michelle

i got many more knight rider models planed some actual knight rider KITTs and some are my own creations and 2 other knight rider inspired models though i still have to track down a couple particular firebirds and get 5 aoshima knight rider KITT kits 3 of the same kit and one each of 2 different kits

i really love knight rider as it is a mix of two of my favorite genres sci-fi and crime solving procedural dramas the thing is i only got into knight rider late august of this year when i started to watch clips from episodes on youtube and then found a cool channel that has episode commentaries loaded with behind the scenes info and lots of other awesome info on the different cars used in the show and i got a blu-ray knight rider complete series box set early last month and binge watched the full series and learned about KITTs systems and capabilities and propulsion the thing is we never see the turbine turbo jet engine in the show just mentioned it we also never saw the underside of KITT unless they had it disguised with the skid plates or a full cover over the full bottom or good under hood shots in the show

thank you KITT's turbine turbojet engine ran on liquid nitrogen not gas but in early season 1 episodes KITT was able to use any type of combustible fuel and could separate the harm full by products and break them down to the base molecules as KITT did not have a normal exhaust system but something else that can withstand high temps like from a turbo jet but not a ram jet as after KITT was damaged in the las vegas desert after the first encounter with goliath so to get them back to flag headquarters michael has to reconfigure KITT's damaged turbine turbojet engine into a ram jet just to get back home

this is a replica of the hero car used in season 1 and 2 I made this using two different original 1/25 scale mpc knight rider models one was almost complete kit that had some parts melted to the tires and a partial glue bomb built up I basically just swaped the body hood and glass from the glue bomb built up with the ones from the almost complete kit the some of the engine bay parts and turbo jet engine came from spare Jada 1/24 scale die-cast KITT I also used the dash decals from it also I scratch built the tow bar receiver that allowed both the hero car the insert car and the back up to the hero car to be attached to a Camera truck so they could film out on the actual roads with the either just David or David and someone else in the car doing driving scenes it is also how you can tell if the car on screen is one of the 3 cars mentioned above or one the stunt cars which did not have the tow bar receiver

Very nice work restoring it you can’t tell that it is not the original parts

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this is the amt/ertl 91 Pontiac firebird gta the kit with the black model art on the box I modified a mpc knight rider dash and lower console to look like the season 3/4 dash and lower console I swapped the seats with a set of knight rider pmd seats I also used a spare aoshima knight rider season 4 overhead console I modified the nose and added a set of side air vents and replaced the kit rims with some from my part boxes and added a custom set of hubcaps I made with Lego pieces to them

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Thank you The original name for KITT was going to be TATT which stood for trans am two thousand the knight industries 2000 was going to be Wilton knight’s plane a custom Lear jet which which the plans were stolen by the same group that left Michael long for dead at the start of the pilot and that Michael knight took down at the end of the pilot as for the Datsun z idea it was rejected by glen a Larson the creator as soon as it came up

thanks most knight rider fans don't care for how the car looks in the film

nice work i prefer the new version better well up till season 4 anyways after that it left cbs i quit watching i know i would love to find a model of the ferrari roadster magnum drives in the new show side not the first episode of the first season of the new series they had magnum driving this type of ferrari to chase after the bad guys and it gets completely destroyed

this is the amt/ertl knight rider 2000 knight 4000 1/25 scale kit i decided to make a what if version with one of these kits this is what if michael knight had had more time then he had when putting KITT into the knight 4000 he had enough time to tint the taillights and repaint the body and even mod the dash with the remains of KITT's original interior and some custom rims that resembled the originals i also made custom knight rider 2000 figures of michael, shawn and mr maddock i made the custom hubcaps from legos and the original KITT voice modulator and steering wheel came from a spare jada 1/24 scale KITT i also used putty to create the upper control console according to the original designer and builder of the 4 screen used cars the knight 4000 was going to be black and the dash was to be a mix of the left over interior parts from KITT after his body was recycled into cans and most tech was sold off to medical research firms but the studio nixed the color and wanted it red cause they figured it would get young women interested in the show if the pilot movie did well as they wanted shawn to replace michael as KITTs partner and driver and the reason the interior did not happen was due to a disagreement with glen a larson nd why michael ,devon, and KITT did not act or seam like they were in the original show also all 4 cars built for the film had to be redesigned and rebuilt from the nose back after pontiac told them to make it look less like the 88 pontiac banshee concept car

amazing work looks great

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i know this is a idea for a a full modern remake set in 82-86 which is mentioned in the description below the video of my build plus the idea using the a 3rd gen camaro for KITT came from the mythbusters episode were they tested if you could really drive a car up into a semi trailer while semi was driving which was done in knight rider half the time the other half the semi was parked alongside a road also 1/25 and 1/24 scale 83 and 85 camaro model kits are easier and cheaper to find then 1/25 and 1/24 scale 82 an 83 trans am kits

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thank you i have more knight rider builds coming