I don't consider myself a mechanic but I do consider myself good with electrical work. He is not very happy about it but it was a project that I wanted to see if I was capable of doing. This is it! You don't find many of these on the road today! This is a 1982 Pontiac Firebird S/E model that I spent two solid years redone as Kitt from Knight Rider. On March 1st if I don't have a BUY IT NOW I will contact the highest offer I received.ĭONT BE AFRAID TO MAKE AN OFFER I WILL CONSIDER ANYTHING. So with all of that in mind feel free to send offers. It is crazy the shape this car is in for how old it is. Under the hood looks like a somewhat new car. I would even suggest putting a bigger motor in it even though this motor works perfectly well. This car in my opinion needs a good paint job and there is some dents and dings that need to come out. It is not flawless by any means and could use some more work on this car. If someone pays the BUY IT NOW it is theirs! I realize the price is set high but I don't just want to give this car away after all the work I put into it. Look at all that empty front overhang! You can also see the tell-tale VW double torsion-beam front axle there, and the normal air-cooled VW engine is out back there, with what appears to be some kind of periscope-looking air intake sticking up.1982 Pontiac Firebird S/E Coupe 2-Door Additional Info:ĭO NOT BE AFRAID TO OFFER AN AMOUNT! I WILL BE TAKING OFFERS UNTIL MARCH 1st! I will take offers and think them over! If I do not accept your offer right away I might contact you later and accept. …but designed to fit the dimensions of a Pontiac Trans Am, and especially one of the rubber bodies the team had already made for the rubber protective shell for KITT. So, the production team built what is essentially a tube-framed VW sand rail: If something broke, VW parts were plentiful and cheap. But, in Southern California in the 1980s, there was a rugged, very adaptable and wildly cheap and available car that would work: the Volkswagen Beetle.īeetles had been converted into dune buggies and sand rails for years, and were great at doing jumps and landing and generally taking all sorts of abuse. They couldn’t just replace Trans Ams or Trans Am parts like candy, after all. When it came to doing stunts that demanded KITT really catch some air or crash hard into or onto something, the team needed something more rugged, lighter, and, especially, cheaper than the Trans Ams they used for KITT. Turns out, you can, and that’s exactly what the prop people on Knight Rider Did: So, when it comes to having your hero car bash into other cars every episode and yet you somehow need it to not look like a beer can on the floor after a frat party, could you just, you know, make a huge rubber shell to cover the whole car and protect it? Like the old cliché about making the whole airplane out of whatever the black box flight recorder is made from: doing so would be far too heavy and expensive, and you know the deal. The first fact feels like one of those ideas you’d have that seems so obvious, but you also half expect that there’s likely a reason why you could never actually do it. And, even better, it involves lots of rubber and air-cooled Volkswagens.ĭo you need to be reminded about Knight Rider? Probably not, but it can’t hurt, right? Here you go: They’re both remarkable behind-the-scenes details that mostly have to do with how a TV show that relied on a hero car that gets put into potentially damaging situations every week deals with the realities of what that means. Both of these come from the Knight Rider Historians Official YouTube account, so you know that they’re for real and well-researched, and possibly funded via a MacArthur Genius Grant, though I have no proof of that. I can’t recall exactly what sent me down this particular path into the world of David Hasselhoff and the sentient, fussy-sounding Trans Am known as KITT, but I recently learned about two related Knight Rider facts that are just too fascinating to not tell you about.
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