cars

Ever heard of the Runcorn bridge in Cheshire, England? Runcorn is my home town. If you've never heard of it, just picture the Sydney Harbour Bridge, it looks identical except it's green and the Sydney one is just slightly bigger. Got that? Well the bridge dominates the Runcorn skyline, and when I was very small I used to think that cars actually drove over the top of the arch of the bridge (you couldn't see the road from my part of town). I got quite a surprise the first time I actually went across on the road, but also felt a bit let down!

Mark Whitworth

I used to believe that cars grew and that our car would grow to big to go under the McDonalds drive-thru.

Mary Ellen

I thought that the bright headlights of cars just automatically went dim when another car was approaching. Back then, cars had the dimmer switch for the headlights on the floor, so I never saw my father using it to dim the lights.

Cara

When i was around three, i thought the way you turned a car was by turning the blinker on, and that if you turned the blinker one way and turned the wheel the other the car would crash

Pyro

I used to believe that when you drove past other cars at night, you had to count them with a number ticker thing - that was the only explanation I had for the clicking noise our car made when we passed an oncoming car. The noise was of course my father dimming his headlights so that he wouldn't blind other drivers.

Tiffany

I used to believe that you were allowed to drive as fast as you wanted through tunnels. I still believe it was my dad who told me this, he refuses though...

Anon

I used to believe that the only people who rode in limos were famous. Every time one passed by our car I would try to sit and act in a way that I thought would impress some movie hot shot. I thought they would track me down through our license plate and ask me to be the next child star!

Liza P.

I used to believe that the cats eyes in the road...reflectors...were the eyeballs from real cats.

Liza P.

My bedroom window faced the street outside, and I thought that the cars that passed outside at night were driven by maniac people who had the power to know if I was still awake and moving around in bed , and that they would come deliberately plowing into the wall with the car if they sensed me. As long as the headlights didn't graze me I would be okay.

Ghostibelle

I used to think that the streetlights propelled cars along the highway at night. I saw the refracted light in the glass and thought they were rays of light that somehow pushed the car. I'm not sure how I thought we got around during the day.

Anon

When I was really young, I used to play with gear shift when the car wasn't running. To make me stop, my mom told me that if I played with it, the car would implode. I believed it till I was 12!

Tia

When I was about 4 years old, I used to believe that when my Dad and I went to a gas station to fill the car up with more gas, the car could go faster again.

Melody

The front of the car was always NORTH.

Anon

When I was about 6 or 7 my brother was about 16 at the time, and just got his "automatic" car, and I always thought that automatic cars drove themself..

Dusty

My mother told me she used to believe that the it was the pavement on the street that moved the cars, and not the cars that drove themselves...

Vickie

That when u opened all the windows on just one side of the car the wind would make it tip over.

Schmackalie

i used to believe that in cars which had air conditioning, metal hands would come down and condition your hair!

Lauren W

As a little boy crazy about cars, i always wondered why cars had their engines in the front and only the VW beetle made sense to me because it had its engine in the back. after all an engine MUST be ib the back to "push" the car just as i push my toy model cars from the back.

kenneth

When we used to go on holiday, I used to think that all the cars in the same lanes as us were going to the same place and always asked if there would be room for us when we got there!!

kate

i thought that the 1977 bonneville that we had in the mid 1980s was really a limosine. i went to a catholic school with a bunch of rich kids (my parents worked hard to send us there) so i felt like i fit in cuz i thought it was a limo. a mustard colored limo.

DeVille