Penelope Pitstop Penelope Pitstop Penelope Pitstop is a fictional character who appeared in the Hanna-Barbera animated series "Wacky Races", and starred in the spin-off "The Perils of Penelope Pitstop", voiced by Janet Waldo. In "Wacky Races", Penelope Pitstop drives the Compact Pussycat, a pink, stereotypically feminine car. Consistent with this theme, she has blonde hair tied into a ponytail and wears a bright pink racing uniform with white gloves, maroon tights, and white go-go boots. She is described by the race announcer as the "Glamour Gal of the Gas Pedal". As "Wacky Races" is inspired by "The Great Race", Penelope is inspired
Wacky Races (1968 TV series) was made available in 1996. All 34 episodes can be purchased on the iTunes Store. On February 14, 2017, Warner Archive re-released "Wacky Races: The Complete Series" on DVD in region 1 as part of their Hanna-Barbera Classics Collection as a Manufacture-on-Demand (MOD) release. Life-size working replicas of the vehicles have been built in the UK (where the show was very popular) and appear annually at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, with new additions each year. 2008 saw the last of the cars (the Ant Hill Mob in the Bulletproof Bomb 07) added to the collection, making a complete set.