Fred Flinstone car
n.— «Then there was what Woolley often euphemistically calls the “Fred Flinstone cars,” vehicles in such a bad state, you can literally see the ground through the floorboards.» —“Holiday Safety Blitz Ends With The Usual Bad Drivers Hitting The Highways” CityNews (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) Oct. 9, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
After our conversation about how to communicate an apology to another driver while on the road, Vasiliy in Waltham, Massachusetts, composed a poem about it. This is part of a complete episode.
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