Restoring the Knight Rider Tour Car
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Watch as one of the six Universal Studios officially licensed "Knight Rider" tour cars is restored by our friend and honorary Knight Rider Historian, Greg Hackett. This K.I.T.T. car toured extensively in the United States and New Zealand in the 80's, and now has a new lease on life!
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Once a knight rider fan always a knight rider fan
AMEN
So true....
Nothing could be closer to the truth!
You can say that again!
True
I’ve got a photo sitting in this car in the 80’s as a child in Alabama, I’m in my 40’s. Great job on restoring this car and thanks for the memories
Will always prefer the Trans Am model KITT to that Mustang.
Retro styling, bland ass dashboard.... What were the show runners thinking?
I liked the stang. Wasn’t as much of a kitt vibe though,
I’ve still got a picture of myself in this car from the 1980s sitting in this car in the Paramus mall in NJ
If I'm being honest and I am. I'm a 2000s baby and in my opinion this is the universes greatest show! Never gets old, I couldn't tell u how much I love this show❤️
A tribute to hit 1982 TV series Knight Rider. After more than 35 years the car still looks very beautiful. Till this day fans duly remember this action packed show.
Wow TH-cam just recommended this video to me and I actually sat in this car back in the 80's! Too cool! :)
Do you have any pictures? We would love to see them! Knightriderhistorians@gmail.com
Love it! I remember as a 10yr old going for a very fast ride in this car around the local timber yard, including a knight rider style slide turn, when it came to Blenheim NZ on the tour. I have a Polaroid photo somewhere taken sitting in it also. From memory the driver could only take rides in about 10min bursts because the engine was getting too hot. Riding in that car is a childhood memory I will never forget! Thanks for posting the video. I always wondered what became of that particular car.
I was a sucker for this series. Best car series ever
Holy cow!! I still have my Hot Rods Show World magazine from that tour!! I never threw it away because of my love for KITT!!
My favorite t.v. show
What's awesome is everyone who's in Kitts presence has a good ole kool aid smile!😊😊😊 always loved knight Rider awesome job knight historians and thank you
I remember seeing the touring car in 1983. I was 10. One of my best childhood memories. Somewhere I have the picture of me sitting in KITT.
What a beauty. Truly awesome car! KITT I need ya buddy! There's ALWAYS a
home in my garage KITT.
This is SO cool. I didn't know the story of the car in that Hot Rod article (with the lovely lady), but now I do, I am overjoyed to see it. I am also blown away that K.I.T.T is so big down under in New Zealand, that's awesome. Outstanding video. ☺
I sat in that K.I.T.T. when it was on tour in Omaha, NE.
Love the fact the keys on the centre console are from a VIC-20!
kitt will Never go out of style. .. it the most amazing and attractive car well known. ..if I had the money I would definitely buy a kitt. .knight rider. ..●¿●
I remember seeing it at the 2007 Big Boy's Toys. I'm glad to see it's been restored.
Holy Moly, I sat in that car in the 80's in Christchurch, much like a lot of other people did. I think I have the photo somewhere too.
I wonder if this car is actually street-legal in NZ? They have very strict regulations on custom cars, and most of the American hot-rod type cars would fail certification in NZ.
I guess it is mostly interior that make up KITT, but I expect the California plates are not legal in NZ, and this car also has no front plate, which is also illegal in NZ - you have to have front AND rear plates. I guess being a show car, it does not require 'Official' licensing, so long as you truck it place to place, and only drive it on private roads and no public ones.
Id like to see the later version that had Super Pursuit Mode. With the added aero.
You'd have to find a hobbyist made replica then. None of the super pursuit mode cars (the static one, or the engineless transforming one) survive, since they were all built out of train derailment cars that were required to be crushed after the show ended.
Awesome !
Never knew David and KITT had been to New Zealand in the 80's
I saw KITT, when I was 9 years old back then, and although I was not able to have a photo taken with KITT, because my parent’s couldn’t afford it. I remember seeing the car and also saw a lot of kids in a line so I asked my mum, if I could go and have a photo taken with KiTT, my mum asked me if she had to pay money to have photo taken? I said I don’t know, I will go and ask. I went and asked the person in the office and asked the man behind the counter and he said I had to pay and that is $80. I thanked him and told my mum and she said no, sorry as she not have much money. I was sad, but I got over it. I have it as a memory, and that is worth more than a photograph
That kind of policy is common, especially for conventions and such, to have to pay extra money (above and beyond the ticket price) just to speak to a celebrity or have your photo taken with them. The only time I ever paid was for what I knew would be a once in a lifetime event, because the person was likely to never visit again.
The keys on the centre console look like they're from a commodore 64.
Toured Australia as well. That was me in one of the Polaroid photos.
I still have the issue of Modern Motor magazine it was featured in on it's Australian tour. Great to see it still exists.
Wow I sat in that very car in 1983 at the World of Wheels show in Indianapolis Indiana
Michael Storm me too!!! I think the photo was a Polaroid picture if memory serves me right.
Awesome
the most beautyfull car ever.. amazing front nose...this is a season 4 nose that is aexactly the same with the original cars... all others I have seen in replicas are not screen accurate
Interesting. Thanks
Great job. Greeting you from germany 👍🇺🇸🇩🇪
I'm pretty sure I've been to this location more than once. To think, I live in the same city KITT retired to and I've never bumped into him having a snack at a petrol station or anything.
Pdm. Seats are supposed to be cloth, and voice light box is different still a really nice car.
Nice one! How about making a video about how you found your screen used stunt car, saved it and restored it? We saw it restored, but what about the journey? :)
They used Commodore VIC-20-Keycaps (5:10). Is that just on the tour car or was that on the actual filming cars too?
I assumed Breadbin C64 myself, but VIC-20 does seem more likely.
@@HyRax_Aus If you look closely, you can recognize the font used on the keycaps. The VIC-20s font is different from the font used on the C64. It's a bit more "square-ish", if you know what i mean. But it's good to know, I'm not the only one who has recognized this... 😂
I'm a big knight rider fan
Hey I'd love a history on all the original tour cars and where they are today pls :)
Who was the idiot that removed everything! What kind of logic is it to restore it back to a normal Trans Am?
Another idiot did the same to Airwolf. He removed all the add-ons and make it back a normal helicopter that eventually crashed in Germany.
@@VideoAmateurLuxembourg You're wrong about Airwolf. The add-ons were removed by owner before it was sold.
@@VideoAmateurLuxembourg It was used as an ambulance helicopter.....you ever saw an ambulance helicopter with fake turbo engines and fake missile an machinegun pods??
one mud puddle in the whole video and the A$$ driving hits it 😭
Thought the same darn thing.
Sat in it at northland's Christchurch
I want that car now
I have a childhood picture with this car somewhere
Pretty sure I sat in that car on QLDs Sunshine Coast. I have a picture somewhere.
interesting video
I was in that car when it was in Toronto Canada
The original kitt is awesome always will be.
Pop up and down head lights!!
I'd love to get a tour KITT. I'd take it to car shows, and events in Australia. If you know of anyone who wants their KITT showed in Australia let me know.
if I ever had a chance to do a replica of KITT I'd do mine in the 2 tone colors of KARR!
I have a picture of my older brother sitting in that car with a big banner saying Knight Industries two thousand background around 1985
No way I have a picture of me taken with this same car as a kid!
Let's see it! knightriderhistorians@gmail.com
@@KnightRiderHistoriansOfficial Just sent the photo! Let me know if it is!
Y'all should get William Daniel's to do some voice over work as the voice of Kitt for you it would be fun for your channel
@2:20 - over on the rear drivers side. was that a part of the apparatus that the drivers used when blind driving or something else?
Whoever would tear down a classic icon like that should be horsewhipped..
Kitt has has never looked so good
I want to get this car.
I knew it came to New Zealand as i saw it in Dunedin you had to line up for miles lol.
Glad the tour car has been restored. It must be someone who didn't care about, to "destroy" such a famous car.
Man i swear, even in the year 3000, KITT will be known! I pretty much think that is the only movie car that its story will never fade away! Its the only movie car that people will keep making replicas from it. It will never stop! Unless the earth will run out of stock trans ams and firebirds of that year!.... i dont care about no damn flying cars or any electric shit....i want kitt with a big ass v8!!
I would like to have the opportunity to take a ride in KITT with David Hasselhoff.
Is it the same one that came to Mexico? I sat in that car when I was little.
Where can it be seen these days?
Wenn das Fahrzeug auch in Deutschland auf Tour war z.B. in Delmenhorst bei Karstadt gestanden hat dann habe ich ebenfalls in diesem Fahrzeug gesessen das war so ca. 1990/91 :)
I have those Hot Rod magazine pages.
Is that gonna be the for the movie
ese es kitt riden el primero auto fantastico de la serie ese es queria yo renovadan nuevo kitt riden maikel lon maikelnay ok 🇺🇾🇪🇸🇺🇸🚙👍👏👱♂️❤️✅🤖🏡
I’m guessing William Daniels voice recording is gone?
Sat in that car in Milwaukee world of wheels and found pic of it
Oddly enough, probably 3 weeks ago I texted my mom to see if she still had the Polaroid of me with this car in Anchorage, Alaska.
Looks like darth Vader's bathroom...lol
😍😍😍💖💖💖
I have a picture of a very young me sitting in this car at the Houston Auto Rama
Did u write the KR books? Like KR Legacy and a man with his talking car for 30 years?
Auckland?
am i bad for thinking that cars like this should always be in museums instead of private collections? I mean i can see why people want them for themselves......but at the same time i feel everyone should be allowed to at least see these things in their prime.
At 3:28 I see keys from a Commodore 64 keyboard.
Always wondering...why these replicas had those stupid tires with the white letters? It`s like the red scanner bar in green!
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Only just noticed the keyboard buttons from a commodore computer..
I don't get the end LOL.
Knight Rider seats were cloth not leather
I do not understand why anyone would take KITT and modify it. Why not just buy a untouched car and modify it? Transforming KITT into something he's not is like, um, I don't know, like, um, some major studio / theme park conglomerate taking a sci-fi franchise and changing it into something it never was. 🥴
Its funny how they always called kitt the "Black T-top" not black Trans am on the show . only a few early episodes they said Trans am.
You took the KR stuff out!! Wow buddy you messed up
1:28 Oh, did they use Commodore VIC20 or C64 keys for K.I.T.T.? Were the same keys in the actual film cars?
3:02 Wow, the then owner must've been absolutely braindead! Wth, unbelieveable!
SUPER AUTO KITT NUMMER 1GUTES VIDEO
Man if that's the one that I got to sit in in Dayton Ohio at the Hara Arena 😥😥😥 I sure hope not to see a car destroyed like that and then sold because of shipment I don't care if they did tear it down and bring it back it was ruined!
Why would you distribute theoriginal
I would want to be buried in it
Hello everybody on TH-cam my name is Reyo and I also want to say that I am a very big fan of the Knight Rider TV series from 1982-1986 and when I was about eleven years old I also had a little Trans am toy car back in the early 90s from 1991 well in fact I did have two Trans am toy cars by the way.
why & which crazy insane people did poorly modify partial interior towards un upmost worn condition at all !?!? minimum to keep the original parts in the trunk when modifying. fully senseless to exchange the orig scanner by halogen lights - why removing the old TV... shame
Goood work. And the IDIOT who destryed this car by instaling shit lights and removing and painting interior should be PUNISHED!!!!
For a licensed car, it sure as hell is inaccurate!
Everyone has their own opinion of "screen accuracy" concerning movie or TV vehicles. Modern restorers need to work with what they can get if parts aren't readily available.
Sorry but that car belongs back in America in the old USA
For a licensed car, it sure as hell is inaccurate!
Calm down, man! That's how K.I.T.T (Tour Edition) was made!
It’s decent except for that center console. That’s easy enough to correct. There is a guy in Italy with perhaps the best two-screen S1/2 dashes. He could whip up a show-accurate panel like it was nothing.