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Knight Rider Car for Sale

Posted by samzenpus on Thu Apr 05, 2007 07:04 AM
from the I-work-for-the-knight-foundation dept.
It's funny. Laugh. Media Television
It's time to put on your leather jacket and get ready to hit Turbo Boost. The talking 1982 Pontiac Trans Am from the 80's hit Knight Rider is up for sale. No word on if it comes with David Hasslehoff but with a price tag of $149,995 I'm sure it won't be on the lot for long. I wonder how much the Knight Foundation will give me on a trade in for Magnum PI's Ferrari?
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  • Don't do it! (Score:5, Funny)

    by ZaMoose (24734) on Thursday April 05 2007, @07:08AM (#18618721) Homepage
    It's a trap! As has recently been discovered, KITT is a Cylon [thinkgeek.com]!

    So, unless you particularly enjoy the thought of a genocidal car constantly messing with your mind and trying to take over your home planet, don't buy it.

  • One car? (Score:3, Informative)

    by parasonic (699907) on Thursday April 05 2007, @07:10AM (#18618739)
    For the television show, fifty or so of these cars were produced, so it wouldn't be as hard as you would think to purchase one. Then, of course, you could always build one [knightreplicas.com]!

    • Re:One car? (Score:5, Informative)

      by Scutter (18425) on Thursday April 05 2007, @07:16AM (#18618783) Journal
      For the television show, fifty or so of these cars were produced, so it wouldn't be as hard as you would think to purchase one. Then, of course, you could always build one!

      FTFA: It is one of four documented "camera cars" used for close-up shots and scenes where David Hasselhoff, who played Michael Knight in the series, was behind the wheel.
    • It was definitely a nice looking car for the time, I watched the pilot and I know this might have been partly intentional, but all the other cars in the pilot were just ugly. Still, it's kind of dated now, in my opinion.
    • Well, if the Dukes of Hazzard could have 300+ cars [wikipedia.org], then surely Knight Rider could have at least a paltry 100!

      Through the history of the show, an estimated 309 General Lees were used. Twenty three are still known to exist in various states of repair.

      Dan East
    • I would rather build a replica [madmaxmovies.com] of the Mad Max V8 Interceptor. [madmaxmovies.com]

  • No David, and more caveats. (Score:4, Interesting)

    by strredwolf (532) on Thursday April 05 2007, @07:10AM (#18618741) Homepage Journal
    If you check further in, you'll find out that even though it's perfectly restored, it's illegal to drive -- KITT isn't enviromentally friendly currently. Nice to tow to various conventions, though!
    • *Laughing my ass Hoff*
    • No, you must be wrong there. Didn't it run on water and get 200mpg? That's why the car is expensive - no fuel bills.
      • Not quite. Even though Devon mentioned in the pilot episode it was "Completely fuel efficient", either in the pilot or first series episode, Michael stops and fills up the tank at the pumps. He even got the gas for free because the attendant had gotten spooked after trying to puncture the impervious tires to get a quick tire sale out of the transaction.

    • Re: (Score:2, Insightful)

      by Sqweegee (968985)
      Nothing prevents you from buying it and using it in another state or country where emissions aren't checked regularly.

    • Re: (Score:3, Interesting)

      by DerekLyons (302214)

      If you check further in, you'll find out that even though it's perfectly restored, it's illegal to drive -- KITT isn't enviromentally friendly currently.

      Not quite correct. It's quite legal to drive cars of that vintage - so long as their original anti-pollution systems are intact. KITT's are not. (Which means it would not have been street legal even then.)

    • Re: (Score:3, Funny)

      by PPH (736903)
      In the case of a Trans Am, I think they'll grandfather it in so long as the driver wears the required mullet.

  • Oh... Emm... Geee.... (Score:4, Funny)

    by porkThreeWays (895269) on Thursday April 05 2007, @07:12AM (#18618747)
    I think I just got the biggest geek boner ever.

    • Re:Oh... Emm... Geee.... (Score:5, Funny)

      by Sazarac (621648) on Thursday April 05 2007, @08:55AM (#18619827) Homepage
      I would have too, except that 25 years of coffee, cigarettes and porn at 3MB/s, means that I don't get geek boners anymore without chemical assistance.


      I can't believe that show was 25 years ago, I'm feeling really old today.

  • Bah get a replica instead for far less (Score:3, Informative)

    by Lumpy (12016) on Thursday April 05 2007, @07:15AM (#18618773) Homepage
    Look online the guy that makes the replicas can give you a turn key for less than $70,000 that is complete and to match the season you want.

    Paying huge $$$ for the origional from a B rated Tv show is silly unless you are trillionaire collector. That prop will not go up in price like other items out here.

  • Buy it to shoot it. (Score:4, Funny)

    by 140Mandak262Jamuna (970587) on Thursday April 05 2007, @07:16AM (#18618775) Journal
    You used to suffer all through early 1990s, when your car kept saying "A door is ajar" "A door is ajar". Well, this car is the reason why the automakers thought it would be a great idea to make the cars talk. Buy it and vent all your pent up rage on it.

  • I wonder (Score:5, Funny)

    by Capt James McCarthy (860294) on Thursday April 05 2007, @07:37AM (#18618953) Journal
    If KARR will buy it.
  • Wow, KITT isn't street-legal. So much for the "Foundation for Law And Government!"
    • I read in the past, the reason KITT wasn't street legal was because it does not have a functional front bumper. It has a molded plastic air scoop where the bumper would be and it extends out several inches further than the regular bumper would.

  • KITT, I need ya, buddy (Score:4, Funny)

    by Dachannien (617929) on Thursday April 05 2007, @07:45AM (#18619037)
    I wonder if the micro jammer still works.

    On everything.

  • So... (Score:5, Funny)

    by Geekfather (1012353) on Thursday April 05 2007, @07:57AM (#18619119)
    If I buy K.I.T.T. and park it on the streets of London, do you think the car and the Big Brother cameras will argue?
  • ...Jay Ohrberg, who also designed and/or built such notable vehicles as the original cruiser for RoboCop [robertwebb.com] (not the spraypainted Taurus we now know), the 100' limo [thelongest...nglast.com], the original Bat-mobile (designed by George Barris), the Pink Panther car [cityoflondon.gov.uk], and a handful other more or less practical vehicles.

  • KITT through the ages (Score:5, Funny)

    by ettlz (639203) on Thursday April 05 2007, @08:16AM (#18619291) Homepage Journal
    The original KITT AI:

    Michael, are you sure that's a good idea?
    Then, in 1997, came KITTY:

    Hello, Lone-Crusader-In-A-Dangerous-World! It looks like you're trying to champion the cause of the innocent, the helpless, and the powerless in a world of criminals who operate above the law. Would you like me to:
    • Blockade the bad guys?
    • Tell you remember your seat-belt?
    • Track down the bad guy with my hypersonic moustache-sensor?
    • Do a trick?
    Ten years later, we have KITSTA:

    The operation "Emergency Stop" requires extra privileges. Cancel, Allow?

  • that doesn't sound like a lot of money (Score:3, Funny)

    by Ace905 (163071) on Thursday April 05 2007, @08:17AM (#18619309) Homepage
    I'm sort of surprised that hasselhoff himself isn't buying the car.

    I know he really hated that show near the end, and after it was canceled he started referring to his 'gigs' showing up with the car as 'the dog and pony show'. Still though, how funny would it be to throw on a leather jacket and go cruising in your old talking car?

    He might not get the babes, but what cop in his right mind would give him a speeding ticket? He's the KnightRider!

    ---
    Knight Ride This! [douginadress.com]
  • This really is a career opportunity. Take an older car towards which males of a certain age feel an emotional affirmative bond. Add a CPU with an "Eliza" program, a speech synthesizer, a text-to-speech analyser, and add robotic interfaces to the vehicle's motion controls. Sell for ten times the price of the car and the electronics.

    It is not a good idea to assume that there is always going to be a job awaiting you and your skills. An idea like the one above provides a means to generate an

    • Re: (Score:3, Informative)

      by Billosaur (927319) *

      Can't watch it anymore. It may have appealed to the teenage me, but now you just wince to see David Hasselhoff bantering with the car. Of course, mind you, the car was far more intelligent than Pamela Anderson...

    • > Has anyone else had a similar experience?

      Bingo.
      Same thing happened with other shows (Hart to Hart, for example).
      Just google for one of the sites that collect plots for all the shows - it's a pain to even read it.
      No wonder my parents didn't want me to see it back then....

    • With the formulaic plots, cheesy dialog, and an endless supply of smug, I felt embarrassed by my early fanatical devotion.

      Stop making fun of House! That's one of my favorite...

      Oh. You were talking about Knight Rider. Never mind!
    • That's why children aren't responsible for their actions (for the most part) until they're 18.

      That said, and I'm well over 18 now, I just finished adding all the episode DVDs to my NetFlix list. That's because I was the kid who spent his allowance on the S&H costs to get the detailed KITT schematics mailed to me.
      • Don't forget the Volvo P8, in my opinion the best James Bond car ever, and which took over as dream car in my life after Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

        And to the article poster: The Ferrari wasn't Magnum P.I.'s -- it belonged to Higgins.

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