{"id":35,"date":"2008-01-13T22:27:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-13T22:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skooldays.com\/blog\/00-the-mean-machine-dick-dastardly-and-muttley\/"},"modified":"2011-08-23T18:20:21","modified_gmt":"2011-08-23T17:20:21","slug":"00-the-mean-machine-dick-dastardly-and-muttley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/00-the-mean-machine-dick-dastardly-and-muttley\/","title":{"rendered":"00 &#8211; The Mean Machine &#8211; Dick Dastardly and Muttley"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"e526d1e761560160a119e3b74cb2a974\" data-index=\"4\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0;\">\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- skool-response -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1609637348681190\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3558122710\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"autorelaxed\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>Dastardly driving\u00a0 Mean Machine Zero-Zero with his side-kick Muttley the Dog. Dick Dastardly and his Mean Machine 00 in a mock-up race on the race track at the 2006 Goodwood Festival of Speed. Notably, in the Cartoon film &#8220;Wacky Races,&#8221; Dastardly is the baddie.<\/p><div class=\"e526d1e761560160a119e3b74cb2a974\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:5px 0 5px 0; text-align:center;\">\nskool\r\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"autorelaxed\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1609637348681190\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3558122710\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<div id=\"attachment_1921\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/00-wacky-races.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1921\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1921\" title=\"00-wacky-races\" src=\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/00-wacky-races.jpg\" alt=\"Dick Dastardly and Muttley\" width=\"500\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/00-wacky-races.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/00-wacky-races-160x127.jpg 160w, http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/00-wacky-races-300x238.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/00-wacky-races-377x300.jpg 377w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1921\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">00 - The Mean Machine - Dick Dastardly and Muttley<\/p><\/div>\n<p>All the way from Goodwood, The Mean Machine appears to have been by far the fastest vehicle, providing Dastardly with a theoretically unbeatable advantage. But in every episode, after blazing far ahead of the others, Dastardly would stop to set up various booby traps for the other racers and this would eventually cost him the race. It never seems to occur to him to race fairly even though he would presumably triumph every time.<\/p>\n<p>Can you believe &#8211; the real Wacky Races!<\/p>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/00-the-mean-machine-dick-dastardly-and-muttley\/\"><img width=\"125\" height=\"99\" src=\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/00-wacky-races-160x127.jpg\" class=\"alignright tfe wp-post-image\" alt=\"Dick Dastardly and Muttley\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/00-wacky-races-160x127.jpg 160w, http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/00-wacky-races-300x238.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/00-wacky-races-377x300.jpg 377w, http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/00-wacky-races.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 125px) 100vw, 125px\" \/><\/a><p>Dastardly driving\u00a0 Mean Machine Zero-Zero with his side-kick Muttley the Dog. 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