I didn't recognize the voice at first, but our hero is now voiced by Nancy Cartwright of Bart Simpson fame. I notice that Putt-Putt's voice actor has changed, likely because the original child actor was sounding too old by 1998. (There's a funny bit here as Putt-Putt's dog Pep sniffs around the mail delivery truck's tires, causing her to hasten on her rounds.) Pep climbs into Putt-Putt's interior, we have nothing else in the inventory trunk, and we're off to the races! As the story gets underway, the mail truck arrives to deliver an invitation from Redline Rick to Putt-Putt, inviting him to enter the Cartown 500 race.