The yellow on the trailer was primer. Dupont automotive paint, part numbers 615\616s Variprime. It was a metal etching primer and needed to condition bare metal before topcoating with a paint color such as the knight rider black. Dupont Variprime was a bright yellow, it provided excellent adehison to bare metal, for a top color layer like Imron as used in Commercial applications.
That's what I thought but then in the close ups of the snap locations it's very clear the yellow is on top of who knows how many layers of other paint. The snaps protected little islands of layers of paint when it was soda blasted after Knight Rider.
I was glancing at the snap location as I went by a caution sign on the road. It looks to me like high visability yellow. I dont know for sure. I mean you filmed ut with your camera, processed it through your network uploading to TH-cam streamed across my network to my phone. The color could wasily be brighter or more orange. But it reminded me of that California DOT hi-viz yellow.
Thank you for this update video, I made a discovery today. There is a knightrider street in London near ST Pauls cathedral. I did a little digging thinking it must have been named since the show but the name dates back to the 14th century. I know it's not linked to the show but thought you'd like to know anyway.
Hello Joe! I have worked for Constantin films, a movie production company here in germany and they gave me an assignment to paint and colorring some cars they need for a german tv show. They wanted me to pre paint their Cars in light yellow first and then i should paint them in darkblue. The reason for this was, that on their cameras they used to film with, the darkblue paint was very very dark. But if you stand in front of the paintjob in real, it was not that dark. So they wanted me put an light paint under the darkblue paint and on camera then, the paint looked brighter and almost as it was in reallife. Maybe the producers of Knight Rider had the same problem because of the golden stribes?
Some paints aren't super opaque and the color and darkness of the primer can affect the look of the paint. It's a big problem with yellows, oranges, and reds. When I repainted the hatch spoiler on a red 2009 Toyota Prius I had to test with three different primers before I was able to get a close enough match on the red. Putting a yellow primer under blue paint should give it a greenish hue, if the blue isn't 100% opaque.
Allied Moving was Yellow Trailers black lettering until the late 70's and rebranded Orange with a hiway on the trailer in the Late 70's early 80's UNITED Moving and Storage was a Yellow Stripe down the Bottom Edge of the trailer from Front to Rear During 70's and 80's 90's Now it is still yellow stripes but on the top Corners of the trailer
to keep the history of the trailer intact , you should create a photo/documents binder of its history as a racing trailer that will sit in the completed trailer that people can look though , now if the trailer was yellow pre knight rider that would make those snaps you removed screen accurate
Once it's all said and done, a coffee table book would be awesome to see. Documenting their journey finding the different cars, along with semi and trailer restorations would probably be well received by fans.
14:11 I'm very impressed that a Trans Am of the era weighs so little, I would have guessed that it weighed at least 100 pounds. Also, if you pull of the Dorsey emblem on the front, and there's yellow underneath it, that probably means that the trailer left the factory bright yellow
@@themobseat Joe made a Freudian slip..lol..he just said 32 pounds would be the weight of the car going up the ramp so it has to be braced and strong enough. I'm sure he meant to say 3200 pounds...
@@KnightRiderHistoriansOfficial on the production line being made, (the lowest common denominator, is white, but did the give it finishing paint job, for the first customer, the brand of yellow or something, the "yellow ^%$£$%^& company, or something?
Interesting find with the yellow paint. I totally agree with Dan D on this one. The Yellow paint was probably the Vari-Prime Dupont primer which was widely used on unfinished bare metal in that time period. I am employed at a large Auto Part store chain which deals with automotive paint. Before the introduction of urethanes and waterborne paints Dupont's Veri-Prime was the answer for metal etching primer. It also was the go-to primer for aluminum and stainless steel as well. The Veri-Prime was a very bright yellow and that was the only color it came in. With the knowledge of paint that I have I can tell you that Dan D is 100% spot on with his theory. I hope this information is helpful to you. Good Luck.
Hi, a very nice idea with brick-build semi! You got a Vote from me! There is an alternative building bricks company in Germany called bluebrixx, they already have a much smaller version of the semi and KITT and also a 1/18 scale KITT…they just call it „americanischer truck & black herocar“ and „schwarzes Heldenfahrzeug“. I have both sets and they are quite nice. So if Mouldking refuses to make the big set, maybe you should get in contact with bluebrixx in germany 😀
It's really interesting to see the rebuild of the trailer, looking forward to seeing it in black and gold. For the rear ramp it may be worth watching the start of Back to the Future you can see the winch mechanism on the Dr's van storing the deloream.
Joe, it's coming along nicely. I can't wait to see the finished product. It's also good you made the parts as individual pieces because you will get a better fit than one bent piece sometimes. Perhaps the trailer was a Mayflower moving company trailer before it made it to the big time.
Perhaps painted yellow for a pre-"Knight Rider" film or television production, or was used privately in that color for a short time before it's tv/film rental ownership. If it was yellow for something like that or later, it'd be hard to miss. Would be neat to see a screenshot or picture of it in yellow if it is out there somewhere.
Awesome! And awesome technical thinking. The real restoration has now started and this is absolutely fantastic. Also an exciting excursion to the very past of the trailer through that yellow paint - the theory of a yellow pre-Knight Rider trailer is not impossible. Thanks a lot!
There could have been a lot of things done to trailer over the years. Once again everyone, IT'S A TRAILER!!! I've said it before, and I'll say it again, I appreciate the efforts that Joe and everyone involved to restore everything from the show. Just think, the Smithsonian is trying to restore the Enterprise (NCC-1701). If Joe had their resources... awesome sauce!!
They did restorae the Enterprise. Its in a glass case on the main floor of the Air & Space Museum at Smithsonian. There's a schedule on when they turn the lights on. (AND ITS GLORIOUS)
@@Rozom the last time I saw her Adam Savage ( formerly of Mythbusters) was looking at her. At the time, they still had some work to do on the nacelles.
@@williammitchell4417 I found the Savage video you were talking about. Indeed its down for repairs again, but the last restoration was when it truly looked its best. Before it hung in the Smithsonian and just looked like it was a generic model. (as the curator described) I hope the nacelles get the love they need and back out to the public.
Hey, I just wanna let you know this is Shannon and I really enjoyed the video and the reference to the night rider trailer Lego however, there is another set that was done that actually is even better designed that was a him design that was sent directly to Lego for approval and it even looks better than that one. The only thing that’s different is the ramps have to be folded up as the door closes which that’s an OK compromise for a trailer that looks even better.
Adding my voice to the yellow discussion. I suspect the yellow was a base coat/primer used by Dorsey. You could confirm this by checking with Dorsey to see they offered this model trailer in yellow in the late 1970s.
🙏Hey Joe. Awesome work on the rear of the Dorsey. I've been meaning to ask you: Do you by chance have any intel on when that Visual FX video will be released? Let me know. Thanks♥🎸
I love your show I am a big fan of Knight Rider my first car was an 84 Firebird that I named kit it was rusted out and only had a 2.8 V6 but I loved it just because it look like kit
carefully remove the yellow on some of the unhderlip... if you hit black again, its after knight rider, if before you should just get metal. Then you'll know :)
Great work, can't wait to see it progress. In that scene where he is climbing out of the roof vent it looks like they removed the vent part from the roof altogether and just placed the lid loose on top, that probably explains how he was able to fit :) If the yellow paint was under the snaps you removed wouldn't that mean the snaps must have been there prior to it being painted black or it was painted yellow before adding the snaps?
Coming along nicely Joe.I can't wait till its finished. Currently in hospital gaining weight for surgery on a hernia.I would like to know how much Was David Hasselhoff, Patricia Mc Pherson and Edward Mulhare get paid per episode of the series? Thankyou.
I do not think that the yellow paint is pre knight rider. The snaps were not visible in the show and the main body was media blasted after the truck was sold for the second time prior to the rear tail light panel being cut up. If it was pre show, the snaps would be seen in shots and after the first private sale, they would have the black paint on top of the yellow. This was more than likely someone who painted the truck after the first sale in their racing team colors and then the truck was blasted (with the snaps still attached) and repainted white for resale to another team.
It would be interesting to see a paint stratigraphy (yep, that's a real thing) analysis done on one of the "islands" of paint the snaps protected from being soda blasted away. How many layers? What colors?
34:30 if one day there'll be no more uploads for a while we know you've fallen off the ladder. Be careful! Nevertheless it's amazing to see the progress already! ^^
I have a question regarding the rear doors on the trailer which is this: Were there two trailers as I remember an episode (from the first season I think) where the FLAG semi was temporarily used by a trucking company and loaded with produce and that trailer had (or seemed to have) normal opening doors at the rear? Devon is suitably concerned and remarks to Michael that the entire rig is worth "half a million". It's one thing that has always puzzled me so any info you may have would be much appreciated
The episode you are thinking of is "Ten Wheel Trouble" and was from season 3. When they are loading the produce you can see the ramp down. There was only 1 trailer, and it NEVER had swing out rear doors. It didn't even have swing doors from the factory at Dorsey....it was a roll up door.
I'd replace the rear panel with the whole new one. I just say that because it'll look nicer when done, no bodywork needed. For sure keep the lowest part. Depends what the welder thinks to. That model is great, I'll vote for it. I'm sure it'll be around a couple hundred but it unique. I know I still want to make a pair in 1/25. United van lines had white and yellow trailers, they had yellow stripes along the bottom. Maybe United was the first owner? don't know why they would sell it off if it's only four years old.
I think what Fanhome was intending was that Garthe 'technically' became Michael Long's half-brother once he was christened as Michael Knight and was more or less born again. Also, Wilton Knight had clearly been surveilling Michael Long for some time before being shot in the desert. He used his monetary resources to do that.
40:43 I just wanted to point this out, but take a look at the rivet that's basically in the middle of the screen, slightly higher than the other two. It clearly has the same yellow paint, but also brown/black paint. Seems to be indicative of some kind of paintjob? Also... have you compared that yellow to the yellow of the pilot? I'm just spitting stuff out here, but who knows...
Hi. There is a picture of the trailer that you have shown a few times from when the trailer was used after Knight Rider. The one with a Trans Am parked next to it. On the side of the trailer you can see the image of a race car in black and white over a field of yellow with yellow lettering. Is this the same shade of yellow as what you found on the side of the trailer? It is possible that this was painted in layers with the bottom one being yellow?
Excellent work on restoring TV history. What was the licence plate number for the trailer in season 3-4, was it the same as the tractor or different, if so what was it?
Joe I wouldn't worry too much about preserving the original piece in this area of the trailer. Documenting the find would serve. Your gonna need the structure to make its ability to load and unload the car, support the ramp, and making sure the trailer is structurally sound should take priority. Most of the original features have been lost to time and will not be reusable in their present state, these details will become irrelevant to making this piece of TV history reliable and functional. If you were to ask Adam Savage about the inner workings of TV props, he would probably say it was done on a budget, in the most efficient manner possible, because at the end of the day it needed to work for 5 to 15 min of camera time, nobody was going to see it, and once it was filmed it was abandoned until it was needed again. You need it to work every time without failure, for much longer than a couple 30 second shots.
29:30 Do you plan on wiring the winch batteries to a smart charger connected to trailer power to keep them charged up and healthy? 1 less maintenance to do
Hello Joe Perhaps it would be possible to write the nationality of the people in brackets on the finished plaque for the semi. So that anyone can also see that the KR community is international. I have already donated. In my case it would be: (A) for Austria. Best regards Bernhard Friess
I like the remade battery box, but it's funny to think that from Bonnie and Devin's point of view, that the high tech trailer could be disabled by a bad guy simply removing two battery cables in an exposed box! 🤣
I'm wondering if that yellow is the anti-corrosion primer, assuming the skin of the trailer is aluminum. It looks like the same stuff that they use on airplanes before the final coat.
What about the book that Michael uses to turn KITTs engine into a jet engine so he could get them back to FLAG for repairs. Is there a way to get a reproduction of the screen used pages?
a stick on reflector.. in the 1980s? on a trailer of all things? sure it's not the exact same thing but with filled in old screwholes somewhere? people had barely just invented stickytape back then :P let alone doublesided stickytape capable of holding a reflector in place outside for years. reflectors come in pretty much the exact same shapes with and without screwholes.
Thinking the Trailer was painted Bright yellow as the first coat, then they applied the black. If I'm not mistaken, wasn't the trailer striped Black and Yellow at one point in the show?
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The yellow on the trailer was primer. Dupont automotive paint, part numbers 615\616s Variprime. It was a metal etching primer and needed to condition bare metal before topcoating with a paint color such as the knight rider black. Dupont Variprime was a bright yellow, it provided excellent adehison to bare metal, for a top color layer like Imron as used in Commercial applications.
That's what I thought but then in the close ups of the snap locations it's very clear the yellow is on top of who knows how many layers of other paint. The snaps protected little islands of layers of paint when it was soda blasted after Knight Rider.
This needs to be pinned.
amazing all the theories listed about the "Primer". most fans don't know how Aluminum and Stainless is prepped for paint ;)
@@captvictor sounds good tell us how the aluminum and stainless steel was painted.
I was glancing at the snap location as I went by a caution sign on the road. It looks to me like high visability yellow. I dont know for sure. I mean you filmed ut with your camera, processed it through your network uploading to TH-cam streamed across my network to my phone. The color could wasily be brighter or more orange. But it reminded me of that California DOT hi-viz yellow.
Happy to support! Thank you so much for adding me to the list.
Thank you for this update video, I made a discovery today. There is a knightrider street in London near ST Pauls cathedral. I did a little digging thinking it must have been named since the show but the name dates back to the 14th century. I know it's not linked to the show but thought you'd like to know anyway.
Hello Joe! I have worked for Constantin films, a movie production company here in germany and they gave me an assignment to paint and colorring some cars they need for a german tv show. They wanted me to pre paint their Cars in light yellow first and then i should paint them in darkblue. The reason for this was, that on their cameras they used to film with, the darkblue paint was very very dark. But if you stand in front of the paintjob in real, it was not that dark. So they wanted me put an light paint under the darkblue paint and on camera then, the paint looked brighter and almost as it was in reallife.
Maybe the producers of Knight Rider had the same problem because of the golden stribes?
Some paints aren't super opaque and the color and darkness of the primer can affect the look of the paint. It's a big problem with yellows, oranges, and reds. When I repainted the hatch spoiler on a red 2009 Toyota Prius I had to test with three different primers before I was able to get a close enough match on the red.
Putting a yellow primer under blue paint should give it a greenish hue, if the blue isn't 100% opaque.
Thanks for the snow 🙂 I'ts always nice to see some trailer updates
Allied Moving was Yellow Trailers black lettering until the late 70's and rebranded Orange with a hiway on the trailer in the Late 70's early 80's UNITED Moving and Storage was a Yellow Stripe down the Bottom Edge of the trailer from Front to Rear During 70's and 80's 90's Now it is still yellow stripes but on the top Corners of the trailer
to keep the history of the trailer intact , you should create a photo/documents binder of its history as a racing trailer that will sit in the completed trailer that people can look though , now if the trailer was yellow pre knight rider that would make those snaps you removed screen accurate
ive got a better idea. so inside there will be an old computer. if you could make that screen play the build videos would be awesome
Once it's all said and done, a coffee table book would be awesome to see. Documenting their journey finding the different cars, along with semi and trailer restorations would probably be well received by fans.
14:11 I'm very impressed that a Trans Am of the era weighs so little, I would have guessed that it weighed at least 100 pounds. Also, if you pull of the Dorsey emblem on the front, and there's yellow underneath it, that probably means that the trailer left the factory bright yellow
We have the original paperwork on the trailer when it was new. It was painted white from the factory.
@@KnightRiderHistoriansOfficial could it have possibly been ordered white, then freshly done in yellow before its first sale so to speak ?
100 pounds?
@@themobseat Joe made a Freudian slip..lol..he just said 32 pounds would be the weight of the car going up the ramp so it has to be braced and strong enough. I'm sure he meant to say 3200 pounds...
@@KnightRiderHistoriansOfficial on the production line being made, (the lowest common denominator, is white, but did the give it finishing paint job, for the first customer, the brand of yellow or something, the "yellow ^%$£$%^& company, or something?
Interesting find with the yellow paint. I totally agree with Dan D on this one. The Yellow paint was probably the Vari-Prime Dupont primer which was widely used on unfinished bare metal in that time period. I am employed at a large Auto Part store chain which deals with automotive paint. Before the introduction of urethanes and waterborne paints Dupont's Veri-Prime was the answer for metal etching primer. It also was the go-to primer for aluminum and stainless steel as well. The Veri-Prime was a very bright yellow and that was the only color it came in. With the knowledge of paint that I have I can tell you that Dan D is 100% spot on with his theory. I hope this information is helpful to you. Good Luck.
We think you guys are correct!
you should build scaffolding tower out of 2x4 for a winter project. that ladder looks sketchy to be out there alone.
Thats the plan!
Looking good Joe can't wait to see it finished.
Hi, a very nice idea with brick-build semi! You got a Vote from me! There is an alternative building bricks company in Germany called bluebrixx, they already have a much smaller version of the semi and KITT and also a 1/18 scale KITT…they just call it „americanischer truck & black herocar“ and „schwarzes Heldenfahrzeug“. I have both sets and they are quite nice. So if Mouldking refuses to make the big set, maybe you should get in contact with bluebrixx in germany 😀
The trailer restore is coming along pretty decent so far.😊
It's great to see the trailer starting to look like it used to. With the window gone, it's only build, build, build.
It's really interesting to see the rebuild of the trailer, looking forward to seeing it in black and gold. For the rear ramp it may be worth watching the start of Back to the Future you can see the winch mechanism on the Dr's van storing the deloream.
Joe, it's coming along nicely. I can't wait to see the finished product. It's also good you made the parts as individual pieces because you will get a better fit than one bent piece sometimes. Perhaps the trailer was a Mayflower moving company trailer before it made it to the big time.
You and me both! Thanks for joining us on the journey!
glitch in the matrix spotted in 22:21
"Don't hold me to that"... 😂😂 You're the best, great vid, great job
Perhaps painted yellow for a pre-"Knight Rider" film or television production, or was used privately in that color for a short time before it's tv/film rental ownership. If it was yellow for something like that or later, it'd be hard to miss. Would be neat to see a screenshot or picture of it in yellow if it is out there somewhere.
Awesome! And awesome technical thinking. The real restoration has now started and this is absolutely fantastic. Also an exciting excursion to the very past of the trailer through that yellow paint - the theory of a yellow pre-Knight Rider trailer is not impossible. Thanks a lot!
Gran proyecto, si señor. Mi más sincera enhorabuena por el gran esfuerzo que realizas en explicar cada detalle que encuentras tras cada movimiento.
Cat cameo at 27:39
There could have been a lot of things done to trailer over the years. Once again everyone, IT'S A TRAILER!!! I've said it before, and I'll say it again, I appreciate the efforts that Joe and everyone involved to restore everything from the show. Just think, the Smithsonian is trying to restore the Enterprise (NCC-1701). If Joe had their resources... awesome sauce!!
They did restorae the Enterprise. Its in a glass case on the main floor of the Air & Space Museum at Smithsonian. There's a schedule on when they turn the lights on. (AND ITS GLORIOUS)
@@Rozom the last time I saw her Adam Savage ( formerly of Mythbusters) was looking at her. At the time, they still had some work to do on the nacelles.
@@williammitchell4417 I found the Savage video you were talking about. Indeed its down for repairs again, but the last restoration was when it truly looked its best. Before it hung in the Smithsonian and just looked like it was a generic model. (as the curator described) I hope the nacelles get the love they need and back out to the public.
I'm jealous about the snow, it's January and approx. temp. in Poland oscillated around +5C Celsius (41F) 🙃
Hey, I just wanna let you know this is Shannon and I really enjoyed the video and the reference to the night rider trailer Lego however, there is another set that was done that actually is even better designed that was a him design that was sent directly to Lego for approval and it even looks better than that one. The only thing that’s different is the ramps have to be folded up as the door closes which that’s an OK compromise for a trailer that looks even better.
Great to see that your now in a position to start the rebuild - can’t wait
Adding my voice to the yellow discussion.
I suspect the yellow was a base coat/primer used by Dorsey.
You could confirm this by checking with Dorsey to see they offered this model trailer in yellow in the late 1970s.
It snowed here yesterday as Im from Boston so we are used to this kind of weather here in New England
Wow ! this is Awesome that you folks are restoring this Awesome piece of History , can't wait to see what you's have coming up 😁 . SKK .
Maybe the yellow paint is a primer coat (?)
Awesome work, Joe. 👍
who has 14 thumbs and never has seen snow in person even though Mt Baldy is pretty close and often gets snow??? this guy!!!
Pre knight rider yellow for sure
🙏Hey Joe. Awesome work on the rear of the Dorsey. I've been meaning to ask you: Do you by chance have any intel on when that Visual FX video will be released? Let me know. Thanks♥🎸
I love your show I am a big fan of Knight Rider my first car was an 84 Firebird that I named kit it was rusted out and only had a 2.8 V6 but I loved it just because it look like kit
Mould King are great Bricks! I hope they sell this set
It’s 100degrees f here and I’m so jealous right now!
Yellow could have been the primer before the black paint.
Im a roofer and your scaring me on that ladder Joe!
Maybe the studio bought the trailer from Rider Rentals?
can't wait to see you try to climb trough that roof vent Joe ! I'm sure everyone here agrees with me that we need to see that :-D
First a primer paint yellow after black color!
carefully remove the yellow on some of the unhderlip... if you hit black again, its after knight rider, if before you should just get metal. Then you'll know :)
Factory color for the trailer was white, so under that yellow should be either white or black
He's already covered that
@@showcasecharlie11 And where did the yellow fit?
@@tskedition you should probably listen to the video.... again
Very nice step, parts for the rear end ready to be welded on. Looking forward to the next part, a big one if the side window will be gone :)
This is awesome starting to see the F.L.A G coming together to its original knight rider trailer 👍
Long shot: Chromate primers are often a yellow green to yellow tint. More than likely its not though, probably just a yellow surface paint.
Can't be a primer because it's on top of the little islands of paint the snaps protected from being removed.
@@greggv8 Ahh yes, rewatching, it is not bottom layer.. so yes, just one of many exterior paints..
Great work, can't wait to see it progress. In that scene where he is climbing out of the roof vent it looks like they removed the vent part from the roof altogether and just placed the lid loose on top, that probably explains how he was able to fit :) If the yellow paint was under the snaps you removed wouldn't that mean the snaps must have been there prior to it being painted black or it was painted yellow before adding the snaps?
nice plasma cut panel
have you ever considered scrapyard search for entire back end?
8 bit NES opening was a cool touch Joe ....I don't like anyone named Joe this week as my Chiefs are playing Joe Burrow and the Bengals ha
Just weld the new pannel to the old part! And open out the bottom of where the original lights where.
The wiring diagrams would look great back-lit
Coming along nicely Joe.I can't wait till its finished. Currently in hospital gaining weight for surgery on a hernia.I would like to know how much Was David Hasselhoff, Patricia Mc Pherson and Edward Mulhare get paid per episode of the series? Thankyou.
Might be yellow zinc chromate primer used on aluminum?
I even put a talking car alarm in a remote start back in 1996 to make it more realistic
For example, there are no Lego locks on the roof of the trailer. The trailer is completely smooth rocks.
I do not think that the yellow paint is pre knight rider. The snaps were not visible in the show and the main body was media blasted after the truck was sold for the second time prior to the rear tail light panel being cut up. If it was pre show, the snaps would be seen in shots and after the first private sale, they would have the black paint on top of the yellow. This was more than likely someone who painted the truck after the first sale in their racing team colors and then the truck was blasted (with the snaps still attached) and repainted white for resale to another team.
My first though was Ryder Truck Rental.
The company Mayflower used Dorsey trailers in the 70’s & 80’s. Maybe this was this trailers first job.
Yellow was a common color for semi trailers to be painted in the 70's.
I was looking online and I thought I remembered something when I was younger. A moving company called Paul Arpin Van Lines
It would be interesting to see a paint stratigraphy (yep, that's a real thing) analysis done on one of the "islands" of paint the snaps protected from being soda blasted away. How many layers? What colors?
34:30 if one day there'll be no more uploads for a while we know you've fallen off the ladder. Be careful!
Nevertheless it's amazing to see the progress already! ^^
Mayflower Moving also used yellow in the 70's and 80's
I have a question regarding the rear doors on the trailer which is this: Were there two trailers as I remember an episode (from the first season I think) where the FLAG semi was temporarily used by a trucking company and loaded with produce and that trailer had (or seemed to have) normal opening doors at the rear? Devon is suitably concerned and remarks to Michael that the entire rig is worth "half a million". It's one thing that has always puzzled me so any info you may have would be much appreciated
The episode you are thinking of is "Ten Wheel Trouble" and was from season 3. When they are loading the produce you can see the ramp down. There was only 1 trailer, and it NEVER had swing out rear doors. It didn't even have swing doors from the factory at Dorsey....it was a roll up door.
@@KnightRiderHistoriansOfficial Thank you. It was just one of those things that niggled me. Strange what you remember isn't it
I wish I got that game in the 80s for Nintendo
I'd replace the rear panel with the whole new one. I just say that because it'll look nicer when done, no bodywork needed. For sure keep the lowest part. Depends what the welder thinks to. That model is great, I'll vote for it. I'm sure it'll be around a couple hundred but it unique. I know I still want to make a pair in 1/25.
United van lines had white and yellow trailers, they had yellow stripes along the bottom. Maybe United was the first owner? don't know why they would sell it off if it's only four years old.
I think what Fanhome was intending was that Garthe 'technically' became Michael Long's half-brother once he was christened as Michael Knight and was more or less born again.
Also, Wilton Knight had clearly been surveilling Michael Long for some time before being shot in the desert. He used his monetary resources to do that.
Maybe Wilton Knight had him shot...
I am jealous! You have snow! Here its only wet snow....or cold rain.......so boring!Whats the status about the tractor?
40:43
I just wanted to point this out, but take a look at the rivet that's basically in the middle of the screen, slightly higher than the other two. It clearly has the same yellow paint, but also brown/black paint. Seems to be indicative of some kind of paintjob? Also... have you compared that yellow to the yellow of the pilot? I'm just spitting stuff out here, but who knows...
Hi. There is a picture of the trailer that you have shown a few times from when the trailer was used after Knight Rider. The one with a Trans Am parked next to it. On the side of the trailer you can see the image of a race car in black and white over a field of yellow with yellow lettering. Is this the same shade of yellow as what you found on the side of the trailer? It is possible that this was painted in layers with the bottom one being yellow?
Excellent work on restoring TV history. What was the licence plate number for the trailer in season 3-4, was it the same as the tractor or different, if so what was it?
21:40 wow how did they fit a series of 100w halogens under the hood for the scanner?
Love the NES intro! 😂
excellent video
Joe I wouldn't worry too much about preserving the original piece in this area of the trailer. Documenting the find would serve. Your gonna need the structure to make its ability to load and unload the car, support the ramp, and making sure the trailer is structurally sound should take priority. Most of the original features have been lost to time and will not be reusable in their present state, these details will become irrelevant to making this piece of TV history reliable and functional. If you were to ask Adam Savage about the inner workings of TV props, he would probably say it was done on a budget, in the most efficient manner possible, because at the end of the day it needed to work for 5 to 15 min of camera time, nobody was going to see it, and once it was filmed it was abandoned until it was needed again. You need it to work every time without failure, for much longer than a couple 30 second shots.
United van lines had yellow at the bottom from front to back back in the day
If the trailer was Yellow at some point Chris Martin might soon visit Joe's house to check out the trailer in person.
Snow?? I thought you were in Florida? Also now that we are approaching restoration, I have to wonder if the Hoff himself is now watching...
29:30 Do you plan on wiring the winch batteries to a smart charger connected to trailer power to keep them charged up and healthy? 1 less maintenance to do
Hello Joe Perhaps it would be possible to write the nationality of the people in brackets on the finished plaque for the semi. So that anyone can also see that the KR community is international. I have already donated. In my case it would be: (A) for Austria. Best regards Bernhard Friess
If the yellow paint is the first color behind those eyelets, it would be after knight rider unless those eyelets are present during the show?
Could the box with the padlock on it contain the winch fuses?
I like the remade battery box, but it's funny to think that from Bonnie and Devin's point of view, that the high tech trailer could be disabled by a bad guy simply removing two battery cables in an exposed box! 🤣
Or just shoot the batteries.
@@greggv8 Except I think the red batteries are Optimas and they used to have ads shooting the battery and then starting a vehicle.
@BlueDually4x4 AGM lead acid batteries didn't exist in the early 1980's
@@greggv8 wasn't sure when they came out. Just barely remember the ad for that matter.
I wonder if the previous owners knew what tv memorabilia they had?
I'm wondering if that yellow is the anti-corrosion primer, assuming the skin of the trailer is aluminum. It looks like the same stuff that they use on airplanes before the final coat.
JOE..You NED to KEEP the ORIGINAL LOWER LIGHT PANEL and graft the new piece in. You'll regret cutting the original piece out trust me.
that "acrylonitrile butadiene styrene" replica is bitchin, I'd so buy it
14:10 A TransAm weighs how much? Is KITT's turbines allowing to hover the rest of the weight?
There’s an episode of BJ & the bear where the trailer is painted yellow
What about the book that Michael uses to turn KITTs engine into a jet engine so he could get them back to FLAG for repairs. Is there a way to get a reproduction of the screen used pages?
Holy cow, that knockoff lego KR set is incredible!
It was a United Vanine trailer that moved house hold goods that was thier yellow
You should open up shop and Florida it was 81° today
a stick on reflector.. in the 1980s? on a trailer of all things? sure it's not the exact same thing but with filled in old screwholes somewhere? people had barely just invented stickytape back then :P let alone doublesided stickytape capable of holding a reflector in place outside for years. reflectors come in pretty much the exact same shapes with and without screwholes.
Could it be zinc chromate primer?
Did the trailer not have a mansion bar?
What was the little black box for
NEED
Thinking the Trailer was painted Bright yellow as the first coat, then they applied the black. If I'm not mistaken, wasn't the trailer striped Black and Yellow at one point in the show?
No it never had yellow on the show
Was it yellow from the factory
No it was white.