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- Tue Apr 29, 2008 11:38 pm
- Forum: General Archive 2008
- Topic: When Knight Rider was cancelled in '86
- Replies: 18
- Views: 11757
Re: When Knight Rider was cancelled in '86
There's a reason that the "stock footage" was used for each transformation. They had to use 3 different cars. One regular car, one driveable car in the SPM configuration, and a transforming one. The transforming one had to have its engine and drivetrain removed to make room for the moving ...
- Thu Jul 19, 2007 5:22 pm
- Forum: General Archive 2007
- Topic: The official nit pick thread...talk about them, explain them
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5187
How does Karr get painted silver after crashing through the semi? I assume that karr forced Bonnie to do that after crashing into the semi!? It seems like a lot of stuff was cut out after karr crashed into the mobile command center. I mean you see karr crash in, the guy yanks the laser out of bonni...
- Wed Jul 18, 2007 6:12 pm
- Forum: General Archive 2007
- Topic: Gull-Wing Steering Wheel Illegal?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 12412
Uh...there may be isolated places here and there where the gullwing steering wheel is illegal...but it's not in most places. It's perfectly legal where I am (Ohio). I don't even know of any places that have any laws about what kind of steering wheel you can have. With regard to the scanner, it would...
- Thu Jul 05, 2007 8:07 pm
- Forum: General Archive 2007
- Topic: kitts front nose changes during the 3rd season??
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4586
- Fri Jun 22, 2007 8:45 pm
- Forum: General Archive 2007
- Topic: Junkyard dog
- Replies: 10
- Views: 11317
- Fri Jun 01, 2007 12:11 pm
- Forum: General Archive 2007
- Topic: Buildinng a functional K.I.T.T Replica
- Replies: 18
- Views: 12530
How would a turboshaft lift the car off the ground? Turboshaft engines produce almost no thrust, nearly all of the thrust is captured by the turbine to spin the shaft. The only concerns I'd have would be 1) torque...the car body would have to be greatly strengthened to avoid being twisted by the tor...
- Thu Mar 29, 2007 3:05 pm
- Forum: General Archive 2007
- Topic: The Ramjet
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6887
Actually, Chrysler put out several turbine-powered cars in the late 50's/early 60's. I think they were able to achieve 18mpg with a couple of them (actually not all that bad considering the time period...piston engines of the time weren't much more efficient). They overcame most of the turbine engin...
- Thu Mar 29, 2007 2:42 pm
- Forum: General Archive 2007
- Topic: Weinstein company to put Knight Rider into overdrive
- Replies: 240
- Views: 222675
This movie has been talked about for so long I've lost hope that anything will ever come of it. Sadly, I'm considering it vaporware until I can go to a theater and see it. It's gone through something like 3 revisions so far, with still no production work done at all, or actors even announced. At thi...
- Fri Mar 23, 2007 12:14 pm
- Forum: General Archive 2007
- Topic: The Ramjet
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6887
- Mon Mar 12, 2007 6:24 pm
- Forum: General Archive 2007
- Topic: Ski Mode??
- Replies: 26
- Views: 24405
A lot of the car jumps were real, especially in season 1. They used specially equipped stunt cars that were fitted with rubber shells/body panels that could be easily switched out. These stunt cars look *terrible* when seen up close, they are heavily modified to be able (to an extent) withstand jump...
- Mon Mar 12, 2007 6:10 pm
- Forum: General Archive 2007
- Topic: Looking for songs used in episodes
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5258
As far as I know, none of the original songs were actually used in the series. They're all covers. Some of them decent covers, some not so good, but none of them were the original artists. You can of course get all the songs used in the series, but they probably won't be the same versions used in th...
- Fri Feb 16, 2007 3:06 pm
- Forum: General Archive 2008
- Topic: Did Knight Rider Jump the Shark with SPM ??
- Replies: 40
- Views: 31404
- Tue Jan 02, 2007 3:55 pm
- Forum: General Archive 2007
- Topic: Knight Rider Motion Picture
- Replies: 22
- Views: 19439
- Tue Jan 02, 2007 3:45 pm
- Forum: General Archive 2007
- Topic: Knight Rider Motion Picture
- Replies: 22
- Views: 19439
- Tue Jul 11, 2006 10:00 am
- Forum: General Archive 2006
- Topic: Knightmares
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3838
Michael's Trans-Am WAS left in the desert, along with a body for the cops to find (I believe Wilton and Devon were talking about this in the pilot, about having to steal a body from the morgue so that the cops would think Michael was dead). KITT was not made from Michael's car...the only reason they...
- Fri Jul 07, 2006 11:20 am
- Forum: General Archive 2006
- Topic: Normal Cruise to Normal
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4918
They never really clarified in the show exactly what pursuit does. Pursuit doesn't make the car go any faster in and of itself...it merely allows manual control at higher speeds by having KITT assist the driver in controlling the car rather than controlling it completely (auto). In auto, there's no ...
- Mon Jul 03, 2006 12:04 pm
- Forum: General Archive 2006
- Topic: Michael Long - hood on Trans Am
- Replies: 31
- Views: 17668
on a slightly different note, does anyone know why they bothered giving Michael Long a black and gold T/A as his car at the beginning, considering it would have been cheaper to give him any other car???? (so the T/A could be used for stunts without having a new paint job....) or why not just use on...
- Thu Jun 29, 2006 11:33 am
- Forum: General Archive 2006
- Topic: A little math, a little "Brother's Keeper"
- Replies: 9
- Views: 6362
I think SPM gave KITT better acceleration at takeoff too. It took KITT a lot longer to get up to 300mph (though he did do it a couple of times) without SPM. One thing I don't understand though, is the whole bomb in the trunk that they did in several episodes. KITT didn't have any MBS or special prot...
- Thu Jun 29, 2006 11:29 am
- Forum: General Archive 2006
- Topic: my pick for KITT/new movie
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3349
Stuff like turbo boosts and jumps can be done with CG nowadays...that could make the car look like it's actually doing the impossible things that it did in the series, instead of using quickly changing camera angles. It's funny when you see the jump car nearly break in half when it lands, then after...
- Thu Jun 29, 2006 11:22 am
- Forum: General Archive 2006
- Topic: DH gets shot !!
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4737
They also intentionally made that scene very dark. I heard that they couldn't afford Larry Anderson anymore at that point, so they just had Hasselhoff film that particular scene. It's very obvious that Michael is played by two different people in the pilot though. Larry Anderson doesn't look or act ...
- Thu Jun 29, 2006 11:16 am
- Forum: General Archive 2006
- Topic: If KARR was made by Microsoft
- Replies: 25
- Views: 11789
- Tue Jun 27, 2006 6:10 pm
- Forum: General Archive 2006
- Topic: Michael Longs Trans am is Ready (Another Ertl Steel Update)
- Replies: 20
- Views: 18411
I used to think that Wilton took Michael's Trans Am and built KITT out of it...but actually not! KITT was already in the planning (and KARR had already been built out of a similar car). In one of the season 2 episodes (the one where Michael loses his memory and goes back to being Michael Long), Apri...
- Wed Jun 21, 2006 6:21 pm
- Forum: General Archive 2007
- Topic: Weinstein company to put Knight Rider into overdrive
- Replies: 240
- Views: 222675
I think they should make KITT a 2002 Trans Am (obviously with a different nose like they did with the 3rd gens in the series, so the scanner will look right). I like the idea of KARR being similar, but an older or possibly previous gen of the same thing. If in TDR they had made KARR an '81 TA (2nd g...
- Wed Jun 21, 2006 5:34 pm
- Forum: General Archive 2006
- Topic: Tape Player, TV. FLOPPY DISC DRIVE??
- Replies: 12
- Views: 8132
- Tue Jun 20, 2006 1:10 pm
- Forum: General Archive 2006
- Topic: A huge jump in The Topaz Connection!
- Replies: 15
- Views: 9547