# Need help to ID a car-themed cartoon

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-to-id-a-car-themed-cartoon/546653>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [July 14, 2010, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-to-id-a-car-themed-cartoon/546653 "2010-07-14T14:09:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2010, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-to-id-a-car-themed-cartoon/546653/1 "2010-07-14T14:09:22Z")

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It starts off with the “birth” of a young car. In his teenage years or so, Junior gets into the fancy gas. Mom exclaims something like “George! He’s filling up with ethyl!”

The now excessively peppy Junior zooms off and eventually gets in a wreck with a train. The “surgery” to repair him has dialog like “Spark plug… Fan belt”

Everyone I’ve described this to either has no idea that “Ethyl” used to refer to premium gas with lead, or they remember the cartoon but can’t identify it. Because of the leaded gas reference, it’s got to be from the early 1970s or before.

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**Author:** ![3waygeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/e95f7d/32.png) [@3waygeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3waygeek)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2010, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-to-id-a-car-themed-cartoon/546653/2 "2010-07-14T15:46:20Z")

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_One Cab’s Family_, by [Tex Avery](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tex_Avery).

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**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2010, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-to-id-a-car-themed-cartoon/546653/3 "2010-07-14T17:21:07Z")

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They also did that same basic cartoon with planes, IIRC.

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**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2010, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-to-id-a-car-themed-cartoon/546653/4 "2010-07-14T17:23:06Z")

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Here is One Cab’s Family: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rnjXdj9-LI](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rnjXdj9-LI)

And Little Johnny Jet: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqOT-wEUDL8](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqOT-wEUDL8)

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**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2010, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-to-id-a-car-themed-cartoon/546653/5 "2010-07-14T18:16:46Z")

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That’s the one. Thanks!