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Ok, I don't know if this will be helpful at all, but I will tell you this: I've never been on the NBC/Universal payroll, but I did work for most of the major studios, was on the contractor access list, and had free roam of the studio whenever I was there. I can verify that there was indeed a KITT firebird on the lot, and it was almost always parked either in Transportation (the first lot you were in), or out on the Tour (where the Jurassic Park and FatF vehicles are). I'm a little fuzzy on this part, but if I remember right, the Paint Shop
There's a kit car in the middle of the park when I went to the kid I was always told it was an original screen used car on the tour that was over 35 years ago
That was fun. I worked on the Universal Lot at various times in my career in the 90's. I don't think I had ever heard the tale of the buried KITT. That was cool.
I got a lead for you. There is a Car Museum in Gatlinburg TN that I have seen a screen used KITT. It was the car used when KITT drove by himself because you could see the steering wheel in the back seat and a camera monitor so the driver could see. Hope this helps!
That KITT isn’t there anymore. They got rid of him a few years ago. My wife and I went a couple months ago, and they told me that they removed it for fast and furious cars 🙄
@@corywhite3188 yeah the FnF stuff was there when I went years ago. Sat in a eclipse they used for the first film. Though I thought that they had a second location in Florida? May be mistaken
Fascinating stuff! I was having visions of you stumbling into a big empty warehouse in complete darkness when all of sudden a distant scanner illuminates and begins darting from side to side before menacingly drawing closer to you! Be careful mate, that lost car could be KARR! 😊
The second you said basement, visions of Pee Wee's Big Adventure popped into my head. I must admit, I wasn't on-board with all the KR nostalgia at first (preferring C64/computing content)... but darned if you haven't made it interesting and sucked us into your obsession. Good job.
I'm 49 now, but when knight rider was a current TV show we visited universal on a holiday from the U.K and they had one of those cars for people to sit in and it would talk to you. I have a picture here somewhere of me in it that my dad took, it was such a shiny black car you can see my dads reflection in the paint as he took the picture. I wonder if that's the car people are talking about possibly being in storage, maybe it would make more sense as to why it possibly survived ?
Newhall Ave and Sierra behind the Chevron gas station a guy has an extensive collection of unique vehicles. Someone told me back in the day that guy worked on a lot of stuff for the studios. He might have what you're in search of..
Thanks for the "not kitt" pointer. I was thinking wouldn't it be funny if the covered car was Kitt all along until that popped it. Another cracking video.
This was such a well presented show. The obvious love for the car and the show as a whole is obvious and to learn things about Knight Rider is always a good thing. Nice work my man 👏
I took the tour back in July when I went for the first time, and I did not see KIT, if I had, I would have taken 50 pics lol, not a big car guy, but I loved Knight Rider.
Ooooh! Wouldn't that be exciting to find this KITT car? You know since you've been on this quest I'm getting more excited and interested in learning more about this car, and I hope you find it! The question that I have, is that if someone has the car and their moving it around and hiding it, that there is already someone that has claim to it and might have plans to take it out of there.
I am a huge KR fan and my younger brother got am opportunity to visit family in the USA in the late 80's. He gave me a photo of when he visited Universal Studios and saw KITT on display.
I can confirm kitt was there back in 2010, i spent an hour frozen reliving my childhood while staring at it , i didnt want to leave , leaving was so painful, it was parked near the water world set .
I might be confused but wasn’t the hard top from the studio tour used by The Hoff for his tour in the late 90s and is now at Universals German HQ in Frankfurt.
A fun adventure, you are so lucky, for a moment i was a young kid again shouting please be in the box. I would still love to goto the site where KITT and KARR had their last battle in hope to find something
@@devcybiko my point is that the Capone safe was empty and I do hope that Perifractic does find the car and not an empty storage. To state the bloody obvious
Surely they must have a show vehicle storage area somewhere? I mean, I can understand failing to find K.I.T.T. - but where are the all the modern custom show cars at Universal?
Someone owns it now, there's another dude on youtube who does Knight Rider content, if you're on about the stunt car that was a space frame with the Trans Am fibreglass shell as if I'm correct that's the only surving K.I.T.T along with another that someones using as a daily I'm guessing as they had it on their driveway I think I remember them fixing or replacing the lights that are sunk into the bumper, I went down a rabbit hole at one point to do with Knight Rider and also whether someone does a K.I.T.T kit that also has Turbo Persuit mode for the Trans Am and through me searching that I just ended up getting suggestions on related videos and I watched someone, I think there was suggestions of another one that was also used as K.A.R.R. too as they went down a whole video of them searching for the different types of paint on the body work, maybe have a look on the Vinwiki videos wouldn't be surprised if it's someone connected to them, I'll try have a look if I can find the videos still, I think also one that people were confused with for a bit was a RC stunt car they also used but due to the part being so short people didn't realise it was a RC car with a RC Knight Industry Lorrie
Remember the fire about 15 years ago so and it was in the back lot you know the Back to the Future court house burnt down and the King Kong ride was destroyed maybe the car got destroyed as well or was probably moved and got lost in the shuffle
Just thinking out loud but were there any places outside California where Knight Rider was filmed? Maybe the studio used for that location's filming might have a Kitt stored.
im sorry to say that it might have been moved by the video of ppl looks like 90s not a few weeks ago my guess is that 1 of the big bosses could have bought a kitt but after all the rumors he or she probably hidden it because if im not mistaken universal studios is big this is my theories about the survival kitt car or its barriered under old abbonded studio somewhere on Hollywood grounds or someone saw a Pontiac kit version but its just a replica and is a big fan my guess is leads are good but who is the 1 who started it in first place find that person and the newest lead and done team work and time and u shall find it if its any good as 34 yrs un used isnt good for electronics without car like Hasselhoffs kitt which he sold back in 2021 im thinking that it might be David's og kitt double
I am lucky enough to have seen and even sat in the final hero car. It's in the UK and I saw it around 2006/2007 ish when it had just been imported. Was a bit surreal as I assumed it was a replica until I was told nope it was 100% the real deal. After looking at it closer it had all the knight rider studio mods, fuel cell in the trunk, no working tailights etc etc.
@@RetroRecipesand I still can't fine the NBC first knight Rider teaser TV commercial I looked on RUclips videos search engine I can't find it its a desert scene and a Guy in black or blue outfit on pointing to the dukes of hazard general lee orange car saying see this car this was the fastest car ps then something goes by like the flash zoom and we hear cyclone Red eye robot sound and narrator says coming to NBC
@@RetroRecipes welcome pal ps I know I didn't dream it it seems no one saw that first NBC television teaser but i did as a teenager ps I have DVD videos complete collection of knight Rider TV show series episodes plus it has movie of red knight Rider car
I remember going to Universal Hollywood and they had a KITT you could sit inside and talk to it. They had someone on the other end talking to people inside it. If you asked a hard question or something they didn't know, they would say "I'm sorry, I can't answer that." It was the coolest thing. I grew up with KITT and had a Kitt with a Michael action figure and you could pull the license plate and hear pre-recorded sounds of KITT talking. I miss Knight Rider. Thanks for the memories.
I remember doing that as well. I asked him "Are you the old K.I.T.T. or the new K.I.T.T.?" (With the Super Pursuit Mode) and he simply replied "I'm the only K.I.T.T."
haha yea, it was right next to a giant shark hanging upside down! The KITT car was placed on a jetty or something over water, so the wheels were hovering over water, while the driver and passenger door areas were over a walk way that was effectively "where KITT was balanced". Great memories. The last time I saw KITT on the studio lot, after that attraction went away, was on the side of the road where the studio tram would travel, as it did the lower lot tour. If memory serves me well, it's an area that was staged with Jurassic Park type of props as the tram rolls by, where you can see various parts of Jurassic Park being over run by raptors or something...like set dressing type of materials....the cars parked along that road were random. From Jurassic Park vehicles, old police cars, old TV show cars, and at one time...KITT.
If it was the one on a wooden platform on the water, I saw that in 94. But it didn't talk to you and was in poor condition inside the car. But was still great seeing it in person!
@topgrowthexperts I think I went in the mid 80s. That's too bad they stopped doing the interaction. That was part of the mystique, because the voice sounded very similar William Daniels.
The one they maybe talking about is the KITT used as an attraction on the upper lot near the Jaws display. It would make sense that the SFX show building would be a storage.
After 40 years... the odds that KITT could be in storage is actually not that unbelievable. An employee being in the right place at the right time. A facility not fully utilized anymore or a storage location owned by a now defunct entity, which had traded hands. The Automan car is sitting right next to it lol
When I saw that part of the video I thought I just recognised it from the TV show,. Reading your comment made me look again. Damn, it's in 16:9 , that can't be a clip from the show. (The camera angle is excellent. )
At this point, I swear you could make your own convincing KR episode, complete with story, characters and plot. Just call it a fan tribute! Is it even possible to get clearance for that?
I always see so many people on RUclips that get access to the Universal back lot. How do you do that to just walk around and all that? I’m assuming you have to “know people”?
It would be fantastic if you found that car,how did you get clearance to roam round Universal? Knight Rider was also done on stage 4,that is where Devon's office was.Very interesting video ,Peri and excellently put together..Hope your wife and baby are okay.Have you asked the Knight Rider Historians, they may know where that car is?
I went to the universal studios in 1995 and from the UK there was a kit on the lot. You could sit in it. sometimes you got spoken to as well. I have photos of it as well from when we were there and when we sat in it
Awesome video as always, must of been good fun getting to walk about like that. I so hope something turns up and will be keeping an eye out for the next one. So until then you guys keep up the great work and have a great weekend. Take care 🙂
At 4min 27sec that music is from a 'Kitt being rebuilt' episode Im sure it's when kitt sinks in acid and gets rebuilt. When bonnie and the techs are doing some final touches to kit...dam I'm a nerd 😂😂😂. I also remember putting my cold feet as a kid on my commodore 64 power pack in a drafty south London victoria house😂... Don't know why that popped in my head🎉
This feels like a substantial Knight Rider Historians collaboration. Can you share the details of how it came about? Because Joe just recently said rumors of another at the studio were unfounded. I REALLY REALLY REALLY want to know the back (lot) story of what transpired between then and now. Really want it to be true!
Now I know you do (or did) work in 'the movies', but how on earth did you manage to get carte blanche for roaming around their stuff? Whenever I ask people to let me in their basement or attic to find holy grails, I'm kicked out and handed over. I am on probation now.
I think, I kinda remember, overhearing someone at BronyCon say they saw a K.I.T.T in the basement at the Alamo. It was parked next to a red Schwinn DX cruiser.
Call me a conspiracy theorist but I think that someone from the crew parked that there in the hopes that it would be forgotten, and stealthily moved it off the lot
I really hope you manage to find that KITT and I think you're right, if it was left in a Universal Studios parking lot, it would weather and degrade, just like the original Ecto 1 and Ecto 1A from Ghostbusters 1 & 2. I know they restored the original and there were plans to do the 2nd movie car aswell, but so far as I know, it hasn't happened yet. These awesome TV and movie memorabilia pieces will not survive, if they are not in the hands of the fans. That has already been proven so many times, so all power to you man, I sincerely hope you get your hands on one!
I want to thank you for this. The respect and adoration for KnightRider. I loved it when I was a kid. LOL I actually went on to own my now Pontiac Dealership and of course, drove a Trans Am albeit new body style. Now I'm 48, 2 kids, married.....but I watch Knight Rider episodes at least once a week and I love it to this day Man would be amazing to find the lost KITT!!!!!!!!
Screen used unsure but they did have a KITT on the park side of the studios back when we visited in 94but that was 30 years ago and before KR 2000 so......
First of all, congrats on the idea & the execution of it! Second of all, man, every time I see that black silhouette, the feeling, it's... undescribable! I really hope some day you find the last remaining KITT (if there is one)!
My,, childhood,, favorite car, before,,,, my favorite Nissan Skyline GT-R R34 BnR/VspeC,,,, the,, Pontiac firebird trans am,, black edition,, of Knight Rider,, old but gold 🥇🥇🥇
Good luck, I do hope you find it ! 🤞 maybe hunt down the last starfighter star car next 😉 was seen as a prop in one of the bttf movies and was last rumoured to be in France !
Did it ever occur to you to just ask the head of facilities maintenance which buildings had basements, and check out those buildings? Buildings get repurposed there over the decades, and an old SFX builing with a basement in the 1980's might be the accounting building in 2023.
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Ok, I don't know if this will be helpful at all, but I will tell you this: I've never been on the NBC/Universal payroll, but I did work for most of the major studios, was on the contractor access list, and had free roam of the studio whenever I was there. I can verify that there was indeed a KITT firebird on the lot, and it was almost always parked either in Transportation (the first lot you were in), or out on the Tour (where the Jurassic Park and FatF vehicles are).
I'm a little fuzzy on this part, but if I remember right, the Paint Shop
ChatGPT?
There's a kit car in the middle of the park when I went to the kid I was always told it was an original screen used car on the tour that was over 35 years ago
I just came across your channel and watched a few videos already do you have merch or sell merch ?
That was fun. I worked on the Universal Lot at various times in my career in the 90's. I don't think I had ever heard the tale of the buried KITT. That was cool.
I got a lead for you. There is a Car Museum in Gatlinburg TN that I have seen a screen used KITT. It was the car used when KITT drove by himself because you could see the steering wheel in the back seat and a camera monitor so the driver could see. Hope this helps!
That KITT isn’t there anymore. They got rid of him a few years ago. My wife and I went a couple months ago, and they told me that they removed it for fast and furious cars 🙄
@@corywhite3188 yeah the FnF stuff was there when I went years ago. Sat in a eclipse they used for the first film. Though I thought that they had a second location in Florida? May be mistaken
That wasn't a real screen used car either and it never claimed to be. That was a replica for sure and a pretty bad one at that.
It's a fake and was never used.they where all crushed.
@TheA53ford that car was a fake lol
Fascinating stuff! I was having visions of you stumbling into a big empty warehouse in complete darkness when all of sudden a distant scanner illuminates and begins darting from side to side before menacingly drawing closer to you!
Be careful mate, that lost car could be KARR! 😊
I remember that scene from the KARR episode very well, and I was able to visualize it perfectly, which was great!!!... thanks for share !!!
watched that episode with my sons last weekend@@FranGarcia567
The second you said basement, visions of Pee Wee's Big Adventure popped into my head. I must admit, I wasn't on-board with all the KR nostalgia at first (preferring C64/computing content)... but darned if you haven't made it interesting and sucked us into your obsession. Good job.
Thanks for trusting the process
This is so cool! How in the world did you get such unrestricted access at Universal Studios?
Was wondering the same thing.
Looks like a bunch of random shops!
It was definitely worth checking out before the building came down. Thanks for making the time to go out there.
I'm 49 now, but when knight rider was a current TV show we visited universal on a holiday from the U.K and they had one of those cars for people to sit in and it would talk to you. I have a picture here somewhere of me in it that my dad took, it was such a shiny black car you can see my dads reflection in the paint as he took the picture. I wonder if that's the car people are talking about possibly being in storage, maybe it would make more sense as to why it possibly survived ?
Newhall Ave and Sierra behind the Chevron gas station a guy has an extensive collection of unique vehicles. Someone told me back in the day that guy worked on a lot of stuff for the studios. He might have what you're in search of..
Thanks for the "not kitt" pointer. I was thinking wouldn't it be funny if the covered car was Kitt all along until that popped it. Another cracking video.
This was such a well presented show. The obvious love for the car and the show as a whole is obvious and to learn things about Knight Rider is always a good thing. Nice work my man 👏
This video cracks me up, man. I'm from Detroit, so this is like library, kind of material, and it's like soothing or something. It calms my chaos.
I took the tour back in July when I went for the first time, and I did not see KIT, if I had, I would have taken 50 pics lol, not a big car guy, but I loved Knight Rider.
Ooooh! Wouldn't that be exciting to find this KITT car? You know since you've been on this quest I'm getting more excited and interested in learning more about this car, and I hope you find it! The question that I have, is that if someone has the car and their moving it around and hiding it, that there is already someone that has claim to it and might have plans to take it out of there.
Watch the knight rider historians they have a fully refurbished Kitt and truck and are working on the trailer
I am a huge KR fan and my younger brother got am opportunity to visit family in the USA in the late 80's. He gave me a photo of when he visited Universal Studios and saw KITT on display.
I can confirm kitt was there back in 2010, i spent an hour frozen reliving my childhood while staring at it , i didnt want to leave , leaving was so painful, it was parked near the water world set .
I might be confused but wasn’t the hard top from the studio tour used by The Hoff for his tour in the late 90s and is now at Universals German HQ in Frankfurt.
A fun adventure, you are so lucky, for a moment i was a young kid again shouting please be in the box. I would still love to goto the site where KITT and KARR had their last battle in hope to find something
I was with you on the Faulty Towers reference immediately. Such an odd set design (or genius?)
It,s so nice on how Knight rider had telecast bac, in the 80s & each episode was awesome & i don,t know if Goliath is at universal studios as well.
Wow… That was almost as good as Geraldo Rivera finding Al Capone's hidden safe! But much more fun… Keep searching my friend the truth is out there!😊
I hope not! I remember there was nothing in there
@@gerardflach2588 and your point is...? ;)
@@devcybiko my point is that the Capone safe was empty and I do hope that Perifractic does find the car and not an empty storage. To state the bloody obvious
Surely they must have a show vehicle storage area somewhere? I mean, I can understand failing to find K.I.T.T. - but where are the all the modern custom show cars at Universal?
I got to see the screen used convertible KITT at Dezerland Auto museum in Orlando a couple weeks back! It was really cool to see!
Wow you must be special! Given free access to studio lots! Amazing.
I learned it from Spielberg
Oh God the 'wrecking ball' incident - and the train crash - hit me deep in the pit of my stomach! :-O
Someone owns it now, there's another dude on youtube who does Knight Rider content, if you're on about the stunt car that was a space frame with the Trans Am fibreglass shell as if I'm correct that's the only surving K.I.T.T along with another that someones using as a daily I'm guessing as they had it on their driveway I think I remember them fixing or replacing the lights that are sunk into the bumper, I went down a rabbit hole at one point to do with Knight Rider and also whether someone does a K.I.T.T kit that also has Turbo Persuit mode for the Trans Am and through me searching that I just ended up getting suggestions on related videos and I watched someone, I think there was suggestions of another one that was also used as K.A.R.R. too as they went down a whole video of them searching for the different types of paint on the body work, maybe have a look on the Vinwiki videos wouldn't be surprised if it's someone connected to them, I'll try have a look if I can find the videos still, I think also one that people were confused with for a bit was a RC stunt car they also used but due to the part being so short people didn't realise it was a RC car with a RC Knight Industry Lorrie
That video looks fantastic How do you get universal studios 😊
❤❤ interesting video. Love how it feels like a knight rider episode
You might have better luck locating the Ark of the Covenant, for that matter, they may both be in the same warehouse! 🤣
I wish you're the best of luck in your search awesome video.
In colona Illinois there is and or was 2 kitt original screen used cars.
Remember the fire about 15 years ago so and it was in the back lot you know the Back to the Future court house burnt down and the King Kong ride was destroyed maybe the car got destroyed as well or was probably moved and got lost in the shuffle
I was at universal in 2012 and there was that K.I.T.T in yhe universal tour, it has ti be there.....
Looks like michael and kitt are buried forever! 😂😂
5:05 yes thats it. thats why they all look same when its filmed there
i think the knight rider historians on you tube have this under controll... :)
0:42
Not the Beverly Hills Cop and Knight Rider mash up
hi K.I.T.T is the best car for any sc-fi and the Liberator is the best space ship which is from Blake's 7 they are the best ever
Just thinking out loud but were there any places outside California where Knight Rider was filmed? Maybe the studio used for that location's filming might have a Kitt stored.
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werent all the car driving scenes done i studio in front of a green screen ?
6:26 looks like the Batmobile 😀
❤❤❤great job
im sorry to say that it might have been moved by the video of ppl looks like 90s not a few weeks ago my guess is that 1 of the big bosses could have bought a kitt but after all the rumors he or she probably hidden it because if im not mistaken universal studios is big this is my theories about the survival kitt car or its barriered under old abbonded studio somewhere on Hollywood grounds or someone saw a Pontiac kit version but its just a replica and is a big fan my guess is leads are good but who is the 1 who started it in first place find that person and the newest lead and done team work and time and u shall find it if its any good as 34 yrs un used isnt good for electronics without car like Hasselhoffs kitt which he sold back in 2021 im thinking that it might be David's og kitt double
What i want to know is where is part 4 of kittesla??
Still in the making... it's an expensive project and takes time to save up for each part :)
How did you manage to gain access to the back lots etc? Is it because you're a real actor etc? :)
Devon arranged it
You live the dream my friend!
Who ever is voicing KITT on this video is absolutely fantastic!!! So close to William Daniels!!!
Don't Give up my friend
Did you think of asking Babs?
We always love collaborating with you!
Cheers chaps! We'll find him!
@@RetroRecipesHim? I thought you were looking for a car/prop.
@@Joesmusclecargarage In the TV show Knight Rider KITT is referred to as "he/him".
The plot really thickens. You can just tell, it's going to be a DeLorean hunt next !! 😄
If he does, he has to get the Bank of America, gold, 24k Delorean.
We need the deLorean first, to go back in time and save the KITTs! 😄
@@thomashenden71 The simplicity of your vision is Genius !! 😄
I didn't know about that one.@@MacNifty
oh yes. would LOVE a delorean...
I am lucky enough to have seen and even sat in the final hero car. It's in the UK and I saw it around 2006/2007 ish when it had just been imported. Was a bit surreal as I assumed it was a replica until I was told nope it was 100% the real deal. After looking at it closer it had all the knight rider studio mods, fuel cell in the trunk, no working tailights etc etc.
We really need to see a meetup with David Hasselhoff one of these days!
I'd be so starstruck! But I would like to have a spin in KITTesla - the real life modern self-driving in-car-nation of KITT.
@@RetroRecipesand I still can't fine the NBC first knight Rider teaser TV commercial I looked on RUclips videos search engine I can't find it its a desert scene and a Guy in black or blue outfit on pointing to the dukes of hazard general lee orange car saying see this car this was the fastest car ps then something goes by like the flash zoom and we hear cyclone Red eye robot sound and narrator says coming to NBC
@@RetroRecipes welcome pal ps I know I didn't dream it it seems no one saw that first NBC television teaser but i did as a teenager ps I have DVD videos complete collection of knight Rider TV show series episodes plus it has movie of red knight Rider car
I thought David Hasselhoff had one of the original Kitt Cars.
@@BikerDon i think he did plus his answreing machine he says has the knight rider tv theme song
I remember going to Universal Hollywood and they had a KITT you could sit inside and talk to it. They had someone on the other end talking to people inside it. If you asked a hard question or something they didn't know, they would say "I'm sorry, I can't answer that." It was the coolest thing. I grew up with KITT and had a Kitt with a Michael action figure and you could pull the license plate and hear pre-recorded sounds of KITT talking. I miss Knight Rider. Thanks for the memories.
I was there! It was actually a guy in a wooden tower or something that would see you and talk back through KITT in a radio
I remember doing that as well. I asked him "Are you the old K.I.T.T. or the new K.I.T.T.?" (With the Super Pursuit Mode) and he simply replied "I'm the only K.I.T.T."
haha yea, it was right next to a giant shark hanging upside down! The KITT car was placed on a jetty or something over water, so the wheels were hovering over water, while the driver and passenger door areas were over a walk way that was effectively "where KITT was balanced". Great memories.
The last time I saw KITT on the studio lot, after that attraction went away, was on the side of the road where the studio tram would travel, as it did the lower lot tour. If memory serves me well, it's an area that was staged with Jurassic Park type of props as the tram rolls by, where you can see various parts of Jurassic Park being over run by raptors or something...like set dressing type of materials....the cars parked along that road were random. From Jurassic Park vehicles, old police cars, old TV show cars, and at one time...KITT.
If it was the one on a wooden platform on the water, I saw that in 94. But it didn't talk to you and was in poor condition inside the car. But was still great seeing it in person!
@topgrowthexperts I think I went in the mid 80s. That's too bad they stopped doing the interaction. That was part of the mystique, because the voice sounded very similar William Daniels.
Have you checked out Stages 30+32? They used to be the '2010' special effects stages from 1984
Interesting
also check with the building managers for all the basements, that can make it a bit quicker
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Thank you for your kind words! Means a lot 👍🕹
@@RetroRecipes thank you for taking the time reading my comments and responding back & 👍liking😁🌐✌
The one they maybe talking about is the KITT used as an attraction on the upper lot near the Jaws display. It would make sense that the SFX show building would be a storage.
Nah the Knight Rider Historians already own that one :)
I was wondering the same thing- I sat in that KITT back in the 90s! Someone out of sight would talk to you as KITT through the car, it was fun.
After 40 years... the odds that KITT could be in storage is actually not that unbelievable. An employee being in the right place at the right time. A facility not fully utilized anymore or a storage location owned by a now defunct entity, which had traded hands. The Automan car is sitting right next to it lol
How cool arriving at the studios in the Car. Someone has friends in high places for that access. Devon did well getting you in.
When I saw that part of the video I thought I just recognised it from the TV show,.
Reading your comment made me look again. Damn, it's in 16:9 , that can't be a clip from the show.
(The camera angle is excellent. )
At this point, I swear you could make your own convincing KR episode, complete with story, characters and plot. Just call it a fan tribute! Is it even possible to get clearance for that?
Universal Studios he in the studio's with replica car and dressed like Michael I think too? what more was there left to do ?
I always see so many people on RUclips that get access to the Universal back lot. How do you do that to just walk around and all that? I’m assuming you have to “know people”?
it isn't buried but it is in their wherehouse of Movie/TV cars. Might return out of the wherehouse but definatly bit buried.
It would be fantastic if you found that car,how did you get clearance to roam round Universal?
Knight Rider was also done on stage 4,that is where Devon's office was.Very interesting video ,Peri and excellently put together..Hope your wife and baby are okay.Have you asked the Knight Rider Historians, they may know where that car is?
I went to the universal studios in 1995 and from the UK there was a kit on the lot. You could sit in it. sometimes you got spoken to as well. I have photos of it as well from when we were there and when we sat in it
Awesome video as always, must of been good fun getting to walk about like that. I so hope something turns up and will be keeping an eye out for the next one. So until then you guys keep up the great work and have a great weekend. Take care 🙂
At 4min 27sec that music is from a 'Kitt being rebuilt' episode Im sure it's when kitt sinks in acid and gets rebuilt. When bonnie and the techs are doing some final touches to kit...dam I'm a nerd 😂😂😂. I also remember putting my cold feet as a kid on my commodore 64 power pack in a drafty south London victoria house😂... Don't know why that popped in my head🎉
This feels like a substantial Knight Rider Historians collaboration. Can you share the details of how it came about? Because Joe just recently said rumors of another at the studio were unfounded. I REALLY REALLY REALLY want to know the back (lot) story of what transpired between then and now. Really want it to be true!
Joe may have been saying that based on the outcome of this visit that I made, but we're not ruling it out quite yet. That car is _somewhere_
@@RetroRecipes How can we help?
Good sir, you must become a guardian of a kit. It is the way.
Look... KRH found the Semi and the Trailer, so don't give up on this K.I.T.T. car, you're going to find it aswell 😊
David Hasselhoff Pulls Up In K.I.T.T. Car From "Knight Rider at the Kelly Clarson Show he has the car its on a youtube video😎
Fantastic adventure and my goodness you take politeness to a new level. Thank you so much for this fantastic episode and good luck on your quest!!!!
Now I know you do (or did) work in 'the movies', but how on earth did you manage to get carte blanche for roaming around their stuff? Whenever I ask people to let me in their basement or attic to find holy grails, I'm kicked out and handed over. I am on probation now.
I think, I kinda remember, overhearing someone at BronyCon say they saw a K.I.T.T in the basement at the Alamo. It was parked next to a red Schwinn DX cruiser.
I heard the same thing. It's definitely in the basement of The Alamo.
Where’s “The Alamo”?
You made it as enjoyable to watch as a real knight rider episode. This is a brillant editing, congratulations 👏
Wow thank you for such a high compliment!
@@RetroRecipes That IS a high compliment...and yes, you really really did...take it from us!
@@KRHExclusives That means a LOT! Thank you!
Proper Car Boxes? Portable Camera Batteries? Partly Closed Backlots? (Just a few more PCB ideas for this one? LOL). Or People Carrying Balloons?
It's Emotionally crushing that the SPM cars were smooshed. AJ and Joe know of at least 28 cars were used. Yes the 4000 was also on that very street.
Is that AJ from Knight Rider Historians doing the KITT voice??
Not quite but you're closer than you think!
Call me a conspiracy theorist but I think that someone from the crew parked that there in the hopes that it would be forgotten, and stealthily moved it off the lot
🎉.....you oughta look into whatever happened to the miniature KITTs used in Knight Rider....👍👍👍😁
Had a lot of fun in this treasure hunt! Can't wait to hear about the other leads you got on this.
Knightrider predicted the world we all live in in nowadays..... driverless cars! 😲😱 Amazing isn't it.
i think Knight Rider Historians have alot of the orginal stuff
Wow man, how did you get such access! Incredible, this is why I come to RUclips. Can't see this stuff anywhere else!
Sporting that KRH shirt was awesome! 👍 You gotta look for a set of doors that say "Experiment 3" 😉😁
I was getting a bit excited there when you found that box!…brill video..thanks
If people are looking for a delorean just check ebay
I really hope you manage to find that KITT and I think you're right, if it was left in a Universal Studios parking lot, it would weather and degrade, just like the original Ecto 1 and Ecto 1A from Ghostbusters 1 & 2. I know they restored the original and there were plans to do the 2nd movie car aswell, but so far as I know, it hasn't happened yet. These awesome TV and movie memorabilia pieces will not survive, if they are not in the hands of the fans. That has already been proven so many times, so all power to you man, I sincerely hope you get your hands on one!
I want to thank you for this. The respect and adoration for KnightRider. I loved it when I was a kid. LOL I actually went on to own my now Pontiac Dealership and of course, drove a Trans Am albeit new body style. Now I'm 48, 2 kids, married.....but I watch Knight Rider episodes at least once a week and I love it to this day Man would be amazing to find the lost KITT!!!!!!!!
Great video but for me, my dream is to drive K.A.R.R. Will there still be any model of KIT’s most dangerous enemy?
Screen used unsure but they did have a KITT on the park side of the studios back when we visited in 94but that was 30 years ago and before KR 2000 so......
PCB stands for Proper Car Bits, classic. Shame you didn’t unearth anything, keep going though.
Raiders of the Lost Kitt.😁👍
Great title idea and thanks so much for the support Gregory - it really helps the channel continue. Cheers!
First of all, congrats on the idea & the execution of it!
Second of all, man, every time I see that black silhouette, the feeling, it's... undescribable!
I really hope some day you find the last remaining KITT (if there is one)!
go to David house and see if he will sell you the car
How did you get such great access to the property? 😊
To be able to stand in Courthouse Square on the back lot would be a dream come true
After all the films it's been in, it's iconic
My,, childhood,, favorite car, before,,,, my favorite Nissan Skyline GT-R R34 BnR/VspeC,,,, the,, Pontiac firebird trans am,, black edition,, of Knight Rider,, old but gold 🥇🥇🥇
Rappers own a few kitt cars and one comedian
Good luck, I do hope you find it ! 🤞 maybe hunt down the last starfighter star car next 😉 was seen as a prop in one of the bttf movies and was last rumoured to be in France !
Did it ever occur to you to just ask the head of facilities maintenance which buildings had basements, and check out those buildings? Buildings get repurposed there over the decades, and an old SFX builing with a basement in the 1980's might be the accounting building in 2023.