Ancient Wheels Spin? - Motor MythBusters - S01 EP104 - Car Show 

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

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. 😊

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

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

"Flintstones meet the Flintstones!" WILLLLLLLMMMMMMMMMMMMMMA!

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.

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

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

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 🤘👽👽👽

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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...

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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😊😂😂

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

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.

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

Fred flintstone will be physically stronger than the modern man.

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

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!

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!

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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..

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Faye made it on mythbusters?! Wow.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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 .

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!

Great fun . Thank you guys ❤ I enjoyed it

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

This is so silly but awesome

Actually, The Flintstones wasn't set in the past, but actually in the future. It takes place at the same time as The Jetsons, but while people like the Jetsons managed to escape earth before the cataclysmic event and lived in a futuristic world, those who were not so well off were basically set back into the stoneage in terms of technology, but still had the knowledge of at that time modern day. Hence things like garbage dispolsal, plumbing, bowling and cars existed.

Volcanic rock is easy to shape light and durable super grip and still a true stone wheel and self lubercating and porse then use the limestone ground up to make cement liner for the stone😊

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

Hearing Tory does bring back some good memories

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.

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.

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.

did anyone see what state the front wheel was? there was nothing wrong with it after the 18mph, the back wheel got damaged when that buster fell and caused imbalance/uneveness

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.

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 😀

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Bisi is my favorite! This is awesome, I remember his really fast honda insight drag car. And the van and a 1000 whp car

Isn't Tory the OG Mythbuster? Glad to see Faye on the team :)

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

To test it properly,look @ the details. (#1) fred reved his feet up and then got moving, like a old train doe and, (#2) the road was impacted dirt [ NOT ASHALT].please try again. LIKE a locomotive [[ INSTANTLY REVING UP THE IRON WHEELS ]] to get momentum then regular speed.

I am certainly not changing that flat🤣

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.

Flintstones the movie built a bunch of cars they should have tried to find one of them

i love the Fred feet! I wish I would of seen this about 2 years ago. I dressed as Frodo Baggins for Halloween.

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

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

Full marks for creating the memories of flinstone

You would think one of the first things on the odometer test would be the thought that scammers just grab a dash from a lesser mile wrecked car and put it in the ride... Might be harder with a digital dash since the ECU probably has mile memory but on an old car might work ok