Marx #4672 'The Flintstones' Playset (1961) - Odds n' Ends - Extra Barney's Car - Topless

Wellll, I do believe that this is the very last post about anything related to the Marx #4672 'The Flintstones' playset - until I find something else. Basically though, this marks the end of one our series that started back on 30 May. As always, if I get anything else in that relates to the set, I'll post it. 

Barney's car as provided in the Marx playset includes a roof, however, most cars offered by toy companies are sans roof - a lot easier to manufacture! I'll post some of them here.

Ed

S1 E5 The Split Personality

Various Barney's Cars

Marx's Barney's Car Sans Roof

Marx #4672 'The Flintstones' Playset (1961) - Odds n' Ends - Extra Barney's Car - Red-Yellow

This red-&-yellow version of Barney's car was supposedly the rare offering included in Montgomery Wards half-sets. Mine is missing two of the roof supports and a previous owner added a flame decal to the top of the roof (which BTW I like and have no plans of removing).

Ed

Marx #4672 'The Flintstones' Playset (1961) - Odds n' Ends - Extra Barney's Car - Red-Blue

Barney's car is the toughest to find complete. Marx decided to include four small, spindly, easily breakable, and easily lost roof supports for the roof. As they are a bear to find, most of the time I just leave two of them off.

A few cars I cobbled together over the years. 

This all-red version was included in the '90s era Ruby Edition Flintstones playset.

Here's a couple of screen grabs showing two different cars in Season 1. I haven't bothered to look at the entire series and record variations but I'm betting there's a bunch.

Screen Grabs

S1 E1 The Flintstone Flyer

This has all four roof supports and was probably the inspiration for the Marx version.

S1 E5 The Split Personality

The sporty version - no roof at all

Red-Blue v1

I had to use an extra yellow roof support to be able to assemble this.

v2

This one has three of the four blue uprights.

I could always use the blue upright from the car above to make this an accurate complete version if I want to.