For Sale: KITT

[Furtherman]

http://images.chron.com/photos/2007/03/29/5714438/311xInlineGallery.jpg

Knight Rider's KITT restored, up for sale at auto dealer (http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/entertainment/4681756.html)

Russo purchased the car 10 years ago at an auction in San Diego, and has spent the last decade finding parts to restore it.

Hello Jack's Auto Parts? Yes, do you happen to have a rocket boost? No? Hmmm. How about an eject seat? Hello? Hello?

[A.J.]

Fuck that -- I want KARR.

[Furtherman]

I believe KARR was destroyed. Exploded and scattered off a cliff into the ocean if I remember correctly.

So... you can't have KARR A.J.! Duh.

[A.J.]

Well then I'll take Garth Knight's truck, Goliath.

[reillyluck]

Doesnt Joey Fatone own the Knight Rider Car?

[FUNKMAN]

no kaboodle?

the kids back :-)

corny as ever

[Radioguy]

Not street legal? What's the point if you can't show it off at Waldbaums while loading your groceries???

[Furtherman]

Doesnt Joey Fatone own the Knight Rider Car?

No, he just owns William Daniels' toupee. Duh.

[Doctor Manhattan]

Not street legal? What's the point if you can't show it off at Waldbaums while loading your groceries???

Aside from the dashboard and the red LEDs in the grill, how is KITT different that any other black 1981 Trans Am? I bet you can get the LEDs put in really cheap.

[Crippler]

F- KITT...I still say we should follow GVac's suggestion & all kick in & buy the Batmobile.

[Furtherman]

F- KITT...I still say we should follow GVac's suggestion & all kick in & buy the Batmobile.

He didn't suggest that here. Or does he just bring that up randomly in converstions?

[Crippler]

The auction has since past, but the idea was brilliant.

http://www.ronfez.net/forums/showthread.php?t=55984&highlight=batmobile

[johnniewalker]

I always dreamed of having airwolf as a kid, but ernest borgnine has to be part of the deal.

[furie]

first the original batmobile, now Kitt! is nothing sacred?

[Radioguy]

Aside from the dashboard and the red LEDs in the grill, how is KITT different that any other black 1981 Trans Am? I bet you can get the LEDs put in really cheap.

It might be that the yellow fog lights were modded or something. (thought I heard that somewhere)

[PapaBear]

Aside from the dashboard and the red LEDs in the grill, how is KITT different that any other black 1981 Trans Am? I bet you can get the LEDs put in really cheap.
There was a copy of KITT at Corry Station Navy Training Center in Pensacola, FLA back in 1988. The guy did a pretty good job modding it. I don't know why I never took a picture of it.

[Furtherman]

Also for sale: Mio Knight Rider GPS is awesome, as clumsy to use as a regular GPS (http://dvice.com/archives/2008/06/dvice_tv_mio_kn.php)

GPS has made talking cars such an everyday occurrence that it's hard to believe no one's thought of tying the technology to the original talking car — Knight Rider's KITT — until now. The idea people at Mio have been hard at work on a Knight Rider GPS, which they just unveiled this morning, and they were kind enough to give DVICE a hands-on sneak peek yesterday.

Obviously, the navigator's design is inspired by KITT, and that would be the black Trans Am from the original series, not the Mustang from the new show that starts up in September. Besides a gloss-black exterior, it also has a couple of vertical LEDs that light up when it talks, sorta, kinda like KITT's. Pretty cheesy so far, yeah, but it gets better — the voice of the GPS is indeed that of William Daniels, who spoke KITT's turn-by-turn directions to David Hasselhoff in the TV show.

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