El Coche Super Fantastico!
Manolo says, ayyyyyyyy! The K.I.T.T. is for sale!
KITT, the flame-throwing, river-jumping, talking muscle car from the `80s TV show “Knight Rider,” is up for sale. Restored to its debut-season glory, the modified black 1982 Pontiac Trans Am is offered at $149,995 at a Dublin auto dealership. Johnny “Vette” Verhoek of Kassabian Motors has had the car, officially called Knight Industries Two Thousand, on display for about a month.
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.Although it cannot achieve the 300 mph speeds that KITT reached, soar 50 feet in the air or throw smoke bombs, key features of the star car are intact. Perhaps most important, the red scanner light on the nose glows and makes a humming noise.
Now, if only the Manolo had $150,000 and the driver’s license
April 3rd, 2007 at 8:53 am
ah, as soon as I heard KITT was for sale, I thought of The Manolo! (What does that say about me? too much web surfing???)
One does not have to drive The KITT, one could just admire The KITT and be the envy of all his friends for possessing it.
April 3rd, 2007 at 9:25 am
I too though immediately of the Manolo. Say What is most correct. You do not need to drive the KITT. One could have deep, lengthy, intellectual conversations with the very refined KITT.
April 3rd, 2007 at 10:36 am
Couldn’t you find a sympathetic philanthropist who’d buy the car and let you display it properly in your living room?
April 3rd, 2007 at 11:17 am
AYYY! The Kassabian Motors is in my neighborhood! I could go over and take some pics for you, Manolo… ;)
April 3rd, 2007 at 12:25 pm
Oh, Manolo… the KITT; it is a shoe for the whole body!
April 3rd, 2007 at 3:03 pm
Does one need a license to drive K.I.T.T.? If memory serves, it sort of drives itself, doesn’t it?
April 3rd, 2007 at 4:22 pm
Dearest Manolo, I am an excellent driver and would be happy to volunteer my services as a part-time chauffeur (only part-time as my husband could not part with me full-time, I fear). However, as has been noted, the K.I.T.T. can drive itself.
Personally, I fear that soon the K.I.T.T. will be caught up in a bidding war between two fat German industrialists and a fat German princeling, and will soon depart these shores to be sequestered in some remote castle in the mountains of Bayern or the forests of Thueringen. (Of course, the K.I.T.T. will probably be able to engineer its escape, but that is another story . . .)
April 4th, 2007 at 6:00 am
Shoelover is only interested if the car comes with William Daniels built into the dashboard
April 4th, 2007 at 9:49 am
I reel in cognitive dissonance! The Manolo, man of refined tastes and style, cannot drive and longs for a black `82 Trans Am! I pictured the Manolo as the sort of man who drove a fine Maserati roadster. But yet, it is K.I.T.T. the super car of the alter ego of the Hoff! But it is still the black `82 Trans Am, the car of the rough, mechanically inclined boys in the shop classes! Ayyyyy!