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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 martin-boundary · · Score: 4, Funny

      Cylon Rider?
      Knight Cylon. They were going for the late night singles market.
  2. 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 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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.

  7. 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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  8. 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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  9. KITT, I need ya, buddy by Dachannien · · Score: 3, Funny

    I wonder if the micro jammer still works.

    On everything.

  10. 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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  11. 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?
  12. 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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  13. Re:Not fair by Billosaur · · Score: 5, Funny

    I thought there were two huge reasons myself...

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