Wacky Races

Wacky Races was an animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions. The series featured 11 different cars racing against each other in various road rallies, with each driver hoping to win the title of the "World's Wackiest Racer." Wacky Races ran on CBS from September 14, 1968 to January 4, 1969. Seventeen episodes were produced, with each episode featuring two different races, for a total of 34 races in all.

Now I don't mean to imply that all our readers are the same age as Sebastian, and can remember these things when they first ran ( he can note seeing Halleys comet on at least 3 separate occasions, and the last time he was stopped by a traffic cop and asked for ID, he pulled out a rock )... but surely you've caught it in re-run, or on Cartoon Network. Certainly it has always been a favourite here at DVD Purgatory.

The love of motorsports can start at a young age for many racing fans, and countless enthusiasts owe their obsession to this wondeful cartoon. The 60's-era animated series featured all manner of characters competing wheel to cartoon wheel in the most hilarious automotive concoctions ever rendered on celluloid. But what has remained for decades as the objects of childhood fantasy, now actually exist in real life, and have taken to the streets of Chichester in West Sussex, England, ahead of their annual, real-life racing at the upcoming Goodwood Festival of Speed. All I can say, is "amazing".

Why it's almost enough to make me go all Corey Haim and get my own license to drive... almost.