Fred The jeep YJ

With a paint job resembling Fred Flintstone’s outfit, this 1987 YJ screams yabba-dabba-can-doo!

- Stuart Bourdon

Just when you think you’ve seen it all, along comes a Jeep that brings back childhood memories. For a certain category of the Jeeping community, the Flintstones cartoon television show is as much a part of our cultural heritage as Hostess HoHos and riding Schwinn Stingrays with banana seats. That’s why when we bumped into the VanHoosens from Westminster, Colorado, and their  ’87 Jeep YJ Wrangler with its distinctive orange-over-brown paint scheme during the inaugural 2016 Jp Dirt ’N Drive presented by Jeep, we understood right away why the rig’s nickname was “Fred.”