Wacky Races

Ah, childhood memories!

caradvice.co.au have this story today about a new Peugeot 208 commercial being shown in Brazil.

Here's the ad to enjoy...

It is enjoyable apart from the fiery deaths of The Anthill Mob and the Red Max.  Interesting to see the Anthill Mob had an Hispano Suiza as well - and Muttley actually looked quite cute at the end.

For those of you who were not car-mad children of the '70s, you may need to check out this Wiki Wacky page to learn about my favouritest ever Hanna-Barbera cartoon.





 There were only 17 episodes made, each covering two races.  My favourite car was always number 2, the Creepy Coupe driven by The Gruesome Twosome - I haven't got a clue why.

I always felt that car number 2 didn't win very often but, thanks to some sad person on the Wiki page, I now know that they won 3 races and would have come 4th overall if championship points were awarded according to 1968 F1 rules.

 The voices were mostly performed by four actors:

Paul Winchell – Dick Dastardly, Private Meekly, Clyde

Don Messick – Muttley, Gravel Slag, Little Gruesome, Prof Pat Pending

Daws Butler – Big Gruesome, Red Max, Sergeant Blast, Peter Perfect

Janet Waldo – Penelope Pitstop

and this is what they looked like:

Interesting eh?

Well I thought so.