Knight Rider Car for Sale

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?

Don't do it!

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.

Re:Don't do it!

That car does miracles, any geek with enough money should try to get it. Just take a look at this [pythong.org]

Re:Don't do it!

Cylon Rider?

Knight Cylon. They were going for the late night singles market.

Yes, ...

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.

... get the brand-spankin'-new-looking red '58 Plymouth Fury over there instead.

One car?

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?

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.

No David, and more caveats.

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!

Oh... Emm... Geee....

I think I just got the biggest geek boner ever.

Re:Oh... Emm... Geee....

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

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.

Re:Bah get a replica instead for far less

Paying huge $$$ for the origional from a B rated Tv show is silly unless you are trillionaire collector.

I don't know why you'd call Knight Rider, "B rated". It's campy and cheesy in retrospect, but it wasn't cheap or unpopular.

Buy it to shoot it.

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.

Anyone seen the show lately?

I used to love this show as a kid! But a couple years ago I saw an episode of it, and found it completely unwatchable. I think it was a relatively good episode, too. With the formulaic plots, cheesy dialog, and an endless supply of smug, I felt embarrassed by my early fanatical devotion.

Has anyone else had a similar experience?

Re:Not fair

I thought there were two huge reasons myself...

I wonder

If KARR will buy it.

Re:I wonder

But.. but.. KARR was destroyed ! Oh no - they must have reassembled him from that little blinking light that was left in the debris ! Oh no ! Micheal ! Come back ! We need you !

Re:I wonder

Actually, Lore [wikipedia.org] bought KARR - one evil prototype to another.

Another Hollywood illusion shattered.

Wow, KITT isn't street-legal. So much for the "Foundation for Law And Government!"

KITT, I need ya, buddy

I wonder if the micro jammer still works.

On everything.

Magnum didn't own the car

It belonged to the estate.

So...

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?

More than one?

Didn't they, like, build a whole bunch of those cars?

I thought there was more than one.

Y

knight rider

man and that show sucked. the future of technology was a talking car with d. hasselhoff ( no insult intended). how embarassing.

No mention of its designer...

...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

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

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!

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Knight Ride This! [douginadress.com]

career opportunity - car pals!

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 income using your skills outside the 'human resources' envelope. So don't snicker at it so comtemptously.

hmmm

lol, I can just imagine the car working like this clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUkt8yP_HhI [youtube.com]

Hammer and Coop

Ah, the old days. Relive all the craziness at once [hammerandcoop.com].

Way back when..

I used to work in a 10min quick lube. One of these up close cars was in frequently for oil changes. It looked pretty cool. Had these little cassette things that would play kitt's voice.

For craps sakes!

It's a Pontiac!
149k for a 1982 fall apart car is outrageous.

wait, wait, back up..

FTA:

Most of the buttons don't do anything, Verhoek said

Does this mean one of the buttons might do something? If I push them all but eject, and they all do nothing, should I not push eject??

I'll take the car...

...without the Hoff. Thanks.

Ebay

I was watching the Jay Leno Show, and in the segment 'We found it on Ebay' they looked at a replica of this car! Its price was only 16500 though ... though noone bid on it.

Windshield wipers

I wonder how much are the windshield wipers...

But what about The Voice!

I'd buy it if I could also get William Daniels to redo all the voice work but insert my name instead of "Micheal"

Replicas are a plenty

Can't imagine paying that much. KITT replicas have been around for years: http://www.knightregistries.com/ [knightregistries.com]

TV Cars list

Batmobile -check General Lee -check Magnum P.I.'s Ferrai -check and KITT -check Whats next A-Team Van? "Ah pitty da fool who buys this hunk of garbage, ha ha ha ha!"

Paper Delivery?

I was sure it said Knight Ridder Car For Sale.

camp festival

how much for just the camp voice synthesizer?
or perhaps they've now got a new camp plugin for festival?

Re:DON'T BUY IT!

The post above:

It's a trap! As has recently been discovered, KITT is a Cylon!

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.

Parent post:

It's really a CYLON!

REDUNDANCY!

Wait... this thread is also redundant! .... that statement was also redundant! .... that statement was also redundant! .... that statement was also redundant! .... that statement was also redundant! .... that statement was also redundant! [boom]

Re:Sheesh...

I guess that the guy who will buy it has already a Ferrari Testarossa, an Aston Martin Vanguard, and all the models from the Porsche 911 and is buying the company your are working for just because he was pissed after reading your comment ...

Re:YES!

Yup, one of those boy band guys have one in their garage, Im sure they had more than one made

Airwolf...

But can someone give me a call when "Airwolf" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airwolf [wikipedia.org] is put up for sale...

Sorry to burst your bubble, but it's already been sold [achewood.com].