cars

We used to tell my little brother that the power stations on the moterway were where the trolls lived. when the steam was coming out of them they were cooking old cars from the motorway.

We told him that if you break down on the motorway, you have to sit in your car and hold the steering wheel until the trolls came and flicked you home. when my brother saw a car whizzing past he used to think that they had broken down and had been flicked home. It still makes me laugh now.

la

I used to believe that you were supposed to drive on the line in the middle of the road, so that whenever I saw people driving I thought they were stupid.

Anon

I used to believe that when my parents drove the car the car didn't turn....the world did.. My parents would turn the wheel and it would make the entire world turn so we could get where we were going and the vehicle stayed still....

Sarah

I used to beleive that if you were driving and took your hands on the steering wheel that the car would totally go out of control

heather

I believe there are horses making the car go fast when people told me the horse power of a car.

Jake

i used to believe the moon was following our car while driving at night.

pixie

When I was about seven to nine years old I used to believe that the price that you see on the gas pump from the previous user was what we had to pay. So if it read fifteen bucks, we had to pay fifteen bucks.

Annie

When I was a little, I often used to see one and the same dream. The thing is that strange car chased me, I tried to escape, but car didn't have any barriers. It was really terrible and I still get nervous when I dream something like that.

Olga from Russia, Dubna

I used to believe that "carpooling" meant you were outside the car and pushing/pulling it to your destination.

Anon

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...

LoopyLooLoo

I used to beleive that gasoline was made from dinosaurs.

Anon

During car rides, it would sometimes seem like the Sun was following our car, although this was just an illusion, due to the sun's enourmous size. How did the sun know to follow just our car?

Anon

when i was at the races the indy cars would brake and the wheels would go red and i was told that demons lived in there

Scott Sharples

I grew up in the 70's when cars were very large. They were so large, that I could lay down in the floorboard of the back seat and sleep. Doing this, you could feel every rocking of the car over bumps, etc. I used to think that the roads turned into water and the cars turned into boats. This was, of course, hidden from me because I was a kid.

Boat Car Kid

I used to believe that the road moved, not the car. Kinda like in the Jetsons on the moving walkway. I remember looking down at the road when we were in the car and it looked as if the road was moving, not us! I think I was 3 or 4 years old.

Anon

That when my dad put fuel in the car you could only use petrol from the one petrol company and that if you used fuel from another company your car would break down. I thought the fuel from each company was different

Maree

I used to think that cars were powered by a jet of air which came out of the exhaust.

BadDeal

I once asked my Dad about the blue tinting along the top edge of the windsheild in cars. He told me it happened when they were manufactured because they were dipped in a tank of blue tinting and then when they were lain down all of the tinting ran to the top edge.

jandog

I used to believe when I was little that when driving in a car, the car stayed still, at the top of the world and by using the controls, the world would move.

Romney

I used to believe that freeways never ended, and that if you drove long enough you could go anywhere, even to China!

Amanda