Penelope Pitstop Also in the background helping her out of her perils are the minuscule Ant Hill Mob and trusty old classic car Chuggaboom (which is actually based on another team from "Wacky Races"). In the series, Penelope's car is called the "Compact Pussycat". Bearing the numeral 5 on the sides, it is a pink racecar, with front bumpers that look like a pair of red lips with lipstick on them. It has an umbrella on the top and is equipped with an assortment of beauty supplies, making it essentially a beauty parlor on wheels. Penelope Pitstop Penelope Pitstop is a fictional
Wacky Races (1968 TV series) the races would be part of a live-action quiz show made by Merrill Heatter and Bob Quigley Productions in which contestants would bet on which Wacky Racer would cross the finish line first. Although the game show concept was eventually scrapped, the series still retained a Hanna-Barbera/Heatter-Quigley dual production credit. In 1988, a made-for-TV movie, "Around the World with the Wacky Racers", was planned as part of Hanna-Barbera's "Superstars 10" series of TV movies, but it never got past the concept stage. The show gave the results of each race at the end of each episode, (the first, second, and