80’s Flashback! This Knight Rider K.I.T.T. car has issues! What’s wrong with it? It's so REALISTIC!
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- Опубліковано 16 вер 2023
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Hi car wizard I'm the original owner of that kitt. the builder was Scott Benson. nice to see it in good hands. The door handle should work. I believe you have to deactivate the alarm button twice. The dash does a lot more but it's got a lot of buttons to figure out. I'm missing my baby already 😂
I miss that shine in my shop lol
My brother made a replica from a 1982 trans am. He had to sell it due to buying a house. Once he put it up for sale, it somehow got to David Hasselhoffs ex wife, Catherine Hickland. She came all the way across country to look at the car in person than a few weeks later, sent a carrier to pick it up. So the car that was in some of her videos, I actually rode around in with my brother.
Fun fact her husband she married after David was named Michael Knight. Totally unrelated but a funny little trivia tid bit.
@@ingresswizard9044that’s a funny coincidence or she has a kink.
Thats way too much of an "illuminati coincidence" @@ingresswizard9044
@@ingresswizard9044 she's working on having a new dash made for that car. A beautiful replica she has :)
Sounds like she was obsessed with Kitt and Knight Rider
Cant wait for Car Wizzard to get Airwolf into the shop.
Haha!!!! Yeeeeesssss!!!!
*gigglesnorts*
He isn’t A & P or IA
My God that would be rad. But only after the A team van. Lmao
Sadly it it was destroyed in europe after being converted to an ambulance. (Or was that just another disquise? The symbol was a wolf in sheeps' clothing, after all.)
Who else was about to pounce "Aha, NOT a canonical steering wheel, bad replica!"... and then Mrs. Wizard showed the other one in a seat 😅😊😂
Always loved Knight Rider. Watched it as a kid myself. Imagine ChatGPT running with the synthesized voice of William Daniels. Could probably run off your cellphone, piped in through Bluetooth speakers. Absolutely doable.
My Google assistant keeps on saying, sorry I don't understand🙄🙄🙄
I love how every button in the interior makes the DTMF touch-tone phone sounds. So high-tech!
I was looking for a comment about the dial tones. For some reason that made me laugh so hard😭😆🤣
Touch Tone came out in 1962; most people don't realize how old the system actually is. And yes, it's still used to this day. Dial the numbers on your smartphone and listen.
The KITT we built was built with screen-used parts from the show and cost $160,000. A lot of people need to learn about what screen accuracy is and such, but it's a great video! We also made molds of all our screen-used parts from the show. We own a ton of screen-used parts and toys from Knight Rider.
Loved the show as a kid, despite being born a decade after it ended. Gotta love early morning reruns
I had a night rider big wheel.
Didn't see it until my mid-20s. It's a cheesy, fun show.
@@Rekhan4242every show in the 80s was cheesy. Lol
Meh… I’d rather have a DeLorean with a Mr. Fusion and a Flux Capacitor.
@@craigcampbell1843 Your not wrong, I grew up watching MacGyver occasionally. I never watched it until I saw it on streaming like a year ago. Sometimes cheesy is nice, it has a certain mood that many movies and shows have forgotten.
I have a Kitt myself. It's an experience to drive.
I’m sure it gets so much attention!
I was 12 years old in 1982 when this show came out. It was *absolutely* my favorite show on TV at the time. I built a 1/24th scale model of K.I.T.T. back in the day. No clue what happened to it. Lost in a move somewhere, I'm sure.
I can't believe the detail in the interior of this replica! Wow!! Extremely well-done!! I would spend hours in there just messing around with all the buttons and lights, I'm sure. 😂
Knight Rider Historians has a screen used KITT and they found the original truck and trailer, which is currently under restoration. The strobe light came from the Cylons, from Glen A Larson's other TV show Battlestar Galactica. The strobe light in this instance was a scanner for KITT. Hopefully my comment doesn't get deleted again...
That is the BEST Car the Wizard has had in his shop!!!!!!
Someday, The Wizards will receive the real K.I.T.T. at their shop: some people speculate it does exists....
Nice KITT replica. Ironically, I recently binged watched all the episodes of Knight Rider a few months ago. Took me back to my childhood.
what streaming service has Knight Rider
Same here!
Because of KITT I bought a used 1983 Trans Am in 1989, my senior year of high school. I still own it and now I’m 52! My ‘bird and I go back longer than my wife and 3 kids.
This show came out right at the peak of the Dukes of Hazzard. For the earlier part of my childhood I was torn between old school muscle of a '69 Charger or new high tech design in the Trans Am. It was a great time to be a formative car enthusiast.
Kids today have no idea. Our generation and older were really the last ones who couldn't wait to start driving, desperately wanted to learn how to drive stick, and spend our summer days under the hood of a cool car. For me, by the time I was 12, I left the bike riding and football playing to all the other kids in the neighborhood. I wanted to just hang out at my uncle's shop to work on cars, run for parts with my Grandfather, and get to wrenchin on something.
Can't do that on some electric bathtub.
Remember the commercials for Knight Rider's pilot episode with KITT sitting in front and the fake General Lee (but with two zeros on the door) in the background? I think the tagline was "..and it will do more than jump puddles".
I got into The Fall Guy upon seeing Colt Seaver's truck doing a jump in the opening credits. Imagine watching it being disappointed that they didn't jump that truck in every episode 😂😂😂
@@nathanm8242 Yep Fall Guy, Knight Rider, The Dukes, Smokey and the Bandit, Starsky and Hutch….. between the mid 70s and mid 80s the car was the star lol
Same here. My brother and I could not wait to tear and engine down and put it back together. Both of us later became jacks of all trades around the house. Our dad was a self employed plumber who built his own house from the slab up and we grew up on a heated slab, which was great in winter. No heater motor, no feeling of air blowing around and very little dust in the house as a result. Men who could fix and repair and not be intimidated by a screwdriver.
I hear you, I am still working on old cars 😁😁
Ha - even tweaked the theme for this one, nice. Yeah, at almost 50, that show was a huge part of my childhood. When it came out, one thing younger folks might not realize is that the 1982 Firebird Trans Am, _especially_ tweaked for the KITT build, looked like *nothing* else on the road. That was a time that most cars were still very boxy. KITT looked like something out of the future, and with all that added stuff inside, yeah that was just so hi-tech looking. The company that did the conversion sure did an excellent job on it. I mean even that license plate trick; that was something the KITT in the series could do, so kudos to them for such attention to detail.
I remember when Knight Rider premiered and being blown away by how this car looked. It was a huge change from the previous model. It really did look like the future!
Knight Rider Historians UA-cam channel has Two real screen used Trans Ams and the Semi that you see Kitt drive in and out of.
Born in 80', Knight Rider was easily one of my favorite vehicular 80's action shows. I thought I was dreaming as a kid, when I got to sit inside and talk to KITT at Universal.
So lucky to have met the Hoff in 2010 in a bar and grill as he was about to shoot a scene for his reality show in Malibu. I approached him as he sat with his assistant in a closed bar area near the restrooms. I discretely whispered to him, "excuse me, but I'm a huge fan. I hope I'm not bothering you, but I was just wondering if it would be ok to take a picture with you if it's not too much trouble." He had his glasses on and was reading. He still paused for 3 more eternal seconds, then he turned with a big smile, got up, and said, "Sure absolutely, no trouble at all. My assistant can take it" He was very nice. Asked where we were from (omaha), He then exclaimed "Oh, Your Big Red! How Bout them Skers. I got family out near there". Unfortunately his thorny beoch assistant took the photo on a 1 count to 3 and refused to take another even though I was not ready., but Hoff was beaming with his arm around me looking surprised when I was actually saying OK to his asst when she snapped it.
Needless to say, Best decision I ever made. Later an old lady coworker told me she knew of someone who babysat Hoff's nieces and nephews.
This example is a particularly good replica. A quality dash and parts. Really nice
That tracer light is intersting in that it is a common feature across a couple of TV shows. The first place it was seen was in the original 1970s Battlestar Galactica show, the Cylon Warriors had that same type of light in the eyes of the their very highly polished suits. The next time it came up was with KITT (Knight Industries Two Thousand), in the "eye" of the car. How this happened is both shows were created by Glen A. Larson who did a number of very successful shows both in the SF Genre, Buck Rogers, and in more mundane realms with shows like Quincy MD, The Fall Guy and probably his best known show, Magnum PI.
KITT and the Cylons even used the same sound effect for the scanner light.
I'm a 38-year-old 'adult' man, but seeing this thing still fills me with childlike joy and so much want. This was the absolute be-all-end-all coolest car in existence and I wanted it. The General Lee in a close, solid second place.
Ah yes, happy days...
That theme music still gets me pumped... the show, to be honest, doesn't really stand the test of time. But the machines, well they certainly do.
There's a great YT channel where the guys tracked down the original truck and trailer. They were COMMITTED!!!
Loved watching this when I was young, brought back so many happy memories. The 80's were the best with Airwolf, Knight Rider, Blue Thunder and the A-Team
"Don't you love it when a plan comes together?"
It’d be cool to set up a backup camera feed and front camera feed to those screens in the interior!
Awesome! Just so viewers are aware, those seats in the car are not aftermarket... they're the stock 1982 Trans Am seats. 'PMD' stands for, Pontiac Motor Division. Also, the wheels and black hub caps are stock for the 1982 - 1983 Trans Am.
That looks like a nicely built replica! I would love to buy one that's already built, but it would have to be absolutely perfect. Hopefully the perfect one that I know about will come up for-sale again in the near future and I'll be in a position to purchase it.
Seats in early 80s TAs were recaro just like those. Hub caps are the bowling ball covers.
Dead on. Came here to say both those things. Seats and wheels. In ‘82 I was a sophomore and my best friend was a senior and he got a 82 TA for his graduation. Silver with black graphics. Man this car brings back memories.
Only bad thing was that engine still was a dog. The corvette had a 350 crossfire and it only put out 205hp. Supposedly easy to modify to nearly 300 but I’ve never seen one go like that. I think the 305 had 165hp.
Correct, the PMD seats and rims. The guy saying Recaro is thinking of the special edition 82' Recaro T/A. The show had hollowed out seat suit for a man to drive the car in the "drive itself" scenes.
Accurate name per GM, was Viscount seats...the KR community as a whole calls them PMD'S...
I worked for NBC from 1981 to 1986 as a lot jockey, all I did was drive cars from one set to the next, and I drove all 25 KITT cars. Yes they had 25 but only 23 were driven. The other 2 were used to show David, "Michael" talking to KITT. He could not talk and drive at the same time.
I know they had a bunch for the show but I had no idea they had *that* many!
What a dream job you had !!!!! Thanks for sharing !!!!
I need one of those license plate switchers for uhh....perfectly legal reasons.
Nice trip down memory lane! I loved the '80's music as well. It's a good thing the engine wasn't running when Mrs. Wizard hit the Turbo Boost button, or you'd have to patch a hole in your shop's wall 😀 I did get the notification from UA-cam for this video, but over the last couple months I've had to go into the settings for some other channels I'm subscribed to and re-enable the notifications as they got turned off. Gotta love website "updates" that break things that always used to work!
I particularly liked the programmed power off sequence...rather than just have everything go dead at once, adds "realism" 😊
Regarding the R4 AC compressor, there are some slick aftermarket scroll design compressors that have the same look as the R4 but not the same leak issues. It does not rely outer shell o-rings. I have seen a few retro fits and they work well and are quieter. look for UAC Scroll Compressor
Knight Rider was a huge thing back in the 80's here in Finland. Every kid watched the show, me included. Hasselhoff even visited here back then with KITT. An useless trivia: the TV series' Finnish name was "Ritari Ässä". Oh, well... those were the days... 😎
If I remember right from the show there was a small light bar acting as a scanner underneath the driver side door handle that was supposed to scan the prints on the finger tips of whoever was trying to open the door. If the prints didn’t belong to Michael Knight to driver’s door didn’t open. I don’t ever remember seeing it tried on the passenger door.
still love that show has it all on dvd cant be without it
My son is 3 years old and he loves KITT. I introduced him to knight rider and he's obsessed with it now 🙂
One small little issue. The side to side red light at the front is where KITT's sensors were.
I love this...im a follower of the knightrider historisns channel too, they own the real ones plus are restoring the real semi truck and trailer from the show
UP and Down buttons should be for the power wondows.
Those hubcaps came standard on the car they're not added for the show. Problem is is a lot of them left the chat because of the plastic not holding up.
Love this car though thank you car wizard.
That show was my childhood!!
You know you’re old when someone mentions David Hasselhoff and you automatically think of Knight Rider and not Baywatch!
This is pretty impressive, someone definitely put a lot of work into this and it looks great. Really cool.
i grew up watching Knight Rider but now as an adult i have to point out the lame turbo boost that made all think that turbo boost would make it jump but we all know now it doesnt make it jump but hey i still watch it any time i see it on TV like a little kid.
Cool. Reminds me of when l was a young kid. But, if money was no issue I'd want a Bell 222 turned into Airwolf.
Pretty amazing replica! Thanks for showing off this time capsule, Mr. and Mrs. Wizard! ✌️❤️🙂🇨🇦
The dashboard makes for a perfect second childhood car.
I LOVED watching this video. When Mrs. Wizard pushed THAT button and I heard that SOUND…
I felt SO MUCH JOY!!
THIS is one of the hit videos that is going to take you over the top!!
Thanks for making this one!
…that outro music sounds awesome btw! 👍 👍
Ahhh.... KITT... I remember being glued to the TV when Knight Rider came out. I was 18 then. It all seemed so possible at the time. Soon it will be. Thanks for sharing this one with us, and thank you to the owner for allowing it. 👋🤩
Not a big deal, but if anyone is interested... Those ARE actually the original seats used in early 3rd generation Firebird Trans Ams. PMD = Pontiac Motor Division
One of my earliest memories was being in Kindergarten and wishing KITT and Michael would pick me up to go on an adventure like the show.
I was obsessed with that car when I was a little turd.
Epic! Thank you so much for featuring this awesome car!
🫡 GREAT VIDEO WIZARD!! This was definitely one of my favorite childhood tv cars sitcoms growing up(Knight Rider)! Hopefully one day K.A.R.R. will pull up to the shop next...🫡
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Yes Sr. Wizard 🧙♂️ we love Night Rider back in the 80s. That car is super cool. And kitt he sure likes to talk.
Retro recipes has some great videos on his K.I.T.T car that he recently got and has be working on.
Super cool! Way better than I expected. Thanks for the video.
"I don't know why all the gripes"
It was pretty much the first electronic fuel injection system used by GM, and required some actual skill and thought to diagnose and repair things, which really upset mechanics used to working on carbs. Once you actually understand it, it's really simple. The single TBI version of the system was used on the Fiero Iron Duke 4 cylinder, and other GM vehicles of the time. A good scan tool like the Snap-On MT2500 makes diagnostics and repair of the system a breeze.
I was huge knight rider fan when i was a kid .born in 76 I loved all the car shows (dukes, a-team) nice video of the interior.
🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯every 80's kid dream car, one of mine anyways ..not a fan of the new intro music, but that not what im here for lol. love your channel, car wizard!
Thanks for showing that Kitt car. It was great to see it and how it was set up.
Thanks for a nice video. I have owned a 1982 Trans am since 1989 and the first thing I did was add the custom Kitt bumper ,scanner and driving lights.I do question this one as being a 1984,as the cross fire system was only available in the f-body Trans am and Z 28 Camero for the 1982 and 1983 model years. 1984 only offered the base lg4 carburetor 305 and the l69 h.o. carburetor 305 engine, the only cross fire engine in 1984 were on the all new c4 corvettes. A really nice part of this replica is the parallalla cloth on the viscount (pmd) seats.the aftermarket seat upholstery offered by all of the suppliers has an incorrect velour fabric with a color which is much too light. I am looking forward to seeing your progress with this project.
GREAT VID. NICE NEWER ENDING MUSIC. AND I MISSED THE INTRO BUT I CANT WAIT FOR THAT TO BE UPDATED BECAUSE YOUR MUCH BETTER THESE DAYS AND THE OLD INTRO SHOULD REFLECT THAT. SUPER GOOD.
SIGNED. JOE THE PROMOTER
dude u gave me flashbacks as soon as i saw the thumbnail. This was my Show! as a kid i loved it. rare good childhood memories :) awesome.
Thanks guys, I needed a laugh and this car is so very funny to me. And I did see an original show or two but I was a bit too old to really enjoy it. But looking back awesome. And Matt's Off Road Recovery has a "Kitt scanner" on a recovery vehicle. I love it.
We made that scanner for Matt ;) looks great on his ride
Matt's is barely visible, this one looks like the one in the TV show💯😁🙋🏼♂️
I really appreciate u guys taking the time to show up great cars and content. Thanks for great and informative videos. 👍💯🙂
Man i LOVE this car and the show! I think your "new" intro should stay for a while, that 80s synth touch is really cool!
The black wheel covers are factory items, you can still see the Pontiac arrowhead that has been painted over. The seats are factory Pontiac as well. PMD stands for Pontiac Motor Division.
That was an impressive walktru...never seen how that stuff really worked. I did see one at like a fair years ago but it was just a walk up and look type thing. I loved when it talked to you because that was new audio.
I think the determining difference is stock chassis or not. There are rwd drag cars that don’t have a stock chassis but are still road legal that have done over 250mph in a standing quarter. Roll racing cars are impressive for how fast they go while still maintaining so much of the stock car/chassis.
The Knight Rider Historians THANK YOU for making this video...very nicely done!!!
Love you brother man, watching you from the beginning keep up the good work!!
Been getting notifications. No problem. I love Knight Rider. This KITT replica is very authentic looking. Kudos to the owner of that car. The Tesla comparison is a little unfair. A Tesla will not leap fifty feet in the air. A Tesla will not have a conversation with you. Tesla "Full Self Driving" will NOT break you out of jail either.
Haha, his "friends/family" are telling on them self cuz YT stop sending notices on channels if you don't actually watch!
no tesla driver is as cool as the hoff!!!!
*giggles*
One of my favorite shows car's from my childhood 80s!!thanks for showing this is totally awesome.🇺🇸♥️💯
i remember hearing that pontiac donated all the trans am for the show but the deal was they HAD to be destroyed after the show was done for good..a guy that worked at the junkyard where they were crushed saved a bunch of parts before they went to the crusher...one of those front red LED lights went for big money...
That was because those cars were damaged during rail transport when the vehicle transporter railcars derailed. Because of that GM considered them not road-worthy and required their destruction. Not all of the cars used in the show were involved in the rail accident which is why some are still around.
I'm pretty sure they crashed a few during filming stunts.
Great job. More coupe content!! I’m restoring a coupe here in the US. Saw this coupe posted by the owner in the XJ Coupe group. Fining missing parts, and rust repair are my challenges.
Your voice is sorta like Pooh bear meets Kansas plains. It’s relaxing and a reason I keep watching for sure. Lol
dear mr and mrs wizard thanks so much for this video! ive always wondered what all those things actually did in the replica cars. i loved every minute as i do all your videos, but this one is special to me. thanks! I LOVE YOU!
Dave I never miss your or Mrs. W videos but I checked notifications and it was inactive!! (I had set it on) I just reset it!
I just discovered this channel. Good video! Congratulations
The voice of KITT (and your KITT) is William Daniels, star of stage and screen. He also played Mr. Feeny in Boy Meets World.
Hey Wizard & Mrs Wizard!!! Great video of a fun TV car!!! 👍👍🙂
It's amazing how cool the k.i.t.t.-Builds can be today. If something like this were available in the 80s, people would have thought it's the real thing
I'm in Australia. No problems here with receiving the notifications of new videos.
I preferred the intro music from before - the music from about two years ago.
This was my favourite show in the 80s. Thanks for sharing it.
Just a heads up, I had the crossfire many times. The spark knock you mentioned, I thought I had ended up being bent pushrods every time. The design of the intake manifold contributes to this. Just a heads up. Great vid. I enjoy the channel.
Due to leaky gaskets letting coolant get in? Oof
I love the "Turbo Boost" button and music!
I was incredibly bummed that the button played the theme and not the WHOOSH sound. When I'm driving and want to gun it, i want to push the button and hear the WHOOSH! Lol
I rarely get notifications from channels I subbed to and selected to see all notifications.
There are a few things that can be done with those radial compressors. Someone does or did make O-rings from a different material that seal better. There are a few other things that can be done to rebuild those compressors better. Another option is some engines can be swapped to the Frigidaire A6 compressor, just requires a bracket. For example I have done that swap on an Oldsmobile 350 diesel, using a compressor bracket off an Oldsmobile 350 gas V8. The A6 compressors never seen to have any kind of issues. Another thing that can be done is a swap to a Sanden/Zexel/Denso style compressor. Various companies make adapter brackets and kits with those and a compressor and line adapters. There are also 12v electric compressors now that are not too expensive and perform well, although you aren't going to run one on a stock 60 amp alternator, so you would want to upgrade to a CS130/CS144 to use one.
Absolutley bummed Wizzard did not fix it in the back of a moving Semi Truck....☹
This is awesome. I watched the show as a kid in the 80s. Only thing better would be the A-Team van. Put on the yolk wheel!
Top down solutions sells (and makes) head light actuator rebuild kits. The passenger window the outer window sweep is held on with several hex head screws the window will catch and eventually chip on it. Best is to replace with button head torx or Allen. (Have owned an 89 since 97 so I've rebuilt everything on that car)
The PMD seats are not aftermarket they were a GM option (now highly doubt that car was originally equipped with the PMD seats but it could have been)
If you convert to R134 the 91-92 condenser works better than the 82-90.
Also if putting on a lift the fender pinch weld is not a lift point.
I'm getting the notifications.
As to the car, I never watched the show. I like the way the '82 Trans Am looks, but the show was a turkey~
Great video!
This was my favorite tv show and i always wanted one of these
A possible modernization/upgrade for the R4 pancake compressor would be a Sanden unit, the 508 I think. There are conversion brackets available for pretty cheap, and you can either find a compressor that comes with a line kit or find an adapter plate that matches the original hoses.
Lookit Weeezard amping up the intro music! Nice selection guys.
So glad to have seen this video. Watched that show as a kid. I'd love to work on cars like that.
I remember in 1984 my mom took me and my brother to universal studios Hollywood and we got to sit in and talk to k.i.t.t to young me that was the coolest.
I think counting up is the default setting for that digital gauge up on the headliner. It can be programmed to do different things.
No that module is called the "count up" and that is all it does. Don't ask why.. is just how Paolo at Ideegeniali designed it
🥵 YES, I made sure the bell has double clicked and should be getting all notifications, but I haven’t received any notifications in almost 2 weeks. I have to go search for your channel. I hope you can find out why this is happening. Love the channel‼️
I haven't seen a notification for you in months wizard this is the first one I've seen in like six months
Wizard, Here in Detroit I'm still getting all notiifications. Great videos as always.
THANK YOU! Such a fun video.