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Own Your Own, Original KITT!
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If you were one of the folks who weren't too impressed by the sight of the new KITT for the television remake of Knight Rider, you can now bid on one of the original Knight Rider cars over at eBay. (There are a ton of pics in the link for potential bidders to check out how well it has held up, and how it looks inside.) For fans, this is all sorts of good news, but man, the reason this car is up for auction is completely messed up.
Over at The Bad and Ugly, they run down what happened to get this car listed on eBay. The car was bought for $69,000 in May of 2005 by a businessman named Andrew Kissel. However, he had increasing legal issues due to some document forging and bogus loans, so he was never able to pick it up. The man was then found murdered in his house before starting his prison sentence. But that's not all -- it seems that his brother also met a terrible fate when he drank a milkshake poisoned by his wife.
Since the car never ended up in the hands of Kissel, hopefully it won't have the same bad karma. (It's not like we're talking about James Dean's cursed ride.) Me, I'd like to see Glen A. Larsen pick it up and use it in his upcoming Knight Rider feature, even if it is a bit old-school.
Check Out the New Knight Rider Car!
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There's no more Trans Am goodness for Michael Knight or rather, the next generation -- Mike Tracer. (Every time I hear his name, I think of the Chasing Amy tracer rant.) The first KITT was a Pontiac Trans Am T-top, but this time around, the Knight Rider back-door pilot/television special is getting some Ford power. Jalopnik scored pictures of the new generation KITT, and it's a 550 HP Ford Shelby GT500KR Mustang, which you can see above.
Never being a Trans Am fan, I'm pretty happy with the auto choice. It's modernized, but it still has the lights and KITT feel to it. (The site mentions that the lights were photoshopped in for the picture, because they weren't working when it was taken; but otherwise, that's the car in all its real glory.) Before, I just liked the idea of a car you could chat with -- it makes long trips alone all the more fun. (I wonder if KITT would sing along to the radio?) But now, I would love to take that out for a test-drive. How about you?
[via Coming Soon]
Gee, You Don't Say: A Knight Rider Movie
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Ok, hands up if you're surprised by the news that The Weinstein Company is going to make a movie version of Knight Rider. Yeah, that's what I thought -- I see three hands. Despite the fact that, thus far, big-screen versions of TV classics (using the word loosely, in some cases) have for the most part not only been critically lambasted but also box office failures, Hollywood seems to have a wild hair about the concept, and are clearly determined to beat that horse until its good and dead (while I sit here and gleefully mix my metaphors). Weirdly, the IMDb already has a listing for the film, starring David Hasselhoff -- a project that must be either dead or made-up.What's going to be even more fun that then inevitable "If The Hoff's not in it, I'm not going!" versus "OMG! Owen Wilson would be so great in this!" debates is the fact that TWC apparently see this thing as having "franchise potential." Come on -- what's better than a whole lot of movies about a talking car?
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