despite weighing 2 tons, the flinstone car still tips over when served with dino ribs on one side..😂

@MaxBrix

Ай бұрын

That is a lot of dino ribs.

@anathardayaldar

Ай бұрын

That proves the wheels were hollow. Maybe grey colored wood.

@ralanham76

Ай бұрын

​@@anathardayaldaryup, they were really dirty.

@mikekeltner4291

Ай бұрын

Brontosaurus ribs . Dino was the size of a big dog

@rednick4143

Ай бұрын

That would mean the ribs weighed over 2 tons!

What people don't realize is Fred Flintstone was strong. He works in a rock quarry and his foot power is off the scale. Also, remember he could pick up the car and turn it around

So happy I found this show. It scratches an itch that hasn't been scratched in many years. Must have more!

@azurekite3870

Ай бұрын

but sadly it ended though.

@lesliegrace8360

24 күн бұрын

Grant is missed.

They did it wrong. It was made out of prehistoric pumice stone and balsa wood. The power to weight ratio was like nothing seen before. 😊

@bigfrankfraser1391

2 ай бұрын

not to mention in the cartoon it appears that the whole thing sits higher from the ground, meaning your legs are more at a 135 degree angle than a 90 degree

@JasonRayShute

2 ай бұрын

@@bigfrankfraser1391 that's a good point. The range and angle of motion would have definitely been a factor to consider.

@bigfrankfraser1391

Ай бұрын

@@JasonRayShute exactly, i always hated mythbusters when they missed the obvious

@unknownlifeform5884

Ай бұрын

and they should drive on dirt road, not asphalt road..

@thesecondguywhoknowsthings7154

Ай бұрын

How to say your an engineer without saying your an engineer

We live 6 miles from the Bedrock park 30 miles from the Grand Canyon. The park was sold several years ago. Due to copyright restrictions they changed the name to Raptor ranch. Still really cool now includes live raptors and stays true to Bedrock. Debbie and Troy the owners are wonderful people ready to show your family a great time.

@MaxBrix

Ай бұрын

Live raptors?

@mikep490

Ай бұрын

@@MaxBrix Yes, live raptors... birds.

The three toes were the result of driving a car with stone wheels, barefoot lol, he had five when he first got his license

@abdul-kabiralegbe5660

Ай бұрын

😂😂😂

@juancarlossoto3748

Ай бұрын

One question for you, when you mentioned the sentence "he had five when he first got his license." Wouldn't it look better if we wrote the same sentence like this: "He was five years old when he first got his license"? We say age in English using the verb "To Be". Greetings and I really liked your comment, it made me laugh a lot.

@dh2032

Ай бұрын

@@juancarlossoto3748 I think missing the point or tow/finger of what was being said, it cartoonist thing to only draw three finger on a hand, (like drawing 25 frames a second, you only the absolute minimum needed

@worawatli8952

Ай бұрын

it could really eat their feet if it rolls back

@captin3149

22 күн бұрын

@@juancarlossoto3748 'He had five toes' not 'he was five years old'

They completly forgot about the live action Flinstones 1994 movie with John Goodman, Rick Moranis, Elizabeth Perkins, and Rosie O'Donnell. Which already made a car. They just had more special affects...

@bsanchez3563

22 күн бұрын

Woah... sweet :)

@The-Ford-Guy

14 күн бұрын

Not to mention the prequel "Viva Rock Vegas"

@VidelxSpopovich

14 күн бұрын

Effects.

@greenergenes

12 күн бұрын

effects

In the cartoon those seats were made stone too. They would add a lot of weight to the Flintmobile.

I had a similar experience to Tory. I had a 73 Dodge Challenger with a standard dash which I changed to a Rallye dash, but I wanted it to display the correct original mileage. I got the same result after changing the mileage on the new odometer, it changed by 1000 miles at a time. I took it back apart and upon further inspection discovered it was a simple reassembly error. I fixed the error and it worked perfectly, and bingo I had the original correct mileage and a working odometer.

Something to consider, you guys tested this on modern paved roads. If i recall the show the roads were not yet made from concrete or asphalt. I would imagine that concrete wheels would hold up a lot better on a dirt road.

Hearing Tory does bring back some good memories

"scratches at level 4, deeper grooves at level 5" oh was it just me?

@ThePatente

2 ай бұрын

You got it my Man. 🤣

@RighteousnessWillPrevail

Ай бұрын

Why 666 in your name? It's sad that so many people decide to indulge in the bad side of life. Lost souls....

@speedbrain666

Ай бұрын

@@RighteousnessWillPrevail The number 666 is a positive and transformative message from the celestial realm, representing self-discovery and spiritual essence.

@speedbrain666

Ай бұрын

@@RighteousnessWillPrevail The number 666 is often associated with the number of the beast and is commonly misunderstood as a negative or evil omen. However, in the realm of angel numbers and spiritual symbolism, its significance is far more positive and enlightening.

@chrismartin6427

Ай бұрын

Jerry

When I was a kid I used to think the Flintstones steered like a tank but using there feet! You “pedal” both feet (to go straight) and when you want to turn Right that means your right foots stops, digs into the ground to pivot & left foot keeps “pedaling” Hahaha 🤘👽👽👽

It is theorized that the Jetsons predates the Flintstones, and some cosmic event knocked society back to the Stone Age. This is why the recreation of "historical" objects is being attempted with the tools and equipment readily available.

@tricorvus2673

Ай бұрын

❤👍🏻

@legionofanon

Ай бұрын

I feel like i read another theory that they existed at the same time, half of society in space and the other half still on the ground

At some point someone should have told her concrete is composed mostly of limestone. She literally spent that whole time testing limestone to limestone to see if they were similar.

Didn't expect a whole segment on "Fred's girth."

@xTerminatorAndy

Ай бұрын

HIS' probably wasn't a small mushroom

I love the Flintstones. I grew up watching them and saying Yabba Dabba Do! To see the Flintmobile built for real is cool. Too bad you can't power it like Fred did, or stop it like Fred did. lol

If you watched carefully, the back wheel split at the point between 2 pourings. Also, did you notice that the FRONT wheel didn't show nearly as much damage as the back? It looks like the back wheel cement wasn't mixed correctly. All that said, what a FUN experiment!

They should have made Barney's car if I remember right it had wheels.

@skeetermcswagger0U812

2 ай бұрын

That is true,...not as iconic but accurate. It also makes more sense to make a car like Barney's sinse in the end it's just gonna be Rubble......😊

@Rotorhead1651

Ай бұрын

​@@skeetermcswagger0U812 *since

@surferdude4487

Ай бұрын

It was powered by a little dinosaur on a tread-mill in the trunk.

Tori making the wheels by Hand is very much like Jamie hand making many of the parts he did during the original run

Why wasn't it tested on a soft dirt road like it would have been in the flintstones. Of course the wheels broke, there was no give in the road.

@DenverStarkey

Ай бұрын

actualy it's arguable that asphalt has more give than a packed down dirt road would have.

@michaelallen1432

Ай бұрын

That road would have been compacted due to the stone rollers going over it all day long.

@VelocityUrbexadventures

14 күн бұрын

...and the wheels were made from bedrock in the Flinstone's world.

Remember the episode where jewel thieves hid the diamonds in their wheels? Those rollers were hollow!! Also, they had engines in other episodes. Barny built an "Indy 500" car powered by a mid engined dinosaur. You have to take cartoons with a grain of salt.

@AffordBindEquipment

Ай бұрын

WHAT?! That can't be done? I'm totally disillusioned....

@09hicktown

28 күн бұрын

Shocking information that cartoons arent real

Who Else Was Like OK Lets get it to highway speeds and watch it violently rip Apart... They Missed Such An Opportunity there!

If U look carefully, the Flintstone car drove on compacted dirt roads, which I think it could handle.

@cyclops8238

Ай бұрын

Plus I've always thought that the wheels were made out of wood rather than Stone. It would weigh a lot less and be easier for Fred to replace should one of the wheels break rather than carving a new stone wheel every time.

@surferdude4487

Ай бұрын

@@cyclops8238 Sorry, no. those wheels were made of stone.

@surferdude4487

Ай бұрын

Since the wheels of the cars were stone rollers, yes, the roads were compacted dirt.

"Flintstones meet the Flintstones!" WILLLLLLLMMMMMMMMMMMMMMA!

@Rotorhead1651

Ай бұрын

*WIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIILMAAAAAAAAAAA!

What's funny is that they never once addressed the fact that it would be impossible to steer the thing, haha. Grew up a massive fan of The Flintstones, and still a fan to this day.

@minicoopertn

2 ай бұрын

They would have to have a split wheel design where you could just apply brakes to one side to steer like a tank steers.

@RighteousnessWillPrevail

Ай бұрын

No you wouldn't. I don't know how to explain it but you wouldn't. You could make it steer even if the wheels were one solid piece of stone. I also think Stone is truly more durable than concrete. Concrete is n More susceptible to water damage.

@Rotorhead1651

Ай бұрын

​@@RighteousnessWillPrevail The ONLY way you MIGHT be able to steer such a vehicle (outside of a fantasy world), is by varying the distance between the 2 axles inversely. That is to say, by increasing the distance on one side, while simultaneously decreasing it on the opposite side. The problem is, rotating 2 such massive rollers, around twin, centralized, vertical axes equal amounts and simultaneously, would require vast amounts of torque. It's sort of like the difference between vehicles with and without power steering, but to the Nth degree. Fortunately, Fred and his fellow cavemen were Neanderthals, and would have been naturally far stronger than modern humans.

@bgood8299

Ай бұрын

I was thinking the same. They also didn't mention the fact that some episodes showed Fred getting gas for the car, implying there is an engine in there (somehow) somewhere. Still a fun build, though.

@turboflush

Ай бұрын

They did mention very quickly about steering. I think it was avoided on purpose.

The problem with the odometer is what was the build specs on the Ferrari of that year. So you would need a Italian odometer from the 1960’s

Barney's Logging Continental would've been much easyer. LOL!

I can remember $0.75/gal. Fuel used to be very cheap.

@Rotorhead1651

Ай бұрын

My father use to pay $0.25 HIS father paid $0.05.

@bheasy1

Ай бұрын

Thanks Joe burden

@ralanham76

Ай бұрын

I remember when my car got " 40 rods to the hogshead "

@UrbanPovertist

Ай бұрын

@@ralanham76 i used to ride with a bit older friend. The price was only at the pump. If the tenant was distracted, you pump a full tank, reset it and pump a buck and a full tank was a buck. I was always too honest. But it was surely a funny trick

@davebaker9128

Ай бұрын

I also remember low gas prices, 39.9 cents a gallon and my dad never drove to his carpool again, he rode a bicycle.

That's why Fred sprung for the solid stone wheel.

The best way of figuring out if your mileage is genuine is looking at the steering wheel. It is in your hands whenever the car is driven and there will be significant differences in the expected wear even between 50,000 to 100,000 miles.

You have to remember Fred Flintstone was an old man and obviously had been driving for a many years so has developed calluses on his feet but when he was a learner driver obviously it was harder for him to drive and stop because of his baby skin feet😊😂😂

@timacrow

18 күн бұрын

Not only was he middle-aged, but he was a smoker: kzread.info/dash/bejne/gHV52tGMn93JYsY.htmlsi=Dn65xYs3H6A12dVM

The wrong thing I see in their deliberation of the Flintstone mobile. 1 Fred Flintstone was not sitting when he was moving the car. He was standing while pushing the car. I think the MythBusters need to bring back this to rethink their thoughts about them standing and pushing instead of sitting and pushing.

@CrossRoadsOfTime

2 ай бұрын

Also wish that they would of gotten like a bodybuilder type that is more used to dragging heavy objects. I also think while her leather and lard option was rather clever. And did deserve to be used for the first test, i still would of liked to see if modern bearings would help as with all the other things they do in the show The show i don't think it's that big of a departure to think they had some better equivalent for the bearings than leather and lard.

Fun episode would love to see a revisit with different and lighter wheels see how fast they can go and stop with less weight.

It's not a Historic moment, it's a PreHistoric moment.

What an incredible prop to have as an attraction in a park.

Obviously they took odometer out of another car that had less miles no one trys to spin them backwards they just replace them with one with less miles

@whatta7793

2 ай бұрын

Yup, pretty common on older vehicles, have done the same to my 99 Tahoe

@michaelallen1432

Ай бұрын

You can actually take an old mechanical odometer apart and reset it to whatever you want.

@johnmcleodvii

Ай бұрын

There were cases that went to court of unscrupulous used car dealers that would use an electric drill to unwind miles off of odometers. This created laws that the auto manufacturers had to make it harder to modify mileage. The technique was to disconnect the cable from the transmission and chuck it into the drill. Run it in reverse for awhile and watch the miles come off.

@tommissouri4871

Ай бұрын

@@johnmcleodvii - Old tale. An electric drill runs the speedometer about 15 mph. To remove 1500 miles would take 100 hours. That is 4 days continuously running. To remove 15,000 would take 1000 hours. Do you have 40 days to wait?

@johnmcleodvii

Ай бұрын

@@tommissouri4871 A couple quick internet searches. Speedometers have 1000 or 1280 rotations per mile. Electric drills can run at up to 11000 RPM for some models. That's 11 miles a minute or 660 MPH for the 1000 turns per mile version. It will be something on the order of 500 MPH for the 1280 turns per mile version.

Modern odometers read the same speed sensor as the speedometer. It's measuring the frequency generated by gear teeth passing a hall effect sensor. That gear has a fixed gear ratio with the wheel speed. It's just calculation based on time.That frequency will look the same forward as it does backward. It's just a frequency and a clock and math.

As an injury epidemiologist, I was so pleased to see you had dummies when pulling it. Nice experiment. Looked fun. Thanks for sharing.

They referenced Ferris Bueller's day off. But this was actually done in Raymond Burr's Perry Mason. The killer had created an alibi using his old car [this was a 50's show]. He jacked up the car's back wheels and ran it backward. His car could not have driven to the scene of the crime according to the odometer.

The Flintstones takes place in the future because they celebrate Christmas making it AD not BC.There's an Internet theory that it's simultaneous with The Jetsons who live in the sky.

Excellent video :) I know person made Fred Flintstone car but did with rubber tires on 14 sizes 4 each on front wheels also back , put Snowmobile motor size 440 2 cylinders motor with 2 carb , belt drive be was gears on chain instead also Brakes also headlight and brake light! Was so cool design to and driveable and turn too by steering wheel!

I can't help but imagine the safety risk to do this. Like the old fashion cartoons of getting run over by a steamroller

I had a 2003 Mitsubishi Magna with a digital odometer that has 211 000ish km's on it. I had problems with the instrument panel/cluster and went to replace it to find the odometer reading was over 360 000 km's on the replacement one. Not sure with newer cars if they fixed that but the odometer reading was saved on a chip within the instrument cluster and not on the main computer which makes it very easy to forge your km's. In order to get my new display to read the correct km's, you would send it to a workshop that had the ability to access the onboard reading and then change the values.. So there is 2 ways of rewinding the clock on the early 2000's and older cars. Just replace the instrument cluster with one that has low km's or have a device to plug into the cluster to reprogram it.. It's very dodgy and I'm sure many people have done it sadly.. Makes me look at the engine, running gear and the joints a lot more now to tell if if the odo was forged when looking at a new car. Edit: There is a big difference and easy to see if they have shaved off a 100k looking at the components but very hard if they have only wound it back a little..

1:46 Settled. Even way back then, they knew what side the steering wheel should go on - Thank you bows and curtseys from, Australia, Japan, UK, Ireland, Singapore, India, Pakistan and the 69 other countries that drive on the correct side of the road.

the odometer drill thing was also done in a short scene in Matilda. her dad was a used car salesman who would scam all of his customers, and using a drill to roll back the odometer was one of his preparation tactics plus i also remember a scene from a Tiny Toon's special of Hampton's family trying to record their odometer, and they had to back up and do it again

The funny thing about the Flint Mobile is that Fred gets it going with his feet at the beginning and then it just keeps going forever on its own (unless he needs to do an emergency stop with his feet!). They never do explain how it turns and I don't think we ever saw that happen in any of the cartoons.

Fred flintstone will be physically stronger than the modern man.

Scammers just get the instrument panel out of a wrecked car with low mileage and swap it into the scam car.

Guys as a retired auto mechanic breaking into a odometer is only one of the ways on a digital one they reset the computer or cps system.

I am positive that the limbs would have been hogged out for lightness and the wheels would have been probably diorite or granite. Also, they probably hogged that out too in order to lighten the weight. If you had done it with a lighter inside but kept the wall thickness you probably would have had a greater deal of movement at that speed. The weight would also wear less on the wheels. Not only that but, Diorite or Granite is probably better at driving because of it's ingenious nature. Meaning that it's really, really tough. More than your concrete mix.

Odometer reversal is easy. They replace the instrument panel with a lower mileage one

20:20 An odometer is an estimate of miles. Your miles will increase as your tires wear. My wife recorded her miles to work and back daily which were the same everyday. Then we got new tires, and the miles reported by the odometer were suddenly less because the tires got wider and we went further with each tire revolution ... but the actual miles were the same. Maybe a GPS map is a more accurate way to measure miles.

Using pumice for the wheels would have made it slightly less ridiculous. It is lighter than water.

@friskydingo5370

2 ай бұрын

Read my mind 😊

@pennypizza3919

Ай бұрын

I read someones comments like yours i think using the pumice stone and the cedar wood wouldn't make it to heavy

The fact that the axles were spinning in the side logs indicate that the lard/leather "bearings" were not being tested. This fact should have been mentioned.

He only modified the in dash module odometer reading, a competent mechanic can find the actual mileage stored in the computer system and display it on his scan tool.

Bringing the vehicle up to 25 mph is improbable. The best a Flintstone vehicle would best actually do would be maybe 10 mph as the roads were more like gravel roads, not flat asphalt. Also, Tory was pushing BC on good surface to no more than 9mph, so normal speed would be 10, not 25mph.

Wow, Tory is almost unrecognizable these days.....He must have had some hornet cereal this morning........lol.

A while ago (I forget when) there was a scandal in Detroit that was discovered when a traffic cop pulled over a speeder. The speeder was an automotive exec and said he didn't realize that he was speeding because the speedometer/odometer was not connected yet. Turns out the executives were 'borrowing' new cars from the factory and driving them for hundreds if not thousands of miles without the odometer advancing, then they would return the car, hook up the odometer, the factory would sell them as new vehicles, and they would 'borrow' a new one again.

Ferris Bueller’s Day Off taught us about odometers. 🤣

Checking the tires of a used car is not that reliable. If the car is old enough that the mileage question arises, chances are the previous owner was simply sensible enough to replace the tires due to their age rather than their wear.

Faye made it on mythbusters?! Wow.

@CambiBambi3821

2 ай бұрын

AND Bisi?

Should have used a hmmwv 60mph speedo. That one goes in reverse when driving in reverse.

27:28 and 27:31 - Different dashes in the GTO. Oops on the editor. While the old mechanical odometers would usually rewind and lower the mileage, it is terribly inefficient. To reduce 60 miles, you'd have to drive in reverse for 60 miles. At 60 mph, that is an hour, plus the fuel used. But since most cars run less than 30 mph in reverse, it could take several hours. Also since the gearing for reverse is usually lower than first gear, fuel mileage will be very low. 60 miles could take 10 to 15 gallons of fuel easily.

They didn't overthink this at all...MUCH...!!! 😁😂🤣

Cant beleive mythbusters is back !! so stoked and the new format is awesome 👍

Now I'm interested in making one that *looks* similar, but with lighter material. "Wheels" that are not perfect cylinders and can steer when the frame is twisted slightly.

The tool to reset ODO readings can be downloaded for many cars. On mine the mileage is stored in the dash unit (speedo) AND in the computer. If your gauge goes bad, you need to buy one that has lower miles than the one you replace. You can set to a higher mileage but not a lower mileage, assuming you don't want to replace the expensive computer as well. To set mileage back on *some* 90's cars you couldn't pull it apart. You'd use a drill and roll the ODO spindle forward 1M miles or buy a speedo with lower mileage.

I never thought that Fred was as tall as six feet. His stocky build suggests a shorter person, not more than five, or maybe even less. Probably the whole stone age cast was short.

Would have used the lightest hard wood plausible, and old style wooden bearings inside the wheel well. That way you don't see the bearings from the outside. What if the Flintstone Mobile wheels were made from a wood that looked white? There were 2 support beams installed front and back in the show. I would have gotten rid of those, and just used the hard wooden seats and front dash as the supports to reduce weight. Then tested it on a hard compact dirt road.

Fred was on dirt roads so the "tires" wouldve lasted longer

It will be more fun while running the flintstone's car, theres a background theme song of it. Awesome made!

Correction at 3:09 you mention Fred uses his feet but I will bring up this this is a inconsistency as in one episode we do see there is a "breaking device" used in the car like a Emergency break type thing the joke/gag being the break obviously does not work. Also the Yabba dabba do thing was priceless.

They forgot the lubrication for the axles. Plus they could have nade smooth leather bearings for the axles and frame to run on with a film of grease between .

44:44 That was insanely dangerous, if the rollers came off and it got under the truck, it would flip the truck and the two of them in the back might die. You people need to be more cautious with such experiment.

At 15:17 One way to "set" an Odometer to the correct milage is to send high speed pulses to your Speedometer/Odometer and not spin the wheels at all. Because speed pulses have no directional info, you simply wind the milage up until it wraps around, past zero, and then stop on the final number. I have a video on a Fiero Speedometer tester using an Arduino UNO to generate the pulses. Theoretically, the Speedo will peg at max, but removing one lead can disable it... then send pulses as fast as the Odometer can take (say 1 mile per second 3600 MPH - That's an SR-71 aircraft). In just over a day you should be able to wrap the Odometer around past 99,999 miles back to all zeros and then beyound - 10 days on the bench if you have a 6 digit Odometer. This is not illegal as long as your Odometer matches the milage for the car. In my case, that Fiero is long gone so there is no problem. Actually, on a fiero, the Odometer easily comes out of the cluster and is very easy to remove and turn the wheels by hand... setting any desired milage in seconds.

The reason for the failure is because of axial shear where torque is moving in opposite directions. This is easily forseable however you are busting myths technically.

Although, the 1961 Ferrari in Ferris Bueller's Day Off did not roll miles off when put into reverse. Seems Ferrari was ahead of the curve on odometer tampering!

Another way yo find a tampered ofometer is to have the dealer check it. On many cars, the odometer displays the miles tgat it cobtains. But the mileage is stored in other kodules as well, such as rhe body control module, the transmission control module and the piwerteain control module. I dont know dotr a fact, but I bet they independently calcujate it. For example, the ABS control module monitors the sleed of each wheel and moduleds the brakes when it senses a wheel slip. It could easily calculate the mileage from the abs wheel sensors. The transmission control monitors input shaft speed, output agaft dpeed, what gear yotr in and probably is the source of the data that gets sent to the instrument cluster. It can also independabtly track and store the mileage. The body control module habdkes atability contril which means it needs to monitor wheel speed sensors and communicate with the abs, transmission and powertrain control modules. So it too has multiple ways to determine the vehicle mileage. Finally, the powertrain control module needs to communicate with the transmiasion and be aware if the gear and it knows the engine rom, so it too can independently calculate the mileage. But regardless of whether they independently calculate it, or just store a copy, if the cluster is changed, they rerain a copt of the original data and the dealer diagnostic system can detect the tampering. I bet this has nothing to do with sellers faking tgd odometer. Its probably more to do with preventing people from taking high mileage vehicles, like say, a car thats used to drive Uber or Lyft 400 miles a day, 5 days a week, and thus has driven 280,000 miles in the first three years, rolling the odometer back and then taking it in and getting a new engine and transmission and probably half of the car replaced ubtder warranty.

You can go to a junk yard and by a odometer that matches your vehicle and has few miles on it, that's one way they do the fraud. The other way is by disassembling the odometer and manually altering it's readout.

Dodgy car sellers don't actually turn the odometer back, they simply buy a far lower mileage speedometer, from a breaker's yard wreck and use it to replace the high mileage original. (I've done it with motorcycles in the past). The other method, that I used, was to reach in through the light bulb hole with a piece of stiff wire and click the far left reels all the way around back to zero.

As was mentioned, its reasobable to assume the wheel was hollow as there was an episode where stolen diamonds were hidden inside the wheels as was mentioned. If the wheel is about 2mx0.5m then if its solid its about 0.4m^3 which is about 600-800kg about each for the lighter rocks. (You want the softer lighter ones to cusion your ride, right 😂) If you work it out hollow wheels dont save you nearly as much weight as you might hope. Lets say the cylinder is thick and ignore the end caps. Lets assume the cylinder is 10cm thick. Then the hollow space is 20cm in diameter, when you work it out, you only save around 100kgs. But hollow wheels do solve one of the engineering challenges. The axkes cleareely are fixed to the chassis snd dont rotate. The wheel rotates on the axle. If the hole is smooth, at least ehere it rides on thecacle, and the axle is smooth, then it can be greased snd makes a decent plain bearing. There must be some kind of thrust bearing as well as it it stays centered and does not move side to side. So the axle then, is a nice, stout straight log. Its shaved down in the middle so that it clears the hole in the center. The ends are turned down to the sianeter we see connected to the frame, and there are flat surfaces that act as thrust bearings that ride against the end caps. The whole assembly is of course greased with animal fat because all the petrolium is still walking around.

Flintstones wasn't really pre-historic. Listen to the theme, and you would hear modern-day family. Flintstones dates to the future. Jetson with wealth moves out the earth while the Flintstones stay on a falling earth.

But Fred was standing up. Wouldn't they run the car and then sit for a bit?

Fred Flintstone had a lot of leg strength to move that car, but Wilma Flintstone also moved that car, so my theory doesn't work. However, there is a way it works and that is for the city to have pure downhill streets like San Francisco, that way it works and pretty well. Greetings to all.

Making the huge Fred Flintstone feet was rather pointless as Wilma had very tiny feet, and she drove the car as well. Love the video, though

When I was a teenager in the 1970's, a neighbor asked me to hook up an odometer cheat device for him, because he wanted to be able to say, without lying, that he didn't run back his odometer. It was a small metal box with a 110v motor inside, and a threaded connection on each end just like the one on the side of a transmission of a car. The speedometer/odometer cable was unscrewed from the transmission, and the cable was then attached to whichever end of the box you wanted... one side to go forward, the other, reverse. Many, if not most cars back then only went to 99,999 and then rolled over. So if you were near that, or maybe showed a too low of a mileage (implying you were over 100,000), you could go forward to like 35,000 or something reasonable looking. Anyway, it worked backwards. I don't know all the cars that allowed this to happen, but this was a common thing to do back then. I guess at some point they did away with that ability, but going forward would work on most cars with mechanical odometers.

OK, so replace the pedal pads when backing the odometer, got it!

The Flintstones had strange continuity. Sometimes the cars worked by foot power and sometimes they seemed to have some sort of engine. We just remember the foot powered moments and forget the rest. I think this car was the world's first hybrid technology.

Best way to "cheat" an odometer is to run the odometer system forward until it "flips".

Fred's car had a steering wheel, but there was no sign of any kind of mechanism to do the steering.

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I wonder why they didnt add a stering wheel

One aspect of this "myth" that wasn't considered is how was the vehicle supposed to turn corners? The wheels were in fixed position.

Who wooda thunk cars had flat tires 30,000 years ago??🦧

back in the day in the 70s-80s i would be paid $100 a car to turn back the clocks on car- yard cars, only took 40-60 minutes a car🤣 i was a second-year apprentice at the time and it is easy doing the analog speedos and reversing a car was stupid you removed the dial and turned the first or second number back easy

Insanely dangerous vehicle to destroy their feet and legs if that back wheel catches them.

the easiest way to "wind back" an ODO is to buy one for the same car with low miles on the ODO and install it

No you can replace tires and just about everything else! People who are not automotive savvy would not know that most of those items are cheap & easy to replace! A good shop can make their own parts if they have to cheaply!

OK, now let's see if it cam be steered and make turns ;-) Seriously, a great effort as I grew up on the Flintstones as a child in the 60's 😀

20:05 for decades, the gears driving distributors have been made of plastic.

Wow, this was very cool! So awesome to see that car actually built (even with the practical adjustments)!