>From the Grapevine at AtlasF1.com:
The New "Mr Burns"
Formula One boss Bernie 'Mr Burns' Ecclestone is reportedly set to
become the star of a
new Simpsons-style cartoon series based around Formula One. The
cartoon, which will be
set 300 years in the future and feature Grand Prix races between
different universes, has been set
up by Ecclestone himself after he contacted Chrysalis Television
about the idea. It has an F1
license to help worldwide sales, and around #8 million (pounds) will
be invested in the project.
Cosgrove Hall, the animation company which produced Dangermouse and
Bill and Ben will begin
production of the new cartoon in the summer and although the
scriptwriters have already started,
the series will not debut until 2003. Ecclestone was sceptical over
his appearance in the programme,
but was convinced and will make it into the character line-up having
been cryogenically preserved!
That it's being put together by the megalomaniac himself isn't a promising
start, but perhaps it will drift over to Speedvision some time in the next
300 years.
Peter
-----Original Message-----
From: craig boyle [mailto:craig_autox@yahoo.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2001 2:21 PM
To: Alan Gruner; Kelly, Katie; 'Dennis & Sherry Armstrong';
Weraj@aol.com
Cc: ba-autox@autox.team.net
Subject: RE: Speed Racer Trivia
.. ha, you want us to feel sorry for you :) :) They
didn't even have SpeedRacer televised anywhere in the
UK when I was a kid. That's deprivation.
Craig
--- Alan Gruner <algruner@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I do know the mammoth car was the train looking
> thing,
> even though I never watched speed racer.
>
> We only had two stations in the little town we lived
> in and neither one showed it. I saw one episode at a
> family friend's place in Detroit when I was 6. It
> was
> "Race with the Mammoth Car". I think it would have
> completely faded from memory except that at the end
> the story it said, "To Be Continued." I was annoyed
> at
> the time because I knew I would never get to see
> part
> two. Fast forward 18 years later and I was lying
> around flipping through channels about midnight one
> night when I happened upon "Speed Racer". They were
> showing "Race with the Mammoth Car Part II" So of
> course I had to watch it to find out how it ended.
> To
> date, these are the only two episodes of Speed Racer
> I
> have ever watched all the way through.
>
> The ironic thing is I can't remember the story now.
>
>
> Alan Gruner
>
> --- "Kelly, Katie" <kkelly@spss.com> wrote:
> > It's okay if they couldn't figure it out. I'd be
> > more concerned if they
> > simply did not want to know. Personally, I
> couldn't
> > remember, but I've been
> > curious all this time. You've solved this mystery
> > for me, AJ, and I thank
> > you.
> >
> > My favorite episode is the one when they drive
> this
> > super-duper yellow car.
> > Is THAT one the Mammoth Car? I thought the Mammoth
> > Car was the one that was
> > like a big train. This other car was the one that
> NO
> > ONE could drive. You
> > just try to drive it, and suddenly... suddenly,
> you
> > need water! Oh!
> > Must-have-water-now! Ohhh! And then they lose
> > control of the car complely.
> > That one spooked me out, and still does when I
> just
> > think about it.
> >
> > Katie
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Dennis & Sherry Armstrong
> > [mailto:miata@pacbell.net]
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2001 11:12 AM
> > To: Weraj@aol.com
> > Cc: ba-autox@autox.team.net
> > Subject: Re: Speed Racer Trivia
> >
> >
> > Very good!! And to think the family could not
> figure
> > out that Racer X, was
> > Rex Racer!!
> >
> > O.K. I am sorry
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <Weraj@aol.com>
> > To: <miata@pacbell.net>
> > Cc: <ba-autox@autox.team.net>
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2001 11:06 AM
> > Subject: Re: Speed Racer Trivia
> >
> >
> > > Rex Racer!
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > >
> > > AJ Archambault
> > > #61 BS Miata BMR SCCA
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