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Back in 1993 or 1994, I was maybe 12 years old. I lived in Ironton Ohio. I was in 8th grade at IHS. My dad worked at Malone's Junk Yard and he would let me come along with him and I would hunt for Tapes and CD's in the cars. One day we spot a Teal Blue Trans Am with a Factory Digital Dash and T-Tops. My dad bought it and we fixed it up together and painted it jet black. Then we ordered one of these JC Whitney light bars and my dad cut out a space in the nose to install the light bar. It was me and my dad's pride and joy. Lol. Me and my dad didn't always get along good, but when he was kind he was the most kind person I knew. Thinking about all these old forgotten memories is kinda painful. Holy crap we all got old, didn't we. ❤
Hey, there, Joe! I was driving a Saturn SL2 in the late 1990s, and I purchased a J.C. Whitney scanner bar back then to decorate it. My father helped me install it, and he could not find a spot under the hood to set it (and it wouldn't have been visible from the front anyway}. So we wound up mounting it in the grill at the bottom of the front bumper. I got Amber because I didn't want to get pulled over if I left it on while driving. Well, it got attention, for sure. When I went out at night, I'd turn it on, and it would really turn some heads. It was fun, for a little while. My sister from South Carolina called them "ni---- lights," and it did seem that black people enjoyed seeing it the most. Go figure. But here was the problem: I live in Michigan, and the scanner didn't survive the winter. Apparently cars on the road in front of me were kicking up snow mixed with salt, and within a couple of months the lights shorted out and the scanner quit scanning. Very sad. Well, Dad helped me take it out of the car the next summer, and I didn't bother replacing it because I knew it would just die again in six months. So that's my story. I enjoyed pretending to drive a KITT for a season, but had to let it go. Now I drive a Honda Fit, and I just call her KITTen. No scanner, but she's a dependable car anyway. Thanks for reading my comment.
I used to love Knight Rider back in the 80s. My seven year old boy started to ask if he could watch it a week or two ago. It was one of the best feelings! We are only half way through Season 1 but he loves it! I've been a subscriber to your channel for ages now and when a new video is uploaded I get the same feeling I used to get when a new Knight Rider episode was about to start. Keep up the good work guys 🙂❤️👍
I put this on my Saturn SC2, and later my Mazda Miata. I went with the amber version to avoid running afoul of the law on the street. I always turned it on while competing at autocross events, which gave everyone a good laugh!
That`s funny. Never thought I will see that scanner again. I bought that exact scanner 1989 from Conrad Electronic in Germany. I was 14 yrs old, so I don`t had a car. I mounted the scanner bar onto my bike.🤭😂😂
JC Whitney started as Warshawsky Auto Parts on the south side of Chicago. I used to go there as a kid with my Dad. I loved going there with him because they had everything in that catalog in the store including that scanner. I wanted my Dad to buy one for our car. It didn’t happen. They later closed and moved to central Illinois. Smaller showroom and bigger warehouse. One of my favorite things we used to do together. I miss my dad very much! Very cool, thanks for bringing these beloved memories.
In 1989 I began Freshman year in a vocational high school. I took electronics. At some point in the year I had to pick out an electronics project from a catalog that I would buy and complete as a class assignment. I bought a Knight Rider scanner. it was the exact same JC Whitney bar, but completely unassembled. Even the circuit boards were bare.
That's so cool and nostalgic!! I remember seeing the ad in catalogs that my dad used to get, thanks AJ for buying a extra one! 🎉🎉 keep up the great work Joe!
a guy i knew was into electronics made his own setup and had it on his motor bike the rear stop light had the letters STOP and would light up one by one when put on the brakes
I have one of those lights still .. one of the lights stopped working and the lights are dim compared to today's lights. I had my light mounted on a 76 Buick Electra 225 that was stretched 2 ft... Everyone called my car the knight Rider Limo.
Bought two of these in the late 90s for the KITT replica I had back then. Replica and scanner bars are long gone sadly, but I do still have an unused controller along with its hardware and fitting instructions.
Crazy how far we’ve come. Never thought back when I was buying my JC Whitney scanner that 20 years later I’d have legit scanner that makes the correct swooshing sound. Looking forward to seeing more and more improvements as the technology grows
Saw it in the catalog but never had a use for it. Bought the Dixie Horn for my 67 Coronet. I had senior year of HS. After I wrecked it in 1999, put it on the shelf. Fast forward to 07 when I bought my Sublime Charger pulled it out and surprisingly it worked. 😂 still in the car.
Of my many Trans Ams from back in the 80s,, I had a black one with the hub caps just like KITT I thought I was the coolest person ever. Then I decided to put a tinted plexiglass tail light cover on.. Big mistake. I got pulled over and given a nice hefty ticket..
I had one of those on my car for about two years. Sold the car and kept the light bar. It is now sitting in a drawer in my garage and has been ever since.
So cool! I bought and have this scanner too. I bought it approx. 15 years ago and never mounted it to my car because it is illegal in my country. Nice to know more about this piece of hardware now. Thank you!
I remember having a JC Whitney scanner on my 1996 Pontiac Grand Prix and my friend Mike Hyatt helped me put on my Grand Prix and my friend Mike Hyatt has a KITT replica and it's a 1984 Trans Am and it's my favorite car and George Barris autographed his dashboard in 2009 in Las Vegas and his car got best in show Joe.
Yes, I've been subscribed to and watched his videos for years. Not just KR stuff either. I haven't seen a new video from him in a long time though... @KN1IGHT
I have one of these in Australia. Must have been an eBay purchase many years ago. But I had to cut the ribbon wire to fit the control box inside the vehicle.... (I cut the wires and put them on a small connector.) I still have this somewhere....
What a great find from the past. As a kid in the 90's, I rarely saw cars with the red scanner light, and I remember visiting with my parents one of my uncles who lives in Rotterdam, The Netherlands in the summer of 1996 and saw a white Honda, Nissan or Toyota two-door coupe with pop-up headlights and a working red scanner. Unfortunately, I don't know the brand of the light. It still looked great, but not as great as the one on Kitt's front bumper. Speaking of Kitt, it was the first time I watched Knight Rider in English with Dutch subtitles. I couldn't understand or read a word, but it was fun to rewatch a familiar episode in another country. The episode was Just My Bill. I always watched the show dubbed in German or French. What great memories. Knight Rider was more often on German TV and was still being broadcast in Germany last year.
Had a couple of them back in the mid 90s when I first started driving, brings back memories. Im going to start working on my replica next week, hopefully I can drive KITT around with a correct scanner before I get too old! Thanks for the trip down memory lane Joe.
I had an 84 Chrysler laser in 1990, I bought that scanner bar in Amber from J C Whitney. That car was the first car as far as I know That has the talking feature that Chrysler came out with.
That is F***ing tastic. I had the same exact scanner in Germany, I was around 14yo, I had this on my room wall for a few years, and then mounted it onto the perfectly matching grill of mother´s Fiat Panda.. Then it went into the Mazda 323F, which had the perfect front slim cooling slit for it. I never thought I´d see it again...oh my! Great Scott KRH, you nailed it! Wish I could attach pictures here
Nice to see a new old stock example of these scanners, thumbs up for AJ for keeping this one unboxed all this time. Never seen these here in Finland, but I remember seeing some replica photos online in the early 2000's with these scanner lights.
My beother bought one new from jc whitney back in the mid to early 2000's, and put it in the grill of his 96 ford taurus hahaha... I still have the orignal control box for it. It introduced me to transistors for the first time in my life at a very early age, when he accidently shorted some of the wires to ground causing certain lights to stay full-on, and some channels to no longer work... I learnt what transistors were, learnt what the pins do, and even rapaired that controller years and years and years later! I had to replace a lot of the leds in the control box that got broke off, but its good as new now lol
Something so simple but so nostalgic. Love to see an amber one. I remember when this hit the JC Whitney catalog. When I saw the pic of you and your friends ranger, brought me right back to 1997 with me and my cousin. My Z34 and his silverado, I have the same faded Pic.
Still got mine and using it with some mods. It sold for $19.99 when I got it ten years before AJ bought his. Only complaint I had was how there is a slight pause at the end of each cycle. I also have a spare module and light bar I found in a van at the junkyard...just don't know where I put them though 🤔😄
I bought one just like it and installed it on my 1997 Plymouth Neon. I had done a custom grille for it to mount it on. But the thing was not very water tight, went through a car wash and water got inside- and wrecked it.
That's correct because both shows were created by Glen A Larson,he took the Cylon light and used it to great effect as KITT's scanner for Knight Rider.
Up until 2 years ago I had this in the grill of my 06 F-150. My wife got it for me in 2010 the year before we got married. I only took it off because it had faded so bad it was a light pink and multiple bulbs were out.
I had an amber one that I installed on my 1985 Plymouth Conquest. Fit neatly behind the small grill. Still have the scanner. Sold the car years ago and removed it before I did
ahhh I forgot all about that JC Whitney scanner. I saw that in some issues I had back then. I got the magazine when someone told me the Dukes of Hazzard horn was in it, and I did in fact order 2. But years later a friend talked me into selling him the extra
Awesome intro. I saw those even though I wanted one I never got one. I kept pushing it off. In the 90's someone made a truck with Dangerous Toys painted on it based on the band and their clown character Bill Z. Bub. They put a red scanner on the back of that truck. I looked it up $29.99 in 1997 in 2025 is $57 & in 2000 $26.99 is approximately $55.20. I wouldn't mind making a Knight Rider bicycle with one of those are some newer versions of that. Last thing when it is on screen it looks like that scanner is shooting laser beams at you.
I like to ad in the 50's JC had a dual headlight setup you can put on a 57 Ford. Last year another channel for full sized Fords put up a video of a 57 Ford with that setup. First time I ever saw on for real instead of the drawing in the catalog,
Great video Joe and AJ!! Guys, just a question: Is there any way to replicate the scanner used from the Pilot Episode when Michael meets KITT in the warehouse for the first time?
I put this light in my college 7th floor dorm window. It would flash at night courtesy of a Radio Shack 12V power supply. I always thought it was funny when i would occasionally hear other students' address where they lived in relation to the light.
Replica parts have come a long way; today's stuff is so good. I think it's a great find, but not such a great product. It misses the Whoosh effect from the originals, and that is what makes the KITT scanner so cool. But still a nice piece of Knight Rider history.
I still have this JC Whitney scanner today. I bought the scanner on eBay in 2009, imported from the USA to Germany for US $54.99 + US $9.00 / EUR 40.40 + EUR 6.61 from eBay dealer Murry-Maker I haven't used the scanner for a long time, but it should still work.
A great video but,this was not the first .in 1988- 1989 a small company named custom electronics sold an exterior kitt conversion package including fiberglass kitt front nose,4 halogen driving lights and 2 amber lenses for replacement directional signal indicators, a bracket to mount these lights into the nose and a kitt scanner bar with either a red or an amber lense.the light bar looks similar to the j.c. Whitney one but is of different construction along with a totally different control box that operates the same way but doesn't go as slow as the j.c Whitney control.the company was advertised in the high performance pontiac magazines and pre dates Mark's custom Kitts ect. I bought my package in 1989 and it's still on and working on my 82 trans am.hope to see more on this type of aftermarket knight rider information as it is a part of the history of knight rider
I've always wanted to have an accessory like this. However -- if you're actually going to have this on your car, do not have it on when driving. Cops don't like red lights on the front of your vehicle. ;)
Have you ever come across the Custom Electronics nose from 1986? My friend Rob still has it on his BITT car (Besozzi Industries 2000). I think he told me it was around $350 with nose and scanner installed. I have used several JC Whittney scanners in the late 1980's and early 2000's.
I would order off and on from JC and I remember seeing the scanner light in the catalog but never ordered it. I always had a concern about the legal aspect if having a red moving light on the front of the car. But I did cheat somewhat concerning that thought. My father was a member of the local volunteer fire department and he ket me mount his teardrop red dash light on our car's dashboard. This was the same car I drove during high-school. I grewup in a small town and rural area so as long as I didn't turn the light on, the police never bothered me about driving with a red dash light. I attended a private boarding school for high school but I lived off campus, never lived in the dorms. I would get a lot of puzzled looks from students and staff when I would show up on campus driving a car with that red daylight. Looking through the other comments, I noticed no one mentioned that KARR had the amber scanner light. Find it and build a replica KARR.
I still wish the original series could have had 2 more KITT "siblings", another good car with blue scanner and voice box and another bad car with green scanner and voice box, each being female!
I’m guilty of buying one, but never installed it. After a countless number of moves, I’ve lost it. I would love to have pictures of the circuit board and chip numbers. I know it’s a shift register ic chip, but I don’t remember the other 2 chips that were used.
Yep bought one of those for my kitt replica. I was in heaven. My friend still uses one in his replica. But I now have one of Brenon Fulbrights 55 watt halogen scanners.
I had this exact one from JC Whitney.....until my best friend tried to mess with it and up the brightness. Needless to say he fried it and never replaced it.
I nearly bought one of those about 20 years ago...nearly, I got in touch with them asking for dimensions etc. I do however still have a smaller, unrelated blue scanner from the now obsolete knightlight website! It looks similar to those used in the Torchwood Discovery but scans back and forth using a PIC microcontroller.
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I sold quite a few working for JC Whitney from 96-07. Also had a lot of complaints about defective unit.
I was a volunteer Firefighter/ EMT in the late 90's early 2000's. Along with other lights and siren, I had one of these on my 92 Ford Ranger.
Back in 1993 or 1994, I was maybe 12 years old. I lived in Ironton Ohio. I was in 8th grade at IHS. My dad worked at Malone's Junk Yard and he would let me come along with him and I would hunt for Tapes and CD's in the cars.
One day we spot a Teal Blue Trans Am with a Factory Digital Dash and T-Tops. My dad bought it and we fixed it up together and painted it jet black. Then we ordered one of these JC Whitney light bars and my dad cut out a space in the nose to install the light bar. It was me and my dad's pride and joy. Lol. Me and my dad didn't always get along good, but when he was kind he was the most kind person I knew. Thinking about all these old forgotten memories is kinda painful. Holy crap we all got old, didn't we. ❤
What a fantastic story, and thank you for your donation!
We all wish we were Michael Knight. You’re living the dream for all of us buddy 👍
I built my first car with JC Whitney in the 90’s
Thanks for the nostalgia
Hey, there, Joe! I was driving a Saturn SL2 in the late 1990s, and I purchased a J.C. Whitney scanner bar back then to decorate it. My father helped me install it, and he could not find a spot under the hood to set it (and it wouldn't have been visible from the front anyway}. So we wound up mounting it in the grill at the bottom of the front bumper. I got Amber because I didn't want to get pulled over if I left it on while driving.
Well, it got attention, for sure. When I went out at night, I'd turn it on, and it would really turn some heads. It was fun, for a little while. My sister from South Carolina called them "ni---- lights," and it did seem that black people enjoyed seeing it the most. Go figure.
But here was the problem: I live in Michigan, and the scanner didn't survive the winter. Apparently cars on the road in front of me were kicking up snow mixed with salt, and within a couple of months the lights shorted out and the scanner quit scanning. Very sad. Well, Dad helped me take it out of the car the next summer, and I didn't bother replacing it because I knew it would just die again in six months.
So that's my story. I enjoyed pretending to drive a KITT for a season, but had to let it go. Now I drive a Honda Fit, and I just call her KITTen. No scanner, but she's a dependable car anyway. Thanks for reading my comment.
I used to love Knight Rider back in the 80s. My seven year old boy started to ask if he could watch it a week or two ago. It was one of the best feelings! We are only half way through Season 1 but he loves it! I've been a subscriber to your channel for ages now and when a new video is uploaded I get the same feeling I used to get when a new Knight Rider episode was about to start. Keep up the good work guys 🙂❤️👍
I put this on my Saturn SC2, and later my Mazda Miata. I went with the amber version to avoid running afoul of the law on the street. I always turned it on while competing at autocross events, which gave everyone a good laugh!
That`s funny. Never thought I will see that scanner again. I bought that exact scanner 1989 from Conrad Electronic in Germany. I was 14 yrs old, so I don`t had a car. I mounted the scanner bar onto my bike.🤭😂😂
Didn't exspect that Conrad sold these.....
JC Whitney started as Warshawsky Auto Parts on the south side of Chicago. I used to go there as a kid with my Dad. I loved going there with him because they had everything in that catalog in the store including that scanner. I wanted my Dad to buy one for our car. It didn’t happen. They later closed and moved to central Illinois. Smaller showroom and bigger warehouse. One of my favorite things we used to do together. I miss my dad very much! Very cool, thanks for bringing these beloved memories.
In 1989 I began Freshman year in a vocational high school. I took electronics. At some point in the year I had to pick out an electronics project from a catalog that I would buy and complete as a class assignment.
I bought a Knight Rider scanner. it was the exact same JC Whitney bar, but completely unassembled. Even the circuit boards were bare.
I ordered a lot of things from JC Whitney back in the day and was happy with their products and service!
same here. never had a bad experience.
Same, I always looked forward to that catalog coming in the mail!
Great throwback into your 90s teenage years. How cool to have owned a black 82-84 Trans Am back then.
That's so cool and nostalgic!! I remember seeing the ad in catalogs that my dad used to get, thanks AJ for buying a extra one! 🎉🎉 keep up the great work Joe!
Always wanted to buy one of these back in the day but never did. Great to see one alive and in action. 😊
a guy i knew was into electronics made his own setup and had it on his motor bike the rear stop light had the letters STOP and would light up one by one when put on the brakes
Made in Taiwan! Wow! JC Whitney wasn’t messing around! Outside of Japan, Taiwan is tops for quality
I have one of those lights still .. one of the lights stopped working and the lights are dim compared to today's lights. I had my light mounted on a 76 Buick Electra 225 that was stretched 2 ft... Everyone called my car the knight Rider Limo.
Bought two of these in the late 90s for the KITT replica I had back then. Replica and scanner bars are long gone sadly, but I do still have an unused controller along with its hardware and fitting instructions.
The lamps on that look like the parking lights on some trailers - so perhaps the lenses wouldn't be impossible to find.
I have an similar scanner. I bought it ten years ago in the secondhand shop with used clothes 😂
I got the "Dixie" air horn from JC Whitney back in the 80s.
Same here.
Crazy how far we’ve come. Never thought back when I was buying my JC Whitney scanner that 20 years later I’d have legit scanner that makes the correct swooshing sound. Looking forward to seeing more and more improvements as the technology grows
Can I ask where you got that scanner from?
@@davidjames1389Joe's business partner AJ bought it new 25 years ago, he stated that in the video...
@@danielfoster2339I was asking about the "legit scanner" the commenter said he had now.
Looks so much better than the modern LED versions
Saw it in the catalog but never had a use for it. Bought the Dixie Horn for my 67 Coronet. I had senior year of HS. After I wrecked it in 1999, put it on the shelf.
Fast forward to 07 when I bought my Sublime Charger pulled it out and surprisingly it worked. 😂 still in the car.
Of my many Trans Ams from back in the 80s,, I had a black one with the hub caps just like KITT
I thought I was the coolest person ever. Then I decided to put a tinted plexiglass tail light cover on.. Big mistake. I got pulled over and given a nice hefty ticket..
I had one of those on my car for about two years. Sold the car and kept the light bar. It is now sitting in a drawer in my garage and has been ever since.
So cool! I bought and have this scanner too. I bought it approx. 15 years ago and never mounted it to my car because it is illegal in my country. Nice to know more about this piece of hardware now. Thank you!
I remember having a JC Whitney scanner on my 1996 Pontiac Grand Prix and my friend Mike Hyatt helped me put on my Grand Prix and my friend Mike Hyatt has a KITT replica and it's a 1984 Trans Am and it's my favorite car and George Barris autographed his dashboard in 2009 in Las Vegas and his car got best in show Joe.
Yes, I've been subscribed to and watched his videos for years. Not just KR stuff either. I haven't seen a new video from him in a long time though... @KN1IGHT
I remember these in the JC Whitney catalog, in all their B&W ink line draw catalogue page glory!
I have one of these in Australia. Must have been an eBay purchase many years ago.
But I had to cut the ribbon wire to fit the control box inside the vehicle.... (I cut the wires and put them on a small connector.)
I still have this somewhere....
What a great find from the past. As a kid in the 90's, I rarely saw cars with the red scanner light, and I remember visiting with my parents one of my uncles who lives in Rotterdam, The Netherlands in the summer of 1996 and saw a white Honda, Nissan or Toyota two-door coupe with pop-up headlights and a working red scanner. Unfortunately, I don't know the brand of the light. It still looked great, but not as great as the one on Kitt's front bumper.
Speaking of Kitt, it was the first time I watched Knight Rider in English with Dutch subtitles. I couldn't understand or read a word, but it was fun to rewatch a familiar episode in another country. The episode was Just My Bill. I always watched the show dubbed in German or French. What great memories. Knight Rider was more often on German TV and was still being broadcast in Germany last year.
Had a couple of them back in the mid 90s when I first started driving, brings back memories. Im going to start working on my replica next week, hopefully I can drive KITT around with a correct scanner before I get too old! Thanks for the trip down memory lane Joe.
I had one of these scanners on my Oldsmobile! I've still got the pictures of that car. It was my poor man's KITT in highschool 😆
I still have my light bar! In pieces but i have it. I miss that catalog! 80s 90s were the best.
I had an 84 Chrysler laser in 1990, I bought that scanner bar in Amber from J C Whitney. That car was the first car as far as I know That has the talking feature that Chrysler came out with.
I first seen these in JCWhitney in 2003 in a catalog. I always wondered how they were and looked. Very cool as always!
That is F***ing tastic. I had the same exact scanner in Germany, I was around 14yo,
I had this on my room wall for a few years, and then mounted it onto the perfectly matching grill of mother´s Fiat Panda..
Then it went into the Mazda 323F, which had the perfect front slim cooling slit for it.
I never thought I´d see it again...oh my! Great Scott KRH, you nailed it! Wish I could attach pictures here
Glad you enjoyed it!
I remember mine. I was the only person with one in my local area. Love that thang.
Nice to see a new old stock example of these scanners, thumbs up for AJ for keeping this one unboxed all this time. Never seen these here in Finland, but I remember seeing some replica photos online in the early 2000's with these scanner lights.
My beother bought one new from jc whitney back in the mid to early 2000's, and put it in the grill of his 96 ford taurus hahaha... I still have the orignal control box for it. It introduced me to transistors for the first time in my life at a very early age, when he accidently shorted some of the wires to ground causing certain lights to stay full-on, and some channels to no longer work...
I learnt what transistors were, learnt what the pins do, and even rapaired that controller years and years and years later! I had to replace a lot of the leds in the control box that got broke off, but its good as new now lol
Happy new year to joe and your family thank you for all the wonderful entertainment watching from South Africa
I had one back in the day in my car
Something so simple but so nostalgic. Love to see an amber one. I remember when this hit the JC Whitney catalog. When I saw the pic of you and your friends ranger, brought me right back to 1997 with me and my cousin. My Z34 and his silverado, I have the same faded Pic.
Still got mine and using it with some mods. It sold for $19.99 when I got it ten years before AJ bought his. Only complaint I had was how there is a slight pause at the end of each cycle. I also have a spare module and light bar I found in a van at the junkyard...just don't know where I put them though 🤔😄
Yup my 1st scanner was a JC Whitney and I loved that thing still really not that shabby for what it was.
I really miss JC Whitney. They had so much cool stuff.
I bought one just like it and installed it on my 1997 Plymouth Neon. I had done a custom grille for it to mount it on. But the thing was not very water tight, went through a car wash and water got inside- and wrecked it.
I found the same scanner used at a flea market in 2019. I bought it used for 4 euros. A cool souvenir. greetings from Germany
That is awesome. I had to get me a slim LED one. It doesn’t have the same look to it but it is close enough.
Hello Knight Rider Historians. I've enjoyed all of your videos. Happy New Year to you and your family.
Thank you for watching and Happy New Year to you as well!
By no coincidence, it reminds me of the Cylon helmet from Battlestar Galactica
That's correct because both shows were created by Glen A Larson,he took the Cylon light and used it to great effect as KITT's scanner for Knight Rider.
Up until 2 years ago I had this in the grill of my 06 F-150. My wife got it for me in 2010 the year before we got married. I only took it off because it had faded so bad it was a light pink and multiple bulbs were out.
I definitely remember these and that catalog back in the day, didn't know about the Knight 4000 having one of these though. Great video, man.
Happy New Year Buddy!!😎👍👍👍 Greetings from Finland🇫🇮🇺🇸🇫🇮🇺🇸
I had an amber one that I installed on my 1985 Plymouth Conquest. Fit neatly behind the small grill. Still have the scanner. Sold the car years ago and removed it before I did
I own one of those.. used to have it on my car with wires strapped down with those plastic straps lol
Very cool, nostalgie
Great video thanks
Had mine installed on my first car in 1993. Had it installed on a 1988 Nissan Pulsar. lol
I owned a red and an amber, not sure what happened to them. I feared getting a ticket less with the amber light bar.
Always my favorite show
ahhh I forgot all about that JC Whitney scanner. I saw that in some issues I had back then. I got the magazine when someone told me the Dukes of Hazzard horn was in it, and I did in fact order 2. But years later a friend talked me into selling him the extra
Awesome intro. I saw those even though I wanted one I never got one. I kept pushing it off. In the 90's someone made a truck with Dangerous Toys painted on it based on the band and their clown character Bill Z. Bub. They put a red scanner on the back of that truck. I looked it up $29.99 in 1997 in 2025 is $57 & in 2000 $26.99 is approximately $55.20.
I wouldn't mind making a Knight Rider bicycle with one of those are some newer versions of that. Last thing when it is on screen it looks like that scanner is shooting laser beams at you.
I like to ad in the 50's JC had a dual headlight setup you can put on a 57 Ford. Last year another channel for full sized Fords put up a video of a 57 Ford with that setup. First time I ever saw on for real instead of the drawing in the catalog,
I’ve got one exactly the same in the same box that’s also never been used 😬
When I worked at JC Whitney I remember selling a bunch of these. The return rate was high due to defects.
I had a near identical setup that I got through my HS electronics class, you had to solder the lights to the PCB yourself and the wires.
Hi Joe and Kitt and Scanner and AJ PAST AND FUTURE NICE VIDEO 📹 AND WORKMANSHIP
Great video Joe and AJ!! Guys, just a question: Is there any way to replicate the scanner used from the Pilot Episode when Michael meets KITT in the warehouse for the first time?
Oh yes, we already have, using the original schematics given to us by the original designer! You'll see it on the channel at some point!
@@KnightRiderHistoriansOfficial Thank you so much!! It would be great if you can make a video just about that!!
I put this light in my college 7th floor dorm window. It would flash at night courtesy of a Radio Shack 12V power supply. I always thought it was funny when i would occasionally hear other students' address where they lived in relation to the light.
NOS!!...Unreal!
Originally designed with Series 2000 circuitry!
Replica parts have come a long way; today's stuff is so good. I think it's a great find, but not such a great product. It misses the Whoosh effect from the originals, and that is what makes the KITT scanner so cool. But still a nice piece of Knight Rider history.
I still have this JC Whitney scanner today. I bought the scanner on eBay in 2009, imported from the USA to Germany for US $54.99 + US $9.00 / EUR 40.40 + EUR 6.61 from eBay dealer Murry-Maker
I haven't used the scanner for a long time, but it should still work.
I have had my JC Whitney Knight Rider scanner and I want another one
A great video but,this was not the first .in 1988- 1989 a small company named custom electronics sold an exterior kitt conversion package including fiberglass kitt front nose,4 halogen driving lights and 2 amber lenses for replacement directional signal indicators, a bracket to mount these lights into the nose and a kitt scanner bar with either a red or an amber lense.the light bar looks similar to the j.c. Whitney one but is of different construction along with a totally different control box that operates the same way but doesn't go as slow as the j.c Whitney control.the company was advertised in the high performance pontiac magazines and pre dates Mark's custom Kitts ect. I bought my package in 1989 and it's still on and working on my 82 trans am.hope to see more on this type of aftermarket knight rider information as it is a part of the history of knight rider
$29 in 1997 is $57.13 today!
de haber llegado a españa esa revista, lo hubieramos agotado!, aun que no es el original, se ve guapisimo, para tenerlo en la pared jejeje
Really cool
That's awesome..wow even still better than the led scanners they have now lol
i miss (the old) jc whitney.
I've always wanted to have an accessory like this. However -- if you're actually going to have this on your car, do not have it on when driving. Cops don't like red lights on the front of your vehicle. ;)
Awesome 👍
I have one at home 😊😅
Very very cool
Maybe install it in a Blue Chevy.....😉
Have you ever come across the Custom Electronics nose from 1986? My friend Rob still has it on his BITT car (Besozzi Industries 2000). I think he told me it was around $350 with nose and scanner installed.
I have used several JC Whittney scanners in the late 1980's and early 2000's.
Id love to see some pictures of that nose!
Happy new year 🎉 Thank you for all the great work and videos.😊
I would order off and on from JC and I remember seeing the scanner light in the catalog but never ordered it. I always had a concern about the legal aspect if having a red moving light on the front of the car. But I did cheat somewhat concerning that thought. My father was a member of the local volunteer fire department and he ket me mount his teardrop red dash light on our car's dashboard. This was the same car I drove during high-school. I grewup in a small town and rural area so as long as I didn't turn the light on, the police never bothered me about driving with a red dash light. I attended a private boarding school for high school but I lived off campus, never lived in the dorms. I would get a lot of puzzled looks from students and staff when I would show up on campus driving a car with that red daylight.
Looking through the other comments, I noticed no one mentioned that KARR had the amber scanner light. Find it and build a replica KARR.
It would be nice if someone could replicate the effect with LED's so that it wasn't such a massive power drain.
Seems like a simple enough project.
Many people do these days. The only downside is that, if you want a trail, it'll flicker on any camera.
It's worth the power drain. Plus incandescent just have a way better feel
I still wish the original series could have had 2 more KITT "siblings", another good car with blue scanner and voice box and another bad car with green scanner and voice box, each being female!
I’m guilty of buying one, but never installed it. After a countless number of moves, I’ve lost it.
I would love to have pictures of the circuit board and chip numbers. I know it’s a shift register ic chip, but I don’t remember the other 2 chips that were used.
I had the amber one on an 85 Camaro. If I still have it I can send it to you
That would be incredible! Thank you!
Gutes Video Gruß an dich 🏆🍀👍
Yep bought one of those for my kitt replica. I was in heaven. My friend still uses one in his replica. But I now have one of Brenon Fulbrights 55 watt halogen scanners.
"By your command." Cylon centurion
I had this exact one from JC Whitney.....until my best friend tried to mess with it and up the brightness. Needless to say he fried it and never replaced it.
I totally had one on my Fiero Gt. Separate 12v alarm battery so I could leave it on. Good stuff.
I want to to know about the can of “RED POP” on the cabinet behind him. Is that an authentic no frills product?
sure is! from the early 80s. I had it as a kid then just kept it for some unknown reason!
That is awesomeness. I have the exact same thing. What device is being used to power it?
I nearly bought one of those about 20 years ago...nearly, I got in touch with them asking for dimensions etc. I do however still have a smaller, unrelated blue scanner from the now obsolete knightlight website! It looks similar to those used in the Torchwood Discovery but scans back and forth using a PIC microcontroller.