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A surprise find
« on: August 22, 2010, 08:08:16 pm »
This was one of those days when you wished you'd brought along your camera.

After some sleepless night, I was reluctant to go grocery shopping today. Realising there was no decent food in the house (tinned beans, carrots and cereal aren't things I'd like to combine into a meal!), I went out. Thank god I did.

Drove to the supermarked and parked in my usual spot. I looked up and saw something. At the cellular level, synapses were firing off at incredible rates and my heart skipped a few beats as I saw this:



Looks like a Pontiac Trans-Am, the kind that was in Smokey and the Bandit right? Wrong. Even on a subconscious level I'd recognised blacked out tail light. No Trans-Ams were ever produced with this blacked-out taillight. In fact, there was only ever one vehicle that had such a rear end:



Took a few pics:













I wished I'd taken more pics put the crap visibility on the iphone screen and the camera meant the shots weren't brilliant. Plus I was blocking traffic as I took pictures and where I live, they're not bothered about running you over. Anyway, I went inside, realised I hadn't taken any interior shots and decided to head back. Alas, the car was gone.

I've seen two proper Pontiac Trans-Ams in the UK but never seen one converted to KITT in real life. This one does need some corrective work to bring the paintwork up though.
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Re: A surprise find
« Reply #1 on: August 22, 2010, 08:24:42 pm »
But did you see `the Hoff` ?

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Re: A surprise find
« Reply #2 on: August 22, 2010, 08:49:57 pm »
With you 100% Stealth!!  :notworthy: :notworthy:

Dreamed as a lad of driving/owning one of those bads boys!!

Where was it Stealth?

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Re: A surprise find
« Reply #3 on: August 22, 2010, 08:57:41 pm »
Bandit car was a bit of an earlier version, but that's an ACE find!!! I'd have licked it.

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Re: A surprise find
« Reply #4 on: August 22, 2010, 09:01:08 pm »
i know that there is one in bradford and i know where it lives  :laugh:

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Re: A surprise find
« Reply #5 on: August 22, 2010, 09:01:39 pm »
cracking effort stealth, super pursuit mode FTMFW!!

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Re: A surprise find
« Reply #6 on: August 22, 2010, 09:10:36 pm »
Nice find MICHEAL! Where were you?

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Re: A surprise find
« Reply #7 on: August 22, 2010, 09:15:21 pm »
i know that there is one in bradford and i know where it lives  :laugh:

There's one in a museum near the Lakes too.  :wink:

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Re: A surprise find
« Reply #8 on: August 22, 2010, 09:31:39 pm »
i know that there is one in bradford and i know where it lives  :laugh:

Dont believe I have seen it, maybe im just ignorant towards it. See pretty much all cars in Bradford.
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Re: A surprise find
« Reply #9 on: August 22, 2010, 09:39:28 pm »
the orig kit in knight rider is in Kesick with a few other famous cars its only up the road from me

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Re: A surprise find
« Reply #10 on: August 22, 2010, 10:08:54 pm »
But did you see `the Hoff` ?
Nope. It was quite obviously a fan-car rather than the original. I didn't get a pic of the interior but it was the standard version rather than the modified version.

Dreamed as a lad of driving/owning one of those bads boys!!
+1. There's a reason I bought a black car with a red stripe on the front!

Where was it Stealth?
Parked up in Morrisons by the Blues ground. Never in a million years did I think I would see it there.


Bandit car was a bit of an earlier version, but that's an ACE find!!! I'd have licked it.
The Bandit car in S&B 1 was the 77 model that you posted a pic up of. In the third film, it's an 83 model. KITT was an 82-85 series model.


i know that there is one in bradford and i know where it lives  :laugh:
Quite a few Knight Rider fans have managed to get ahold of Trans-Ams and convert them. It's easier in the US since the parts are more readily available.

super pursuit mode FTMFW!!
I absolutely hated super-pursuit mode. I reckon it's what gave rise to the transformer version in the 2008 tv series.

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Re: A surprise find
« Reply #11 on: August 23, 2010, 09:24:06 am »
Ahh... yes, I remember now.

I'd erased S&B III out of my mind, on the grounds of it being so crap and not having Burt Reynolds in.
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