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Take a stop motion precisely at 4:54. You KR historians say in another episode that this particular car made 41 jumps and many of them after this. But if you take a look at this precise frame, you will notice that not only the whole front structure is so bent the hood bent as well, you will also see that A pillars broke their correct angle to the roof and the roof itself broke. The amount of damage visible on the outside also makes me believe that suspension probably broke, destroyed and went through the mountings and through the floor. It is absoluely impossible to repair that sort of bodywork damage! In order to do that, you would have to completely replace the roof and the pillars, as well as everything except for main stringers of the chassis and you would then need to bend those stringers back to the original shape (making them weak), just to still have something from the original body, and then rebuild the body around them. The amount of work would defeat the purpose as you would need to replace 90% of inner and outer body elements and you would still come up with bodyshell weaker and more prone to damage than the original. This car was definitely totalled at very least on this jump and scrapped afterwards. It only happened that there were more cars with the same modifications configuration, but those definitely were different units. If there is any documentation saying this car existed after that, it then must be an error, or the documentation doesn't actually identify specific units. If you're absolutely sure that a car with a specific VIN number of this car here, was ever used afterwards, then I would say they just cut the VIN out of it and illegally put it on some of the trainwreck cars, or, there was some more out of registry cars delivered from Pontiac, or, there were complete bodies produced as spare parts, without their own VIN number and it was more cost efficient to have the stunt team build a stunt car from spares and give it a VIN of totalled unit, instead of buing a showroom T/A and then ripping the interior out.
@@piotrmalewski8178 We dont see any of the A-pillar and roof damage you speak of in that frame. This car was heavily reinforced and had a beefy roll cage in it. The factory roof was cut off and replaced with a flatter, steel plate...maybe that is what you are seeing.
@@KnightRiderHistoriansOfficial Possible, still unlikely the car survived this. You can clearly see the fenders and bonnet bent upwards. At a very least the car required a repair like after a heavy crash, both front and rear. Even if it was repairable, it must have been totalled, suffering severe structural damage to the chassis as even a rollcage connected to suspension mouniting points doesn't take the hits directly nor it transfers all of the forces. The mechanical parts must have been destroyed as well, maybe just the engine block survived.
@@piotrmalewski8178 in this video of the different cars jumped he said that he didn't know how many cars was the "Rollcage Acrylic Windowed Jump Car" but this car(s) made totally 41 jumps. So maybe they took a new trainwreck car after this to construct the new jump car.
Several times judging from the 45 mins I just watched of All General Lee Jumps 1979-2000. Them Duke Boys and them Knight Industries Boys seem to share lots of filming locations.
I recognize a ton of locations from those old episodes of both Knight Rider and Dukes. I lived in Oak Park for many years. A lot of the strip malls, intersections and gas stations have changed dramatically but the bones are still there. The entire Conejo Valley, Simi Valley and Moorpark area has a deeply rich history ofuse as film and television locations.
'Another fantastic vid' Joe. With such great investigative skills and attention to detail, you have all the necessary credentials to become an honourary memory of the Sherlock Holmes Fans club.
I always love your filming location videos. I actually have a deep fascination with street scenes and other locations over the past 50-60 years or so and how they have changed. This gives me lots of enjoyment as I see how creative you are when it comes to finding the exact spots that really cool stuff happened.
Love the dedication and passion you have for bringing us all this info on our favorite TV show. I wish I can go there to see some of the KR filming locations in a near future. Thanks Joe!
love this kind of location video's,great work ! would love to see the jump location where kitt jumps the santa clarita river ( season 1 ep 4),infact its the same location (indian dunes) where the general lee did jump the stix river ;-) curious how its looking now these days...
I remember an episode where kitt jumps over a orange "general lee", think it was in season 1, but i dont know know the location,i also know a chips episode was filmed in indian dunes, also they did a jump in the same location,
I would have loved to see if he could find remnants of the "road" Jack Gill said that they had to carve into the earth there leading up to the ramp in order to have a smooth enough surface to have enough speed to make the jump successfully.
Definitely a cool video its awesome the amount of effort you and your friends put into the Knight Rider history...much appreciated from a OG knight Rider fan!
Not saying you're wrong. The old tree next to the ravine is pretty convincing. However the hills in that spot don't look as accurate as the Lang ranch park location. So Im stll not completely convinced the Lang ranch park location isn't the real site of the jump, and that portion of the ravine is sadly filled in at the park. Wish I lived close enough to do some further investigation.
Hi Joe, I think your first hunch was the correct location and not the one in Gregs video as I'm convinced that KITT landed in Lang Ranch Neighborhood Park. The hill in the background matches up perfect and the ravine is still there in the trees, you can see the start of it at the junction of Lang Ranch Parkway and N Westlake Blvd. The bulldozed road leading down to the ramp was probably what is now the new housing development.
Always interesting to see how filming locations look like nowadays, about 40 or 50 years after shooting. Especially if they are from those great tv-shows from our childhood and teenage years back in the late 70s and 80s. So keep up this great work, and looking forward to see more filming locations.
I don't know really. The tree doesn't look the same, but maybe is also that old. The Lang Ranch Neighborhood Park you mentioned earlier should be the exact location. I was searching on Google Earth skipped to a historic picture of 7/18/1989. The place looks most similar to the ravine from the stunt scene. There's a lighter spot that could still be made by the bulldozer, then the path. Then comes the ravine and a larger tree on the other side of the open field where KITT hits the ground. 🤔
I also think the first place is the real place. The mountains fits perfect. In the Jump scene you can see a walking trail with a bench on the ramp side and than the bulldozer track. This can't be on this video of the wrong tree. Theres nothing on this side like this and the bulldozer slope is not there. And the parking place of the crew vehicles can't also be there but on the first location it can be. So the landing point should be somewhere where the playground is?
@@rangerearthgate1392 not exactly by the playground but I'm sure KITT is comming from somewhere from Espana Ln and the crew is parking maybe there where the Indiana Museum parking place is. Rivers often had trees on the side and when you follow the riverbed from Joevs final location to our, or his first location, it's possible that there is the ravine.
@@rangerearthgate1392 that was my first thought as well, that the mountain nearby fits perfect to the landing point. All other "landing points" are too far away and the angles would therefore be wrong in my opinion.
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He had a special bungee harness that held him in place. He talks about 8t in the video. That was why the leather jacket flew out the window. He couldn't wear it because of his safety harness so they basically cut the jacket and draped it around him. It fell off during the jump and was partially sucked out the open window.
I always love your filming locations video's Joe and thankyou for finally solving this mystery.I always wondered where that ravine was.I didn't know its in Thousand Oaks,California.Yet again you have surpassed yourselves. Thanking You Brian.
I looked at the location using Google Earth and I am reasonably sure that the jump had KITT land into the area which now is the park, the shape of the nowadays paved Lang Ranch Parkway seems to be a match the dirt road seen in the background on both the main shot and the crash cam shot.
The hill is way too close to the tree, on film, to be where they think it is. Even accounting for a long lens. The topography just doesnt line up. Those trees may all look the same, but i think the filming location is gone
@@XiaOmegaX the hill in the show is about 100 yards from the landing spot (given the size of the crew vehicles including the Ford Bronco that's parked very close to the landing spot). The park is a good match.
Please thank Greg Hackett for doing the video of the filming location for me.Really good of him to go out to Thousand Oaks and do the video for all us Knight Rider geeks to see.❤ Thanking You Brian
I can't help wondering if Greg got a good look at the area where the bulldozer cut the track for the run up to the take off. If it was later reinstated the foliage would look noticeably different, even years later, wouldn't it?
Better yet, looking at the satellite view, it appears as though the road made by the dozer is still there going straight down the hill from Autumn Ridge Trail to the ravine
Wow you did a full four minutes before rolling the credits. Reminds me of the Knight of the Drones episode. Except I didn't wrongly trust my mum to press record whilst I went to the toilet. Your grainy video footage looks a lot like mine did back then. The noise artefacts along the top edge of the screen are almost nostalgic. Perifractic will love it. I wonder if Scotch will honor their lifetime guarantee on that VHS tape? But would you want to ask and risk losing the tape to them? The most important function on Kitt is the Trunk Lid release button. Just because it's the easiest bit of 'make believe' that could be fitted to almost any car back then. - To my car in fact. (In the early 90s - when i was old enough to own cars). A 1987 Opel Manta 2 door coupe. I fitted a solenoid taken from a later Vauxhall Cavalier into the tailgate and mounted a red switch onto the lower dash.
Totally off topic but those tall cabinets in the background look very similar to 3 my parents had in the 80s, one of which I now own (my sisters and i split them and each took one). I can tell by the design at the top that they are probably from the same company yours are. Iirc my dad got them as a "bonus" from his work sometime in the mid 80s. Instead of cash bonuses, the company would give you a spending budget of $xxxx to order from a catalog. Those things are super heavy and sturdy. Definitely not partical board junk lol.
Nice video... remember the 80s film the wraith?? Some one did the filming locations on that film and went down where the 1st car came off found some items like a radio but couldn't say it was from that car
Love it. Wow. The only thing missing... is where was the "curved road" ... I think it's behind those trees, but is the hill still there, or is that where housing has been done? Are those houses on a hill.... do they know that KITT drove thrru their yards? OR was that area flatteded, for the housing. Is that hill on which KITT drove down toward the ramp, still there??
Love these vids. My goal is to eventually make it to where they dug KARR out on the beach as it was one of my favorite episodes when I was a kid. I know where that is thanks to this channel.
That's great. You know I accidentally found a street view of another Knight rider location too. During the whole first scene of trust doesn't rust when they are looking for KARR. Right before the buddy burger bit. I think it is. The way you know is because the Taco Bell in the background. It's still there same place. I feel old.. I first saw these on an old black and white my mom had bought at a pawn shop way back. Brand new.. crazy....
Awesome to know some filming locations still exist! I remember watching Knight Rider and Dukes of Hazzard at my Nan's on a Saturday evening and watching the A Team, The Fall Guy and even CHiPs at our family home on the odd late Saturday morning. Golden stuff! Greetings from the UK!
You 100% had it right the first time. I'm not sure why you then went to the back side of the neighborhood to look for the tree. The tree you found on Autumn Ridge Trail is not at all correct. That tree is a half mile from the jump. And nothing lines up from that tree. The ravine jump would be over 200 feet, not into an open field and then right back into another ravine. The tree itself doesn't match up in looks either. The one in the show is enormous. Ground to first branch looks to be more than 10 feet off the ground. The crew filming from a distance was near Oak Valley Ln and Olivegrove Pl looking towards Oakbrook Regional Park(Lang Ranch Neighborhood Park). There might have even been a bridge there then as there is now. It lines up perfectly. The "path" you're seeing in the background of the jump is now Lang Ranch Parkway. He jumps into what is now the park. He comes down the hill from Espana Ln. My speculation: If you look at the street view from Olivegrove Pl looking towards the park and follow Oak Valley Ln towards Lang Ranch Parkway there is a tree standing taller than the rest. That might be the witness tree. Things have grown up so much. It could be a tree elevated by a hill. I can't tell which side of the ravine is on. That said, It doesn't appear they would have needed to cut it down as it's not on the side with the houses, it's on the park side.
i was actually thinking of KITT having an identity that can talk and interact... Also the sound of KITT's voice, its so friendly and comferting in tone.. But ok i agree, partially, that Turbo Boost is the number one.. Let me refrase,, a shared number one 🥰
Do you know the orginal location of where David Hasselhoff told tv producers "No way am I appearing in that crap" when they were pitching Team Knight rider.
Heh… it’s funny, “ravine” stopped sounding like a real word to me by the end 😅 absolutely love the slow burn walk thru of the entire process of figuring it out 👍🏻
Do you mean to tell me that KITT could not do a turbo boost without a ramp in place? Thanks for ruining my childhood. Ha ha ha. So cool you found this location. Thanks for sharing with this with us.
It still puzzles me to this day when Michael says to KITT “Hit it” or the like & then we see his finger push the turbo boost button. Why tell KITT to “hit it” if you’re just going to do it manually 😝
It would be good if you could do another one for the last car chase scene in general for Topaz Connection to see all the bends K.I.T.T. was tearing around chasing the SUV before the jump.
I really like your episode this time about the jump there was a little rumour that Michael did his own job once because the Stutman didn’t show up through a bunch of glass is that really true or false
Location 1 is definitely the spot. The tree is no longer there. Everything matches up exactly. The ravine is hidden in the trees on the back side of the park.
@7:03 - I don't know the context of this episode, but are the cars in the background supposed to be there? Are they the stunt and camera crew parked for the gig?
It always looked to me that when K.I.T.T. landed in this turbo boost shot that the right front wheel and tire are gone INSTANTLY. Since there's no mention of them falling off the car I'm assuming that they were shoved up into the engine compartment. Any thoughts?
While the turbo boost was an awesome feature KITT had, I prefer to think his best feature was the impregnable coating he had. Go fast enough over bumps and any car can get air, of course with damage, but KITT was bulletproof. The windows too.
I would take a metal detector and spade and try and find the things that flew off KITT. Who knows if someone found them they would be worth a lot of money by now once authenticity has been proven. That would be awesome Joe.
I realize I'm not the first to post this, but you could do a video of you and maybe a partner metal detecting looking for the license plate that fell off. Granted it's a long shot, but you never know.
Was there ever any sort of explanation about the reasoning behind calling the function "turbo boost"? In-universe KITT is actually powered by a gas turbine/turboshaft engine, hence the smooth noise it makes when driving, quite unlike a normal car engine. The dash has a couple of displays that go with it, including "inlet temp", "free turbine" and "kRPM" - kRPM suggests the revs go up to 80,000RPM. I am guessing turbo boost would be some sort of afterburner-like function that would make the turbine directly produce thrust independent from wheels - there is an obvious issue with this, that KITT doesn't have a jet exhaust (except in super-pursuit mode), but otherwise it somewhat makes sense. So why call it a turbo boost instead of afterburner or something? Is it just, because someone thought turbo boost is going to sound cool on camera? I guess it very well might have been.
sorry, but not conviced. If you try to replicate the camera angle, the hills in the background don't line up. Also, the terrain left of the tree is rising, while in the scene it's way more flat and there's more space for KITT to land, while if the spot is where you're claiming, KITT would have nose dived right into that hill. There's zero space for the landing. Also, the terrain on the other side of the ravine is sloping. The background seen from the neighborhood park is a 100% match and if you look at historic aerials, you can see that the ravine continued (and still does) behind the park in 1980/85. The tree bears a striking resemblance but to me this clearly isn't the spot. When KITT lands, you can actually see two paths, one right at the foot of the hill and one closer to KITT. These two lines are visible on historicaerials where the park is today. By carefully studying the aerials, I think I can pinpoint exactly where this was filmed, namely on the east end of the neighborhood park. You can even faintly make out the 'road' that was bulldozed for the filming in the 1985 aerial.
Exactly. That spot that Greg was at IMO is not the right one and not the correct tree. There is even a dead tree behind Greg that would have been closer to jump landing spot and its not in the jump scene. I am sure it’s within a few hundred yards, but that ain’t it.
@@RedcastleGAV78 I did my own thorough analysis and sent it to KRH. I'm pretty sure I've nailed the exact spot. It's slightly east of the neighborhood park, where the creek takes a sharp bend. The scenery and everything lines up with the sceenshots. The ravine is still there, running just North of the park. It's just completely overgrown. 1980 and '85 aerials are available on historicaerials. In the '85 one you can even faintly make out the remnants of the bulldozed track and other details that fully match the scene.
@@thomasseifert910 hey man. I have just done the exact same thing without even seeing your response and you have it dead on correct. You even see the two paths/roads running left to right to the bottom of that hill too on the aerial photos in 1985. And yes just now I see the faint bulldozed track. 👍
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Hi there, check my comment, I think that is not the jump place. Cheers!
Take a stop motion precisely at 4:54. You KR historians say in another episode that this particular car made 41 jumps and many of them after this. But if you take a look at this precise frame, you will notice that not only the whole front structure is so bent the hood bent as well, you will also see that A pillars broke their correct angle to the roof and the roof itself broke. The amount of damage visible on the outside also makes me believe that suspension probably broke, destroyed and went through the mountings and through the floor.
It is absoluely impossible to repair that sort of bodywork damage! In order to do that, you would have to completely replace the roof and the pillars, as well as everything except for main stringers of the chassis and you would then need to bend those stringers back to the original shape (making them weak), just to still have something from the original body, and then rebuild the body around them.
The amount of work would defeat the purpose as you would need to replace 90% of inner and outer body elements and you would still come up with bodyshell weaker and more prone to damage than the original.
This car was definitely totalled at very least on this jump and scrapped afterwards. It only happened that there were more cars with the same modifications configuration, but those definitely were different units. If there is any documentation saying this car existed after that, it then must be an error, or the documentation doesn't actually identify specific units.
If you're absolutely sure that a car with a specific VIN number of this car here, was ever used afterwards, then I would say they just cut the VIN out of it and illegally put it on some of the trainwreck cars, or, there was some more out of registry cars delivered from Pontiac, or, there were complete bodies produced as spare parts, without their own VIN number and it was more cost efficient to have the stunt team build a stunt car from spares and give it a VIN of totalled unit, instead of buing a showroom T/A and then ripping the interior out.
@@piotrmalewski8178 We dont see any of the A-pillar and roof damage you speak of in that frame. This car was heavily reinforced and had a beefy roll cage in it. The factory roof was cut off and replaced with a flatter, steel plate...maybe that is what you are seeing.
@@KnightRiderHistoriansOfficial Possible, still unlikely the car survived this. You can clearly see the fenders and bonnet bent upwards. At a very least the car required a repair like after a heavy crash, both front and rear. Even if it was repairable, it must have been totalled, suffering severe structural damage to the chassis as even a rollcage connected to suspension mouniting points doesn't take the hits directly nor it transfers all of the forces. The mechanical parts must have been destroyed as well, maybe just the engine block survived.
@@piotrmalewski8178 in this video of the different cars jumped he said that he didn't know how many cars was the "Rollcage Acrylic Windowed Jump Car" but this car(s) made totally 41 jumps. So maybe they took a new trainwreck car after this to construct the new jump car.
23:40 imagine for a minute metal detecting that area and finding stuff, especially that license plate! wow
I imagine there will be a line of people with metal detectors in a couple of hours 💯
If somebody arrives with a tow truck you know they are unbelievably optimistic.
Sad he didn't do a shot view of the camera location. I imagine that even today that jump could be done clearing the houses ..
That location was also used in Dukes of Hazzard.
They jumped General Lee across it
Do you know the episode?
@@KnightRiderHistoriansOfficial season 3 episode 3
Theres a short clip that shows it
Several times judging from the 45 mins I just watched of All General Lee Jumps 1979-2000.
Them Duke Boys and them Knight Industries Boys seem to share lots of filming locations.
I recognize a ton of locations from those old episodes of both Knight Rider and Dukes. I lived in Oak Park for many years. A lot of the strip malls, intersections and gas stations have changed dramatically but the bones are still there.
The entire Conejo Valley, Simi Valley and Moorpark area has a deeply rich history ofuse as film and television locations.
'Another fantastic vid' Joe. With such great investigative skills and attention to detail, you have all the necessary credentials to become an honourary memory of the Sherlock Holmes Fans club.
Just the fact that yall deal with only Knight Rider is the reason i subbed even without watching the video yet
Great find guys! Just watched "The Topaz Connection" a couple days ago. My favorite Turbo Boost jump and one of my favorite episodes. 👍
I always love your filming location videos. I actually have a deep fascination with street scenes and other locations over the past 50-60 years or so and how they have changed. This gives me lots of enjoyment as I see how creative you are when it comes to finding the exact spots that really cool stuff happened.
That was a super cool investigation...crazy how much stuff changes and yet other stuff remains the same.
Love the dedication and passion you have for bringing us all this info on our favorite TV show. I wish I can go there to see some of the KR filming locations in a near future. Thanks Joe!
Loved this! Thank you very much! My number one request for filming location analysis would be: Sepulveda Dam.
Wow, very cool location find! Nice to see how it looks today :) Big turboboost scene, awesome stunt!
Very cool video..
Do you happen to know the location where KITT & Goliath crashed, sure I know they used a model, but be cool to hear about it..
Thank you, Joe and the guys, for this amazing restoration of The Ravine Jump! A really nice piece of locationing!
That's amazing. And to have someone able to go on site shows what a great community you've built.
Pretty interesting analysis!! Glad that the original tree still standing as a memory of my/our childhood!!!!❤ really love it fella.... keep it up!🙏🏾
love this kind of location video's,great work ! would love to see the jump location where kitt jumps the santa clarita river ( season 1 ep 4),infact its the same location (indian dunes) where the general lee did jump the stix river ;-) curious how its looking now these days...
I was wondering if any of the jump locations were used by both shows. Some of them certainly favor each other.
I remember an episode where kitt jumps over a orange "general lee", think it was in season 1, but i dont know know the location,i also know a chips episode was filmed in indian dunes, also they did a jump in the same location,
I would have loved to see if he could find remnants of the "road" Jack Gill said that they had to carve into the earth there leading up to the ramp in order to have a smooth enough surface to have enough speed to make the jump successfully.
Definitely a cool video its awesome the amount of effort you and your friends put into the Knight Rider history...much appreciated from a OG knight Rider fan!
Not saying you're wrong.
The old tree next to the ravine is pretty convincing. However the hills in that spot don't look as accurate as the Lang ranch park location.
So Im stll not completely convinced the Lang ranch park location isn't the real site of the jump, and that portion of the ravine is sadly filled in at the park. Wish I lived close enough to do some further investigation.
Hi Joe,
I think your first hunch was the correct location and not the one in Gregs video as I'm convinced that KITT landed in Lang Ranch Neighborhood Park.
The hill in the background matches up perfect and the ravine is still there in the trees, you can see the start of it at the junction of Lang Ranch Parkway and N Westlake Blvd.
The bulldozed road leading down to the ramp was probably what is now the new housing development.
FYI, this is the same location where the barn with Green Acres on it from the opening of Green Acres was located, no longer standing.
Always interesting to see how filming locations look like nowadays, about 40 or 50 years after shooting. Especially if they are from those great tv-shows from our childhood and teenage years back in the late 70s and 80s. So keep up this great work, and looking forward to see more filming locations.
7:03 in addition to the cable hanging out of the wheel well, a lot of the crew vehicles in the background.
Great video as always. So much time and effort spent finding these locations.
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Amazing you guys found that ravine and tree. Not related comment, there is something about Season 1 & early Season 2 music using actual instrumentals.
I don't know really. The tree doesn't look the same, but maybe is also that old. The Lang Ranch Neighborhood Park you mentioned earlier should be the exact location. I was searching on Google Earth skipped to a historic picture of 7/18/1989. The place looks most similar to the ravine from the stunt scene. There's a lighter spot that could still be made by the bulldozer, then the path. Then comes the ravine and a larger tree on the other side of the open field where KITT hits the ground. 🤔
I also think the first place is the real place. The mountains fits perfect. In the Jump scene you can see a walking trail with a bench on the ramp side and than the bulldozer track. This can't be on this video of the wrong tree. Theres nothing on this side like this and the bulldozer slope is not there. And the parking place of the crew vehicles can't also be there but on the first location it can be. So the landing point should be somewhere where the playground is?
@@rangerearthgate1392 not exactly by the playground but I'm sure KITT is comming from somewhere from Espana Ln and the crew is parking maybe there where the Indiana Museum parking place is. Rivers often had trees on the side and when you follow the riverbed from Joevs final location to our, or his first location, it's possible that there is the ravine.
@@rangerearthgate1392 that was my first thought as well, that the mountain nearby fits perfect to the landing point. All other "landing points" are too far away and the angles would therefore be wrong in my opinion.
It's defiantly the first area going by the hills in the back ground
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Hi Joe and Kitt and Jack nice video 📹 is there a white out on Kitts strobe light ! 😊
Great video Joe and AJ!!
I am surprised the driver did not break several bones doing it. The landing looks brutal!
He had a special bungee harness that held him in place. He talks about 8t in the video. That was why the leather jacket flew out the window. He couldn't wear it because of his safety harness so they basically cut the jacket and draped it around him. It fell off during the jump and was partially sucked out the open window.
I always love your filming locations video's Joe and thankyou for finally solving this mystery.I always wondered where that ravine was.I didn't know its in Thousand Oaks,California.Yet again you have surpassed yourselves.
Thanking You
Brian.
Great video thanks
I looked at the location using Google Earth and I am reasonably sure that the jump had KITT land into the area which now is the park, the shape of the nowadays paved Lang Ranch Parkway seems to be a match the dirt road seen in the background on both the main shot and the crash cam shot.
The hill is way too close to the tree, on film, to be where they think it is. Even accounting for a long lens. The topography just doesnt line up. Those trees may all look the same, but i think the filming location is gone
@@XiaOmegaX the hill in the show is about 100 yards from the landing spot (given the size of the crew vehicles including the Ford Bronco that's parked very close to the landing spot). The park is a good match.
Please thank Greg Hackett for doing the video of the filming location for me.Really good of him to go out to Thousand Oaks and do the video for all us Knight Rider geeks to see.❤
Thanking You
Brian
I can't help wondering if Greg got a good look at the area where the bulldozer cut the track for the run up to the take off. If it was later reinstated the foliage would look noticeably different, even years later, wouldn't it?
at 7:03 the filming crew is visible,I guess it is the filming crew.Great video.
Hey Joe I’m in Thousand Oaks and I’ll be up in that filming location later this afternoon.
Great work as always! I’ve always been curious about the apartment complex in Halloween Knight. Tried Google Maps but couldn’t figure it out.
Better yet, looking at the satellite view, it appears as though the road made by the dozer is still there going straight down the hill from Autumn Ridge Trail to the ravine
Wow you did a full four minutes before rolling the credits. Reminds me of the Knight of the Drones episode. Except I didn't wrongly trust my mum to press record whilst I went to the toilet.
Your grainy video footage looks a lot like mine did back then. The noise artefacts along the top edge of the screen are almost nostalgic. Perifractic will love it.
I wonder if Scotch will honor their lifetime guarantee on that VHS tape?
But would you want to ask and risk losing the tape to them?
The most important function on Kitt is the Trunk Lid release button. Just because it's the easiest bit of 'make believe' that could be fitted to almost any car back then. - To my car in fact. (In the early 90s - when i was old enough to own cars).
A 1987 Opel Manta 2 door coupe. I fitted a solenoid taken from a later Vauxhall Cavalier into the tailgate and mounted a red switch onto the lower dash.
Totally off topic but those tall cabinets in the background look very similar to 3 my parents had in the 80s, one of which I now own (my sisters and i split them and each took one). I can tell by the design at the top that they are probably from the same company yours are. Iirc my dad got them as a "bonus" from his work sometime in the mid 80s. Instead of cash bonuses, the company would give you a spending budget of $xxxx to order from a catalog. Those things are super heavy and sturdy. Definitely not partical board junk lol.
Should have shown tree from approximate location of the film camera from show.
I love how Michael remembers the turbo boost in the third person view. After all, he was in KITT at the time!
Nice video... remember the 80s film the wraith??
Some one did the filming locations on that film and went down where the 1st car came off found some items like a radio but couldn't say it was from that car
Love it. Wow. The only thing missing... is where was the "curved road" ... I think it's behind those trees, but is the hill still there, or is that where housing has been done? Are those houses on a hill.... do they know that KITT drove thrru their yards? OR was that area flatteded, for the housing.
Is that hill on which KITT drove down toward the ramp, still there??
Sure would have been nice if he had lined up the same shot as from the show while he was there.
Yeh I was waiting for the money shot but it never came.
@@martinfreekie7659 as others have mentioned, I don’t think this is the right spot.
Love these vids. My goal is to eventually make it to where they dug KARR out on the beach as it was one of my favorite episodes when I was a kid. I know where that is thanks to this channel.
That's great. You know I accidentally found a street view of another Knight rider location too. During the whole first scene of trust doesn't rust when they are looking for KARR. Right before the buddy burger bit. I think it is. The way you know is because the Taco Bell in the background. It's still there same place. I feel old.. I first saw these on an old black and white my mom had bought at a pawn shop way back. Brand new.. crazy....
Awesome to know some filming locations still exist! I remember watching Knight Rider and Dukes of Hazzard at my Nan's on a Saturday evening and watching the A Team, The Fall Guy and even CHiPs at our family home on the odd late Saturday morning. Golden stuff!
Greetings from the UK!
You 100% had it right the first time. I'm not sure why you then went to the back side of the neighborhood to look for the tree.
The tree you found on Autumn Ridge Trail is not at all correct. That tree is a half mile from the jump. And nothing lines up from that tree. The ravine jump would be over 200 feet, not into an open field and then right back into another ravine. The tree itself doesn't match up in looks either. The one in the show is enormous. Ground to first branch looks to be more than 10 feet off the ground.
The crew filming from a distance was near Oak Valley Ln and Olivegrove Pl looking towards Oakbrook Regional Park(Lang Ranch Neighborhood Park). There might have even been a bridge there then as there is now. It lines up perfectly. The "path" you're seeing in the background of the jump is now Lang Ranch Parkway. He jumps into what is now the park. He comes down the hill from Espana Ln.
My speculation: If you look at the street view from Olivegrove Pl looking towards the park and follow Oak Valley Ln towards Lang Ranch Parkway there is a tree standing taller than the rest. That might be the witness tree. Things have grown up so much. It could be a tree elevated by a hill. I can't tell which side of the ravine is on. That said, It doesn't appear they would have needed to cut it down as it's not on the side with the houses, it's on the park side.
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i was actually thinking of KITT having an identity that can talk and interact... Also the sound of KITT's voice, its so friendly and comferting in tone..
But ok i agree, partially, that Turbo Boost is the number one.. Let me refrase,, a shared number one 🥰
How does he know I'm on my phone sitting on the toilet? You got cameras in here Knight Rider historians?
Sure do. Next time wash your hands.
#2.
Making coffee.
On my couch.
In bed before sleep.
Lunchtime at work.
There is a lake KITT dives by at the start of The Final Verdict. I have always wondered where it was located.
Do you know the orginal location of where David Hasselhoff told tv producers "No way am I appearing in that crap" when they were pitching Team Knight rider.
Ooh that's cheeky.
Do you know the original location of NBC producers jaws when they saw the cost of the SPM cars? 😮
I’ve seen all 22 episodes of Team Knight Rider. It is good.
That was a awesome video Joe
And yet they were able to get him for “Knight Rider 2000” & the 2008 reboot
Heh… it’s funny, “ravine” stopped sounding like a real word to me by the end 😅 absolutely love the slow burn walk thru of the entire process of figuring it out 👍🏻
Do you mean to tell me that KITT could not do a turbo boost without a ramp in place? Thanks for ruining my childhood. Ha ha ha. So cool you found this location. Thanks for sharing with this with us.
It still puzzles me to this day when Michael says to KITT “Hit it” or the like & then we see his finger push the turbo boost button. Why tell KITT to “hit it” if you’re just going to do it manually 😝
I think 'Hit it' refers to the desired speed for a Turbo boost and is asking K.I.T.T. to obtain that velocity.
Any sign of the bulldozed road left?
I was just thinking that they should add this feature to the Batmobile.
It would be good if you could do another one for the last car chase scene in general for Topaz Connection to see all the bends K.I.T.T. was tearing around chasing the SUV before the jump.
Loved this, very interesting
My favorite feature besides turbo boost. I’d have to say is. Super pursuit mode 5:54
The cash dispenser from Knight by nose
Very cool!!
Awesome! Go find that license plate and other possible gold nuggets that flew off KITT! Man, if I was there, I'd be there searching and digging!
Oh that is cool, Need coords, Id add that to my places to see.
Is that the same ravine used in Dukes of Hazzard?
Would be a helluva find if that turn signal blackout is still in the ravine somewhere!
Was that site ever used for jumps on Dukes Of Hazzard too??
I really like your episode this time about the jump there was a little rumour that Michael did his own job once because the Stutman didn’t show up through a bunch of glass is that really true or false
Looks like in the shot of the landing you can see crew vehicles off to the left.
Hi. Any idea where the Knight Rider closing scene was filmed at the end of every episode in season 1? He’s driving on a highway into the desert. TIA
12:53 another goof: you can clearly see the production vehicles at the end of the landing area ;)
Edit: which you mention 2 minutes later... Haha 😅
Location 1 is definitely the spot. The tree is no longer there. Everything matches up exactly. The ravine is hidden in the trees on the back side of the park.
i wonder if many camera, light, etc in the edge of frame cases were discarded because tv/crt just don't show them
@7:03 - I don't know the context of this episode, but are the cars in the background supposed to be there? Are they the stunt and camera crew parked for the gig?
At 18:26 you are indeed virtually driving-a bike or ATV (with a camera on a short stalk on your helmet). 🤓
It always looked to me that when K.I.T.T. landed in this turbo boost shot that the right front wheel and tire are gone INSTANTLY. Since there's no mention of them falling off the car I'm assuming that they were shoved up into the engine compartment. Any thoughts?
An amazing jump 👍
was the dukes of hazzards filmed there too for a jump?
Think it is.
where is the road leading to the ramp?
But do remains of the bulldozed path exist?
Can you imagine if you could find the turn signal cover in the muck down there
Was there an episode that the General Lee was in Knight Rider?
It kind of looked that way in your clip, but no confederate flag or 01 on the door
While the turbo boost was an awesome feature KITT had, I prefer to think his best feature was the impregnable coating he had. Go fast enough over bumps and any car can get air, of course with damage, but KITT was bulletproof. The windows too.
At 18:28 you’re pointing to the wrong tree on the present day google earth trail view
Don’t forget the crew and vehicles at 7:11 😊
I would take a metal detector and spade and try and find the things that flew off KITT. Who knows if someone found them they would be worth a lot of money by now once authenticity has been proven.
That would be
awesome Joe.
I realize I'm not the first to post this, but you could do a video of you and maybe a partner metal detecting looking for the license plate that fell off.
Granted it's a long shot, but you never know.
Was there ever any sort of explanation about the reasoning behind calling the function "turbo boost"? In-universe KITT is actually powered by a gas turbine/turboshaft engine, hence the smooth noise it makes when driving, quite unlike a normal car engine. The dash has a couple of displays that go with it, including "inlet temp", "free turbine" and "kRPM" - kRPM suggests the revs go up to 80,000RPM. I am guessing turbo boost would be some sort of afterburner-like function that would make the turbine directly produce thrust independent from wheels - there is an obvious issue with this, that KITT doesn't have a jet exhaust (except in super-pursuit mode), but otherwise it somewhat makes sense. So why call it a turbo boost instead of afterburner or something? Is it just, because someone thought turbo boost is going to sound cool on camera? I guess it very well might have been.
Rumour has it the tree still has Michael Knight's jacket.
I recall at least one time early in the show when turbo boost was used for an increase in speed, not to jump. Anyone remember that?
Turbo Boost and Micro Jam :)
I believe that the place had already been identified and marked by historians of The Dukes of Hazzard,
as it is also the location of GL jumps.
Filmed at Valencia Oaks Movie Ranch in California after season 1
I thought you might show the hill that was plowed to get a run up on the ramp. I didn't see any hill in your modern video.
Joe, i think they used this location in the dukes of hazard, iam not totally sure though.
It does look like it. I think they filmed at least one of the General's jumping, and a few of the sheriff car jumps.
Whose on the Google maps at 12 mins in?
sorry, but not conviced. If you try to replicate the camera angle, the hills in the background don't line up. Also, the terrain left of the tree is rising, while in the scene it's way more flat and there's more space for KITT to land, while if the spot is where you're claiming, KITT would have nose dived right into that hill. There's zero space for the landing. Also, the terrain on the other side of the ravine is sloping. The background seen from the neighborhood park is a 100% match and if you look at historic aerials, you can see that the ravine continued (and still does) behind the park in 1980/85. The tree bears a striking resemblance but to me this clearly isn't the spot. When KITT lands, you can actually see two paths, one right at the foot of the hill and one closer to KITT. These two lines are visible on historicaerials where the park is today. By carefully studying the aerials, I think I can pinpoint exactly where this was filmed, namely on the east end of the neighborhood park. You can even faintly make out the 'road' that was bulldozed for the filming in the 1985 aerial.
Exactly. That spot that Greg was at IMO is not the right one and not the correct tree. There is even a dead tree behind Greg that would have been closer to jump landing spot and its not in the jump scene. I am sure it’s within a few hundred yards, but that ain’t it.
@@RedcastleGAV78 I did my own thorough analysis and sent it to KRH. I'm pretty sure I've nailed the exact spot. It's slightly east of the neighborhood park, where the creek takes a sharp bend. The scenery and everything lines up with the sceenshots. The ravine is still there, running just North of the park. It's just completely overgrown. 1980 and '85 aerials are available on historicaerials. In the '85 one you can even faintly make out the remnants of the bulldozed track and other details that fully match the scene.
@@thomasseifert910 hey man. I have just done the exact same thing without even seeing your response and you have it dead on correct. You even see the two paths/roads running left to right to the bottom of that hill too on the aerial photos in 1985. And yes just now I see the faint bulldozed track. 👍
The site of the final turbo boost of the series
I wish he would have tried to see where the dozer made a path on the other side.
Someone could recreate the KITT jump POV with a drone today.