MK5 Golf GTI
General => Random Chat => Topic started by: stealthwolf on August 22, 2010, 08:08:16 pm
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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:
(https://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fdaz.co%2Fmedia%2Fv55%2Fstealthwolf%2FIMG_1493.jpg&hash=0783a38e6dd9a05311e41dbd45738d354d705865)
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:
(https://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fdaz.co%2Fmedia%2Fv55%2Fstealthwolf%2Fknight_rider_intro.jpg&hash=ec5ee56ac8d1ea66fafea43154d8da7ea4e72951)
Took a few pics:
(https://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fdaz.co%2Fmedia%2Fv55%2Fstealthwolf%2FIMG_1489.jpg&hash=1b11f676dd8b4a52945ef1d84d2c638658c14309)
(https://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fdaz.co%2Fmedia%2Fv55%2Fstealthwolf%2FIMG_1494.jpg&hash=930022ea1e0e93b9c84e1ae18e0e15f8321c39be)
(https://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fdaz.co%2Fmedia%2Fv55%2Fstealthwolf%2FIMG_1492.jpg&hash=29dd0dd33f62cf91afb6f897ffc59ec5f25c4d6d)
(https://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fdaz.co%2Fmedia%2Fv55%2Fstealthwolf%2FIMG_1490.jpg&hash=4c72ef1e8eaf65f488b2ffe0ffa5df653a1adb97)
(https://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fdaz.co%2Fmedia%2Fv55%2Fstealthwolf%2FIMG_1491.jpg&hash=bc6d3680b254273e41125087af4c951e36b9684a)
(https://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fdaz.co%2Fmedia%2Fv55%2Fstealthwolf%2Fmichael_kitt.jpg&hash=cdc682d436b4d843ac48208ab961dbfaadd68646)
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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But did you see `the Hoff` ?
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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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Bandit car was a bit of an earlier version, but that's an ACE find!!! I'd have licked it.
(https://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.classicautotags.com%2Fimages%2Fburt_on_bandit_car_300_size_i1yx.jpg&hash=48d5ac4ba8cae1ce249838c27f865e0cf9916367)
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i know that there is one in bradford and i know where it lives :laugh:
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cracking effort stealth, super pursuit mode FTMFW!!
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Nice find MICHEAL! Where were you?
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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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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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the orig kit in knight rider is in Kesick with a few other famous cars its only up the road from me
http://www.carsofthestars.com/cots.html
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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.
(https://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fdaz.co%2Fmedia%2Fv55%2Fstealthwolf%2Fsmokey3.jpg&hash=631d0aeab29876981e4c82b49223d0efe4e975d3)
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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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.