NBC Knight Rider "Kitt" car giveaway Sweepstakes @More jump kitt game

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Check out NBC.com for all the info .
As for the New Ford  Kitt car time will tell
Classic Firebird fans enjoy the pic

[Just 6T9 CHGR]

If anything check out the preview party pics from the Playboy Mansion

[JimShine]

I would live to own a nice 1982 TA in black and tan. Its hard to find them in solid shape and still running.

[Mike DC]

 
I've thought about it too.


Jim, the truth is that we probably shouldn't wait much longer on buying a decent '77-84 Firebird if we're serious. 

Plenty of guys wanted a Charger throughout the 1980s but they "couldn't ever find a decent deal on a nice one."  Once a car's value has really past its lifetime low point, nobody gets rewarded by waiting anymore.   


I think about it with the same logic that the Charger situation went through --  Sooner or later it's wise to just pay up and get an unmolested original one with a very nice complete body and good fit/finsh.  Compromise on damaged/missing drivetrain parts if something has to give. 

[JimShine]

I have been thinking that way too. On top of the lowest value point, they have been routinely junked on a regular basis for a good decade now, so the population is going down as well.

[Chad L. Magee]

I would live to own a nice 1982 TA in black and tan. Its hard to find them in solid shape and still running.

I have the 83 Z-28 version of that car and I know where a mint black/tan 82 TA is sitting in Kansas (slowly getting the orginal owner to sell).......

[JR]

The 3rd gen TA has been my 2nd favorite car behind a Charger since I was a kid.

Maybe it was all those years of watching the Dukes and Knight Rider as a kid.


I've always wanted a black and gold Recaro T top 82 Trans am and have always liked them more than the smokey and the bandit one.

However an 82 is now 26 years old, and has a crappy 305 Crossfire engine and 82 model GM enginering inside.

The 87 and up GTAs are really nice, but don't appeal to me in the same way.  However the drivetrains are much better in the later years.

I have this itch in the back of my mind to get a 90-92 Formula, since it has no ground effects, and putting the 82 model bumper, lights, stripes, wheels etc. on it. The best of both worlds. The interior was better in the newer cars anyway.


This Recaro edition is an awesome looking car.

[Mike DC]

 
I don't think the sheetmetal itself changed from 1982 until the big 1993 restyle.  It was all changes in the urethane & fiberglass bolt-ons throughout the '80s.


The way to get one of these cars is probably to buy one with a wasted drivetrain.  GM smallblocks are dirt-cheap to replace, and the early '80s versions were slower than a modern 6-banger even when they worked right. 

     

[69charger2002]

you know what. cheesy and dumb as it was. i enjoyed it. and partly due to an 80's left over feeling. i kind of hope they make a series out of it
trav

[JimShine]

I enjoyed it too Travis. It was cheesy in just the right ways.

JR, I have been chewing on doing just what you are talking about. There is a black T-Top 1991 Formula nearby that I can get reasonable. There is also a rotted 82 nearby I thought about taking and doing a transplant of all the 82 items over on to make look like an older car. But if I went that far, I would probably end up doing a KITT clone. Which I am kind of nervous about getting into as I would only do one if I went all the way (big money).

[triple_green]

The first (and only) new car I ever bought was a black on black 82 firebird. V6 4-speed with the F41 suspension upgrade, t-tops  and the aero wheels. I had Herb Adams VSE spoilers on the front and back.

Kids used to follow me around and shout "Knight Rider". I guess it was preparing me for all the people who follow me around when I'm in the Charger.

3X

[Mike DC]

I don't think I would ever do a straight-accurate TV series KITT clone.  Maybe the exterior, but I wouldn't do the dash the same as TV. 


Too much of the 1980s tech stuff doesn't look high-tech anymore and/or would just be a pain in the butt.   

Whacking yourself in the knees with that butterfly-style steering wheel every time you change lanes isn't my idea of fun.  And KITT's voicebox thingy came off like it was pretty big when you watched the TV show, but it was really tiny on the dashboard in the actual prop-cars.  And I'd skip the glass TV set(s) on the dashboard in favor of LCD screens, etc. 

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And if I ever had a full-blown expensive KITT replica, then sooner or later I would start wanting to radio-control it from standing outside the car.  That would be a big difficult project. 

     

[PocketThunder]

And if I ever had a full-blown expensive KITT replica, then sooner or later I would start wanting to radio-control it from standing outside the car.  That would be a big difficult project. 

     

they do it on mythbusters all the time..

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Well the new made for tv movie didn't exactly meet my expectations.    At one time I thought there was going to be a "Real Movie" made guess not.
I like the old Knight Rider tv series and old Firebirds . When you consider the old 80's Trans Am factory speedometer tops off at 80 Mph and is pretty plain you can see how far advanced  the vintage kitt was verses a factory car. I wasn't impressed with the new "Kitt " or the new cast I think you could replace them all again get the same result  . Maybee if they  make a few changes here and there they'll have hit series 

[BrianShaughnessy]

Didn't watch but about 2 minutes of that movie the other night.    I used to watch Knight Rider back when occassionally.     Preferred DOH.

I  still got 2 black Birds at home... Here's the 89 although it's probably been posted before.   The other is a 90 GTA.   

[Mike DC]

 
Those are cool cars when they're in nice shape. 

I wouldn't dump Mopar amounts of money into one, but they seem like a very nice basis for a moderate-investment comfy road trip ride. 

American made, great looks & aerodynamics right from the factory, loads of aftermarket support, V8/rwd/EFI/overdrive platform, new enough that everything won't need to be redone from the ground up, etc.