of its arrival
My mother told my little brother and I that the cigarette lighter in the car was a detonation device that would make the car explode.
I was looking around the new Rover my dad had bought when I was about 4, and I saw there was a line that went all around the inside of the roof of the car. I also noticed there was a little box in the roof my dad could remove. I asked my mum what they were for, and she told me so that we could lift the top of the roof off, the car thus being convertible. They never converted it, and I didn't know why...
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I used to believe that there was only one man in the country who put out all the road cones himself.
I felt so sorry for him!!
my first boyfriend tld me that the VW Beetle only had two pedals - the clutch pedal and the accelerator/brake pedal that you had to kick from side-to-side in order to use each function.
I used to think that cars were powered by their exhaust pipes - kind of like a jet engine.
I could never figure out why they didn't need another one on the other side to stop them going around in circles!
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I used to believe that cars were propelled by their exhaust pipes and it made perfect sense to me as ferraris had four and skodas had one little one.
When I was young, we sometimes used to go driving on holiday in Europe. Sometimes there were some very long tunnels under mountains.
I used to believe that when we came out of the other side of the tunnel, we were really still in it but the walls were showing pictures of the outside. Like a big tubular TV.
On motorways the person at the front of the traffic had set out
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I used to believe that cars moved by being blown along by their exhaust (that's why the exhaust pipe points out the back!)