I remember that. But I also remember them mentioning it in the show. "We've made improvements to KITT..."

One thing I do remember is the red light on KITT's dash that blinked every time he said something. In the beginning is was just one large red light. By the end of the show's run, it was a three columns of red LED's.

 

That was actually a great read Taz!

Can you believe that original car was "left in the open" - basically abandoned in Australia. Ownership wasn 't registered for years and who ever had possession of it for over a decade was considered the owner. The car still exists with many modification that haven't been accounted for, done by uncounted anonimous owners. But the best is that it spent a few years as a courtesy car at a Puerto Rican resort and nobody knew what it even was!

 

I don't know if enough people are familiar enough with Vanishing Point for that to be a famous Challenger, but it's famous in my mind. The Monkees GTO didn't have a big enough supercharger for my tastes.

If you had to make a list of the most famous cars in my opinion... they really come from the late 70's, it seems. The Smokey and the Bandit Trans Am lasts forever, the General Lee is famous. Starsky and Hutch was popular in its day, but I don't know about now... Herbie the VW was famous. I really love that set of vehicles from cars. Pretty cool that someone made those.

 

The Merf Mobile from Wayne's World.

 

It actually went through 3 versions. During the first season, KITT's "mouth" ("Voice Modulator") in the interior of the vehicle was a flashing red square with 4 buttons on each side. In episode 14 "Heart of Stone", this was changed to three sectioned vertical bars (still with 4 buttons on each side), as this design proved popular with fans as part of KARR. (KARR used a bright green display with an inner bar that expanded outward and two outer bars that expanded from both ends inward, whereas KITT's was red and all three bars expanded outward from the center, but with greater magnitude in the center bar). In latter seasons the entire dash was improved with the "Voice Modulator" staying three sectioned vertical bars (although looking a little different) but it now had 5 buttons on each side.

The 4 button version:


The 5 button version:

 

Don't forget the King of Customs - George Barris creations...

 

I watched a show on tv recently about George Barris and his customs. Apparantly they were only designed to look good on the tv or movie screen. Up close in person you can easily see they were just pieced together with little regard for fine details. Kinda ruined my image of his work.

 

Its understandable if alot of them got wrecked/ damaged. No point building a show car if your gonna drive it through a building haha.

 

Did anyone mention this one? Another one of my faves.

 

The Beverly Hillbillys' truck