i need name of cartoon and car from 70's?

Question

all i remember is it had a talking dune buggy, and if i remember right there was a boy and a girl that were always with the car. but that may or may not be right. its from same time frame as josie and the pussycats and scooby doo. i would like name of cartoon, name of car and the main charactors, run date if known would also be good.

Answer 1

Speed Buggy was a Saturday morning cartoon produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions, originally airing for 16 30-minute installments on CBS between September 8, 1973 and August 31, 1974; repeats have surfaced on all 3 networks for 9 years. A direct clone of Hanna-Barbera's successful Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, Speed Buggy followed the adventures of an anthropomorphic dune buggy, Speed Buggy (voiced by Mel Blanc), his driver Tinker (voiced by Phil Luther, Jr.), and Tinker's friends Mark and Debbie (voiced by Michael Bell and Arlene Golonka, respectively). The three young adults and their car traveled from race to race, often encountering spy capers and mysteries along the way. Speed Buggy's trademark quotes were always "Roger-Dodger!" and "Vroom-a-zoom-zoom!"

Though "Speed" had a mind of his own and could act on free will, he was vulnerable to commands given through a communicator/remote control device made by Tinker when he first built Speed Buggy. Speed's friends rarely used the device to control his actions, using it mainly for its communication function, but criminals and other ne'er-do-wells would sometimes steal or duplicate the device and manipulate Speed for their own purposes.

Speed Buggy and the gang guest starred in a September 29, 1973 episode of The New Scooby Doo Movies, "The Weird Winds Of Winona". Speed Buggy and Tinker also competed in the Laff-a-Lympics (where Tinker was voiced by Frank Welker).

Speed Buggy appeared on Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law where he was arrested for being involved in a high speed chase; upon further investigation, it was revealed that the true fault lay with Mark and Debbie, who were making out while Speed's remote was in Debbie's pants pocket. When the activating button was accidentally pressed in the course of the pair's intimate encounters, Speed misunderstood Debbie's sexual innuendo-laden comments to Mark as commands to act, resulting in Speed's chaotic behavior and subsequent arrest.

On cable, repeats of this show aired on The USA Network (on their Cartoon Express) in the 1980s and, from 1992 to the present day, Cartoon Network and its sister channel Boomerang.

Answer 2

Cartoon Dune Buggy

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i need name of cartoon and car from 70's?
all i remember is it had a talking dune buggy, and if i remember right there was a boy and a girl that were always with the car. but that may or may not be right. its from same time frame as josie and the pussycats and scooby doo. i would like name of cartoon, name of car and the main...

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Speed Buggy

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Speed Buggy

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Speed Buggy
… milk them dry, flooding the market with knock-offs until it was no longer possible to squeeze an audience out of them. Thus, when Scooby Doo proved such a huge success with its four teenagers and a dog tooling around in a van and solving mysteries, the company followed it up with The Funky Phantom (three teens, a dog and two ghosts in a flivver), Josie & the Pussycats (teenage music group with a cat and on-board bad guys in a tour bus), and even a retooled version of The Addams Family (kids plus goofy, kid-like grownups, octopus and large carnivore in a creepy old house on wheels).
Speed Buggy (three teens, no dog, but the car, which was the title character, could talk) debuted as a half-hour animated show on September 8, 1973, on CBS. In anthropomorphizing the car, the studio was following another of its common practices, "borrowing" concepts from others — in this case, Disney's The Love Bug (1968), about a living Volkswagen.

The inevitable cleancut, handsome, leader-type kid was Mark, whose voice was done by Mike Bell (Plastic Man in his 1979 Ruby-Spears show, Luthor in the same company's 1988 version of Superman). The inevitable token female was Debbie, voiced by Arlene Golonka (mostly a face actress). The inevitable beatnik/hippie/slacker type, the one that reminded viewers of Scooby Doo's Shaggy, was their mechanic, Tinker, voiced by Phil Luther Jr. (who has no other voice credits). Speed Buggy himself was played by the incomparable Mel Blanc, who did characters as obscure as Sneezly Seal and as prominent as Bugs Bunny. Incidental voices were by Alan Oppenheimer (Mighty Mouse) and John Stephenson (narrator for Ruff & Reddy).

The crew traveled the countryside having adventures and (of course) solving mysteries, for only one season, but the 16 episodes were rerun over and over, most recently on Cartoon Network in 1996. In addition, Speed was part of the ensemble cast of Scooby's All Star Laff-a-Lympics (1977) alongside Dynomutt, Captain Caveman and other stars of defunct Hanna-Barbera shows.

The show was reasonably but not overwhelmingly successful in merchandising. There was a comic bok adaptation from Gold Key, but it didn't have its own title — it appeared in a couple of issues of Fun-in, an anthology that also included Motormouse & Autocat; Inch High, Private Eye; The Cattanooga Cats; and other Hanna-Barbera properties. In 1975, Charlton Comics took over the license, and put Speed in his own book. It lasted nine issues, July 1975 to November 1976.

Speed Buggy isn't one of Hanna-Barbera's super-stars, but the repeated re-runs seem to indicate he has staying power.

Answer 7

I'm not really sure of the entire run date, but here's a website that has the character names and some clips from episodes:

http://www.wingnuttoons.com/SpeedBug.html

Answer 8

Speedbuggy Vroom azoom zoom

Answer 9

I loved Speed Buggy!!!!

Answer 10

You might be talkin about Speed Buggy,....I know little else about it. Uh,...google it?