Is a Screen Used Knight Rider KITT Buried under Universal Studios?
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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.
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".
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 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.
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
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 KZhead 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 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
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 🙂
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
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
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!
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)!
Had a lot of fun in this treasure hunt! Can't wait to hear about the other leads you got on this.
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 ?
It was definitely worth checking out before the building came down. Thanks for making the time to go out there.
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. )
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
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!!!!
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.
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.
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
That is incredible to get access like that! Good job putting this together
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
First video of your and you sir have earned a new subscriber. Thankyou sooo much for keeping this legend alive. There needs to be a night rider comeback. My opinion best tv show i watched as a child. Still rewatching then to this day. Never gets old 😁
Having KITT do the "PCBWayyyyyyyy" promo was fantastic.
🤔These Knight Rider episodes of yours are the best thing on KZhead right now is my personal opinion but other people have their own🤷♂️🌐✌
Thank you for your kind words! Means a lot 👍🕹
@@RetroRecipes thank you for taking the time reading my comments and responding back & 👍liking😁🌐✌
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..
Your production quality it's outstanding, I was wishing you to have KITT just to have those PERFECT shots :)
Lounging around alone in the backlot area is a dream in itself. If you’re looking for someone to hold an umbrella or carry your backpack next time - I’m your man!!😅 Great video - I enjoyed it very much! 🎉
Absolutely amazing edits especially into the studio.
Keep up the faith Peri...youll find one. Great intros to these KITT videos
I was getting a bit excited there when you found that box!…brill video..thanks
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!
You have no idea how excited I was watching this. 👏🏻
Loved the free, tour of the under belly of universal. I Was Hyped, That you was going pull, surprise out of the hat.😆 Good Luck, with the treasure hunt.
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!
When you looked at that electrical room I had flash back of Trust Doesn’t Rust! lmao. Another great video my friend. Keep it up!
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?
Wow man, how did you get such access! Incredible, this is why I come to KZhead. Can't see this stuff anywhere else!
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.
Fantastic episode! Thanks for the good vibes! Retrobatteries recharged - for now...
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 ?
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”?
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
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?
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!
This is so exciting, hope you find it in the future.
Proper Car Boxes? Portable Camera Batteries? Partly Closed Backlots? (Just a few more PCB ideas for this one? LOL). Or People Carrying Balloons?
Greetings from Italy, I thank you for this video which also shows the Universal studios... and where Kitt was born... a hug for this pearl of video.
Sporting that KRH shirt was awesome! 👍 You gotta look for a set of doors that say "Experiment 3" 😉😁
This is supercool and I'm just a few minutes in...! I love this Peri!
Yesss!
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.
PCB Waaaay from KITT. Well done, sir. Well done. 👏👏👏
I was with you on the Faulty Towers reference immediately. Such an odd set design (or genius?)
Gr8 video , I would love to find my Knight rider watch from back in the day. I have a feeling though I never got it back of my teacher when the theme tune went off during a lesson 😊😅
Aww man you had my heart racing at the big wooden crate part 😂
Imagine how I felt!
Calm down.
That may have been where they kept the dragon from the Adventures of Conan show that used to have. It would rise from a pit to on stage and visible to the audience.
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!!!!!!!!
I miss Night Rider. There used to be a tribute car driving around my childhood city. It was always a happy time when we saw it. There was also a General Lee homemade tribute car. I think the two car owners knew each other because they were in the same neighbourhood.
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
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🎉
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 !
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.
That was one of the best things that I've seen online in a very....very....long time!
Thank you for your kind words! Means a lot 👍🕹
How amazing of Universal to let you waddle around there!
They're the best!
Devon pulled some strings. That British accent works miracles!
Oh my, this is cool. And if they ever do another remake, you are Michael Knight!
Thank you. One man can make a difference...
This was my favorite show growing up to own one would be a dream come true nice video and good luck
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 .
This is so cool to watch your knight rider videos
Quality video thanks a lot man great feeling to it
Raiders of the Lost Kitt.😁👍
Great title idea and thanks so much for the support Gregory - it really helps the channel continue. Cheers!
Dude in Lehigh county PA has an immaculate screen accurate KITT. Lives either in Macungie or Emmaus. It's freaking incredible.
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 😊
K.i.t.t is a boss, classic show back in the days , would love to see a movie sometime soon 😮😊
Iv seen one only last year parked in Newtown Sydney Australia. An old couple were driving it. I was a fan in the day and stopped to check it out. Never seen another one around.
🎉.....you oughta look into whatever happened to the miniature KITTs used in Knight Rider....👍👍👍😁
Great video! When exploring Universal, you didn't happen to see a Police Box did you? The amazing TARDIS prop from the 1996 TV Movie has been missing since production ended. Rumours are that Philip Segal, the producer, has it but he's never confirmed that...
I did not, but time will tell...
The Auto Experience at Dezerland Park in Orlando has two Kitt cars and from what we were told one was used by David Hasselhoff for promotional stuff. They also have the water version of Kitt from the Knight Rider 3000 movie where it’s basically the red car body on a boat frame with motor in back. 👍
The real convertable one too.
Hey, you have a great channel here :-) I'm from Germany, about 80 miles away from me there is a car dealer that deals in supercars and hypercars. And it is also the official Koenigsegg Germany branch. Some time ago, they had an original used KITT in their vehicle inventory for sale. Unfortunately, I don't know where this car is right now. And I don't know if this message helps you in any way, but I have been one of the biggest Knight Rider fans since I was a child. That's why I can 100% empathize with your great desire to own an original KITT. For me this will always remain a dream, as unfortunately I have been suffering from a very serious illness and my time here is only limited because it can't be fixed anymore. Sorry for my less than perfect English, all the medication has made me a bit forgetful, so I'm trying to watch a lot more videos that are in English and combat that. I wish you from the bottom of my heart that your dream comes true. As a viewer, you really notice how much love you put into your videos and your Knight Rider passion. Many kind regards from Germany
Very sorry about your illness. Take care. From New York USA
Never saw a screen used Kitt. but I saw a screen used Dukes of Hazard Charger in David Jones (or Myers) Adelaide Australia. I wonder if they ever bothered shipping it back to the states.
In Gatlinburg TN, they have a rear driver with wheel behind the driver seat. The place is called Star Cars.
I got to ride in the real Kitt Saturday at my friends event. Was so awesome and got it on film.
❤❤ interesting video. Love how it feels like a knight rider episode
i think Knight Rider Historians have alot of the orginal stuff
It’s funny you mentioned the crossover episode where KITT was in the same vicinity as Marty. That same episode guest stared an Robbie Rist also know as the series killer. Remember he was cousin Oliver on the Brady Bunch. Maybe it’s in the basement of the Alamo?
I love KITT, he was so funny and charismatic during the Knight rider series. I hope he is still around, as a woman who was born in the 80s, it will be a huge relief. KITT if I could I would recuperate you right now and call you my own until the day I die ❤❤❤❤❤
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.
Oh God the 'wrecking ball' incident - and the train crash - hit me deep in the pit of my stomach! :-O
I love this channel 🤗 Greets from Germany 👋
Many years ago possibly late 80s early 90s, there was a supposed screen used kitt on display at the Royal Melbourne show. It had a kitt voice track on repeat, and I was rather upset as a child i couldnt really sit in it and play with the buttons. If i hunt through all childhood photo albums I may even have a photo, but it was a long time ago.
I wonder if some person who works at Universal occasionally drives his replica KITT (or maybe just an old mid-70 to 80s firebird or trans am) to work a few times a year and sets off a series of sightings.
Great Episode, Hope you find your dream machine.
Good sir, you must become a guardian of a kit. It is the way.
I also want a kit car but I also want the General Lee and the fall guy Chevy truck. Good luck on your search
Great video. Do you know where I can listen to the in episode music? (not the main theme, but the music used in different scenes in Knight Rider). Thanks.
This was a great Episode of Knight Rider :D
Wow you must be special! Given free access to studio lots! Amazing.
I learned it from Spielberg
Really interesting video thank you
So missed this show. @7:15 that was a good suspense music.