Wacky Races - Cultural References

Cultural References

  • Life-size working replicas of the vehicles have been built in the UK and appear annually at the Goodwood Festival Of Speed, with new additions each year. 2008 sees the last of the cars (the Ant Hill Mob in the Bulletproof Bomb 07) added to the collection thereby becoming the complete set.
  • Goodwood Festival of Speed Wacky Races Replicas

  • Mean Machine #00

  • Boulder Mobile #1

  • Creepy Coupe #2

  • Convert-a-Car #3

  • Crimson Haybailer #4

  • Compact Pussycat #5

  • Army Surplus Special #6

  • Turbo Terrific #9

  • The English adult comic Viz had a one-off parody strip called "Wacky Racists" with David Irving as Dick Dastardly, Unity Mitford as Penelope Pitstop and comedian Bernard Manning as Muttley.
  • A story arc in the online game City of Heroes has villains named after Wacky Races characters (Rufus of Perez, Slag of Skywyay, etc.).
  • In the PlayStation 2 game The Getaway (video game) Mark Hammond makes reference in the "Filthy Business" level. When He drives the van to fix the phone at Snow Hill police statio and is then told he has to take out the "real" van he says "This is Wacky Fucking Races!"

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