Wacky Racers

"Wacky Races" was a cartoon series about 11 crazy racers who compete against each other for title of "World's Wackiest Racer" which ran from 1 season for 14 epsiodes from September 14, 1968 to September 5,1970.

Contestants and their cars

 * 00 "The Mean Machine" driver Dick Milhous Dasterly and sidekick the snickering Muttley. Dasterly-like Professor Fate in the movie ""The_Great_Race""- aims to win the race by trickery and cheating; a running gag is that he never wins-although every other contestant does win at least once. In one typical Dasterly plot he tried to trick the other cars into driving into a fake bakery and actually succeded in "changing" Peter Perfect and Penelope Pitstop from racing drivers into figures on a wedding cake! {Of course due to Dasterly and Muttley incompentence Perfect and Pitstop are soon back in the race!}. He does come close to winning several times; once he almost won until Muttley stopped his car just short of the finnish line; another time he stopped the car himself to have his picture taken; another time he crossed first but was disqualified after it was found he had extended his car nose to cross the line first; another time he actually crossed the line without cheating-but was again disqualifed because-due to an accident-he and Mutley were in another car! The nearest Dasterly ever comes to "winning" at anything is in a cartoon network short when he is allowed to enter the cartoon Netwoek HQ with a cartoon bomb-simply because he has his ID with him-and beating Yogi Bear who has misplaced his!


 * Bouldermobile 1 -the Slag Brothers


 * Creepy Coupe 2 -the Gruesome Twosome


 * Concert-a Car 3-Professor Pat Pending


 * Crimosn haybailer 4-the Red Max


 * Compact Pussycat 5-Penelope Pitstop


 * Army Surplus Special 6-Sgt Blast and Private Meekly


 * Bulletproof Bomb 7-the Anthill Mob


 * Arkansas Chuggabugg 8-Luke and Blubber Bear


 * Turbo Terrific 9-Peter Perfect


 * Buzzwagon 10-Rufus Ruffcut and Sawtooth

Triva
Three of the contestants had their own spin off series:


 * Penelope Pitstop is an heiress who must be protected by her bodyguards "The Ant hill Mob" from the "Hooded Claw" at The_Perils_of_Penelope_Pitstop which ran for 1 season for 17 epsiodes from September 13, 1969 to September 4, 1971


 * Dick Dasterly and Muttley head up a enemy World War I Squadron to stop "Yankee Doodle Pigeon" and failing as usual at Dastardly_and_Muttley_in_Their_Flying_Machines which ran for 1 season for 17 epsiodes from September 13, 1969 to January 3, 1970; they also appeared as villians at Yogi%27s_Treasure_Hunt which ran for 3 seasons for 27 epsiodes from September 6, 1985 to March 25, 1988
 * The Slag brothers were the basis for one characther "Captain Caveman in Captain_Caveman and the Teen Angelswhich ran for 3 seasons for 40 epsiodes from September 10, 1977 to June 21, 1980