Knight Rider 1982 Pontiac Trans Am

The car itself has a 305 v8 with an automatic transmission.

Knight rider 1982 pontiac trans am. This 1982 pontiac firebird trans am is a replica of kitt from the knight rider television series and was owned by iconic automotive customizer george barris. General motors provided the first two vehicles off the assembly line for the 2008 pilot film. Stanchions and crowd control available. When knight rider was in development the show s creators homed in on the pontiac trans am to be its primary car.

Knight industries two thousand in the popular 80s television series knight rider is that it was not supposed to happen that and. Knight rider 1984 pontiac trans am k i t t. The thing about the black trans am that starred as k i t t. By ron fowler may 21 2020 david hasselhoff and his pontiac firebird trans am named kitt knight industries two thousand were earth s 1980s version of luke skywalker and r2d2.

April 16 1982 was like any other friday morning until eric dahlquist the president of pontiac s west coast public relations agency answered his office telephone in sherman oaks california. 1982 pontiac trans am as kitt the knight industries two thousand as seen in the universal studios hit tv show knight rider. The 1982 pontiac trans am marked the beginning of the third generation firebird. Two star wars movies had been released within the previous 5 years.

Distance travel outside dallas tx. The timing for introducing the show knight rider in 1982 was perfect. The hope was that show business would embrace the trans am and that s just what it did. The character of kitt knight industries two thousand in the original knight rider series was physically embodied as a modified 1982 pontiac trans am.

How knight rider s kitt became a pontiac trans am. After the caller confirmed he was speaking to the president of vista group he said be at the pmt lot this afternoon at 4 p m. Before i began the conversion i made sure to find a car that had a solid body inside and out and this one fit the bill. When universal studios approached pontiac to feature the 1982 pontiac trans am in their new tv show knight rider pontiac jumped right on board.

However pontiac s promotion manager jim graham thought the show sounded corny and didn t want the car to be associated with it. This aversion to placing the trans am in the show wasn t shared by everyone at pontiac.