I bet you didn’t have any stone wheels on your bingo board while surfing the internet on Wednesday! We certainly didn’t, but that’s the magic of the internet. For more than 100 years, the cars we love have rolled (mostly) on some sort of inflated rubber tire carefully wrapped around a wooden or metal wheel. The phrase “where rubber meets road” has crept into vocabulary around the world because, well, that’s almost always the case with cars.

Of course, that hasn’t stopped some people from experimenting with different materials they could use as wheels or as a gripping surface around the wheel of a car. Recently, the Waterjet Channel, a YouTube channel that became famous for cutting various objects with a high-pressure waterjet cutter, set out to test out a few different shapes of wheels inspired by Fred Flintstone.

Yes, it’s as crazy as it sounds. The host of the video, known only as “Daniel,” takes us through three versions of experimenting with stone wheels: asphalt, concrete, and finally real stone.

To be clear, the video’s main test subject – a surprisingly good-looking Ford Pinto – is treated with a certain indifference. We’re not huge fans of that, nor are we of the obvious lack of safety measures for this truly ridiculously dangerous experiment. The results here, however, made us smile; we hope you do too.

It all starts with an asphalt wheel – or rather, an asphalt tire molded around a steel wheel. Since asphalt is just a collection of small stones held together with tar, the outer casing of an existing tire is needed to form the pliable material. Daniel then adds epoxy resin to the mix to create a better bond.

Of course, the asphalt tire turns out to be a nightmare and crumbles as soon as they take it out of the rubber mold. Although it crumbles easily, he manages to mount the wheel on the back of the Pinto… And that’s it. The tire immediately falls apart when Daniel tries to back out of the parking space, ending that part of the experiment.

Next comes the concrete. First, the team added some metal flaps to the tread of the wheel, which they hoped would give the concrete better grip. They also added some wire mesh to the concrete itself, which acts as a sort of flexible reinforcement.

Surprisingly, it holds up, and not only the (light) weight of the Pinto when stationary – it even manages to roll a little. Of course, the channel’s host exaggerates a few times, but that’s how YouTube works these days. Check out the madness in the system.

Finally, it’s time to get real and Fred Flintstone. Four stone wheels are cut from landscape pavers and mounted on the car. It goes without saying that the material used for landscape pavers was probably not the most durable type of stone, but it was probably available on short notice.

We won’t give away how the Pinto performs with the stone wheels. Watch the full film below – and then please don’t try it at home.