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Knight Rider Car for Sale

Posted by samzenpus on from the I-work-for-the-knight-foundation dept.

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?

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  1. Don't do it! by ZaMoose · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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    1. Re:Don't do it! by afd8856 · · Score: 4, Funny

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

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    2. Re:Don't do it! by jimstapleton · · Score: 2, Funny

      Given that the original BSG was supposed to take place around the 1980s...

      Were they planning a merger series? Cylon Rider?

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    3. Re:Don't do it! by martin-boundary · · Score: 4, Funny

      Cylon Rider?
      Knight Cylon. They were going for the late night singles market.
  2. One car? by parasonic · · Score: 2, Informative

    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!

    1. Re:One car? by Scutter · · Score: 5, Informative

      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.

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  3. No David, and more caveats. by strredwolf · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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!

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    1. Re:No David, and more caveats. by BlueTrin · · Score: 3, Funny

      *Laughing my ass Hoff*

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    2. Re:No David, and more caveats. by Sqweegee · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Nothing prevents you from buying it and using it in another state or country where emissions aren't checked regularly.

    3. Re:No David, and more caveats. by DerekLyons · · Score: 2, Interesting

      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.

      Not quite correct. It's quite legal to drive cars of that vintage - so long as their original anti-pollution systems are intact. KITT's are not. (Which means it would not have been street legal even then.)
    4. Re:No David, and more caveats. by PPH · · Score: 3, Funny

      In the case of a Trans Am, I think they'll grandfather it in so long as the driver wears the required mullet.

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  4. Oh... Emm... Geee.... by porkThreeWays · · Score: 3, Funny

    I think I just got the biggest geek boner ever.

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    1. Re:Oh... Emm... Geee.... by Sazarac · · Score: 5, Funny

      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.

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  5. Bah get a replica instead for far less by Lumpy · · Score: 2, Informative

    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.

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    1. Re:Bah get a replica instead for far less by Rob+the+Bold · · Score: 4, Insightful

      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.

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  6. Buy it to shoot it. by 140Mandak262Jamuna · · Score: 3, Funny

    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.

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    1. Re:Buy it to shoot it. by LordSnooty · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Maybe this is a job for the smashmyipod crew - they've never failed to raise the funds yet...

    2. Re:Buy it to shoot it. by Ash-Fox · · Score: 2, Funny

      Sorry, I think only the smashmyps3 crew can afford it.

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  7. Re:DON'T BUY IT! by martin-boundary · · Score: 2, Informative

    Nope. Look again: the posting times are identical... Synchronicity! Synchronicity!

  8. Yes, ... by Ihlosi · · Score: 4, Funny
    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.

  9. I wonder by Capt+James+McCarthy · · Score: 4, Funny

    If KARR will buy it.

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    1. Re:I wonder by bytesex · · Score: 3, Funny

      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 !

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    2. Re:I wonder by $RANDOMLUSER · · Score: 3, Funny

      Actually, Lore bought KARR - one evil prototype to another.

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  10. Another Hollywood illusion shattered. by Rob+T+Firefly · · Score: 4, Funny

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

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  11. Re:Anyone seen the show lately? by Billosaur · · Score: 2, Informative

    Can't watch it anymore. It may have appealed to the teenage me, but now you just wince to see David Hasselhoff bantering with the car. Of course, mind you, the car was far more intelligent than Pamela Anderson...

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  12. KITT, I need ya, buddy by Dachannien · · Score: 3, Funny

    I wonder if the micro jammer still works.

    On everything.

  13. So... by Geekfather · · Score: 5, Funny

    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?

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  14. Re:Anyone seen the show lately? by denebian+devil · · Score: 2, Funny

    With the formulaic plots, cheesy dialog, and an endless supply of smug, I felt embarrassed by my early fanatical devotion.

    Stop making fun of House! That's one of my favorite...

    Oh. You were talking about Knight Rider. Never mind!
  15. No mention of its designer... by Mick+Ohrberg · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ...Jay Ohrberg, who also designed and/or built such notable vehicles as the original cruiser for RoboCop (not the spraypainted Taurus we now know), the 100' limo, the original Bat-mobile (designed by George Barris), the Pink Panther car, and a handful other more or less practical vehicles.

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  16. KITT through the ages by ettlz · · Score: 5, Funny
    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?
  17. that doesn't sound like a lot of money by Ace905 · · Score: 2, Funny

    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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  18. Re:Not fair by Billosaur · · Score: 5, Funny

    I thought there were two huge reasons myself...

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  19. Confused. by mattcasters · · Score: 2, Funny

    What a situation, loaded with mod points, but not sure at all how to moderate.
    Never happened to me before. It could go any way: Flamebait, Troll, Funny, Interesting, Overrated

    There should be a category for "WARNING: Contains link to pretty sad music video"

    Anyway, thanks for posting that link... I guess. I'm not touching your post with a 10-foot mod-pole.

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