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its been bugging me for a while now watching it on paytv again
when u watch certain stunts ie like in the ep forget me not, when kitt is flying down a hill with out brakes, you can clearly see kitts hood up. like its unlatched?? then on the next scene its down ..
any ideas why??

sorry if this has been asked before

australianknight

Seems to happen most when Kitt has some kind of impact. I've seen it pop open when kitt gets ramed from the side.

My guess would be that the Trans Ams hood latch isn't all that great at seems to pop open at any chance it gets.

I put this in another post somewhere but dont feel like looking for it. The hood on the car isn't open. Knight Rider used a special overlay body which covered the entire car except for the nose. The extra body was overlaid onto the car being used to protect the real body underneath. They mainly used this for scene where KITT is shot at so the bullet hits could be placed under this shell. They also used this for scene where kitt would be hit by another car or crashing through an object. (a wall of fence) again to protect the real cars body. This saved the studios alot of body work on the real cars. If you take a look at those scenes where the hood looks to be opened, also look at the big space on the top of the windsheild. Usually the side mirrors look like they are sagiing off as well. This shows where this extra body is actually on the car!

Yeah the front window always looks really obvious to me with that shell.... the window looks like its sunk right into the car.

I still don't know why I never noticed it as a kid way back when it first came out

Oh, good. I thought I was going crazy and that I was the only one who saw that, phew.

In addition to the hood, it often seems like the panels that cover the front turn signals sag in the middle.

Careful now, those blackout panels are already a matter of derision. Some KITT nose manufacturers leave them out.

^ Is there some sort of controversy about those blackout panels?

Not really. I personally think that if you are going to offer a product supposedly as being accurate to the original, then it should BE so. Some manufacturers just smooth over that area altogether. Slacko's.

Yeah but your a picky bugger! :p

That'll be because those blackouts only exist on the season 1-2 nose. The later season cars don't have them (except where they re-use old film footage)

Are we refering to these? If so, here is my nose...... I even went a step further and added inner turn signals to it.

Which is exactly the way it should be. What manufacturer made that, Knightdriver? I personally like to see more equal centre heights, right in the middle of the nose. As in the bottom lip is very similarly sized to the top section, but just a bit smaller. Shut up rockatteer

Aussieknight, The nose was manufactured by myself. I make my own KNIGHT parts. That was my original designed nose I did. My new one I am doing is a modified original studio nose that will have the same features only on a real KITT styled nose. I just havent completed it yet so no pictures are ready of it as of yet.

Well keeping that in mind, you've done a bloody good job! I'm just a picky bugger, as previously mentioned.

Join the crowd. I have been doing this for years and still dont have my car finished because things are just never close enough for me. LOL.

Next year maybe......

Are you building your own dash, too?

Yeah, I have alot of pic's on my site if you wanna check them out. There is alot of updating I need to do but haven't gotten to it yet. You can go either to my current projects page or the Knight Rider section to view the parts I have. Site link is below in my signature.

What I DO want is the cool KITT graphic on your page for my laptop. It'd look good as a status screen in a replica, no? I actually HAVE seen your page before (I just checked it). Very impressive stuff. A lot of guys (like me, for example) talk about it a lot, but never do it. Good to see someone doing it and showing us how.

LOL, That is originally what it was made for. I (along with MSKen) am working on a whole animated DVD for use in replica's. All those goodies you saw on the show will be reproduced as well as many new ones to play on your replica's monitors. He put it on my site, per my request, for something different looking for a main page.

Can I put my hand up for one now?

LOL. They are still in the works. I wanna have them ready for early next year. If all goes well that is.