Two taxicabs having a baby Hot Rod??

While being drunk and and disorderly last night a friend told me about this cartoon he saw many years ago, The story as he, and now me, remembers it was;

Two taxicabs fell in love, got married and had a child. This juvenile delinquint turned out to be a Hot Rod. Laid in bed at nights reading Hor Rod Magazine and stayed out late racing the streets and so on.

One night his dad where out to find him and got stuck on a railroad crossing.
Baby Hot Rod pushes dad off the tracks but manages to get run over by the train. In the hospital he is treated as a hero and gets to chose his new bodywork. He comes back as a taxi like his mom and dad.
In the last seen you see him lift the hood and reveals he still has the hopped up flatty.

Anyone knows about this?
What's it called?
What company?
Does anyone have it?

/Mikael

 

Yep, I remember that toon, maybe a looney toon, one of my favorites. The kid had a coon tail on an antenna, loud pipes and whitewalls.

 

yup i seen that to but no help finding it , sorry

 

Heheheh...even remember it way up here!
There was another one something like it where the parents were prop planes and the kid was a Jet.

 

Disney did it i got it on a cd .

 

Sombody on here has a clip of it as his avatar I cant remeber who though.

 

i love that cartoon. I forget what it was called. I havent seen it on tv in about 10 years but i remember it fondly.

 

I couldn't stand not know what it was called so i did about 2 minutes of research and found it.

http://www.bcdb.com/bcdb/cartoon.cgi?film=3056

Its called "one cab's family".

It was made in 1952.

They also had one called "little johnny jet" and disney had one called "Suzy the little blue coupe"

 

I think it's a Tex avery cartoon. It's VERY COOL!

 

I remember "Suzy the little blue coupe"....I think. Is that the one where we get to see the car go through its life from showroom new to the junkyard? The junkyard of course made the car very sad....but a hot rodder comes along and saves it, which makes the car very very happy!

Is that how that one goes?


I do not remember ever seeing the cab cartoon, but I would love to. I do remember the jet one though. Those old cartoons are so cool. I can't wait to share them with my kids!

 

I remember that one well. It's a Hanna-Barberra (or however you spell their names) and was run with the Tom & Jerry original cartoons. If you have digital cable or satellite and get the Boomerang channel (part of Cartoon Network) you may be able to catch it when they run Tom & Jerry. (Which incedentally they did butcher Tom & Jerry to make the black woman in some of the toons sound more modern than the Butterfly McQueen-ish voice she used to have, so don't be too shocked if you sit through with the kids). Given those and the older Warner Brothers are about the best cartoons ever made and run circles around most of today's crap, if you're going to sit with your kids and watch something they'd be a good choice anyhow.

Your kids will laugh at this one when the dad taxi spanks the kid for putting the hot rod body on - by lifting the trunk like the trapdoor on a pair of old-fashioned long johns, where a very human looking rearend is found to paddle.



Little Johnny Jet... I still laugh at that one when I happen to see it. When he pushes his dad through the blimp and it's like a watermelon inside... lol.. If people reading this have never seen it I won't spoil it, but it's one of the funniest ones they ever did IMHO...

 

I LOVE THAT CARTOON!! i remember it too. it was a favorite for sure. have'nt seen it in YEARS

 

Took me a few minute's thinking about this..then i started remembering the 'baby' car ripping around and lifting his hood showing off his mill....

Yup, a little foggy, but still stored in the memory bank......

What a cool cartoon..Make;s me wonder what the hell these kids are watching these day!!

 

yup.,.i rember it well! wish i could get a copy of it,,that lil hot rod made and impression on me as a lil kid what a REAL hot rod should be!
the airplane one was cool too!

 

Yeah it is a Tex Avery cartoon.
Says so right here.

 

I love that cartoon.

 

That cartoon was AWESOME! Like was already stated, he finally makes his disapproving dad proud by looking like a taxi, but he keeps his hot rod stuff under the shell.
It illustrates that you can can cover up who you are on the outside and conform but also stay true to who you really are.

 

I had it as my avitar sometime back, after the new format, it wouldnt allow me to use it. Definately a cool cartoon. -Joe

 

Tex Avery = Ruler......eat at joe's!

Brian

 

way cool cartoon. I remember it.

 

Thre is an episode of toonheads that has both the jet and car cartoon. Keep an eye out for it on either boomerang or cartoon network. I love em both, and really enjoy Tex Avery in general. Jay

 

Anybody on here have a pic of jr. when it was a hotrod before it became a cab? Thanks

 

Holy sh*t I totally forgot about that until I saw this post! I loved that cartoon too hehe

 

Great cartoon. For hot rod pic, see avatar.

 

More pics in case anyone is interested. One Cab's Family 1952 by Tex Avery.

Hot Rod picture and Pic after repair as Cab (with hopped up banger!)

 

Where were you guys 8 years ago when I was searching the world over for the " Tijuana Toads "?

I ended up getting it out of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

 

HAHA. I remember that.

Do any of you remember the speedy little taxi? It was a book with a record & the record would beep so you had to turn the page. It was about a taxi that would always get to fires before the fire chief. HMMM.

I think I wore that record out when I was a kid.

Billy

 

I Liked the coupe CARtoon better...!!!!

And I remember both as well!

 

I remember the cartoon pretty well. They used to have like a Tex Avery saturday on cartoon network and I remember one like it but instead of cars it was WWII bombers. They were in a race around the world or soemthing and the kid was a mig jet. The father ran out of fuel or something like that and the kid busted ass to go get it and refuel. It ended up winning the race unpredictably...lol


Both were cool toons. Man I wished I could see em again

 

"A hot rod?!!?"
classic!