Not a KITT fan but like seeing this kind of stuff or anything you record. I enjoy watching every single video you upload. You’re super fucking cool Bob
Man Bob it’s so wonderful that you are such a Virgo Perfectionist regarding your build. The air conditioning vents are something that are mandatory that other builders should have done before. But it’s great to see you incorporate that in your builds. Are the noses the right length too? Lots were made that are too long. It’s a pity that you don’t want to do A-TEAM-VANS anymore. I personally love the Red and Black also:) ❤🖤❤🖤❤
Wow, Video Bob, I have 10½ years on you. You have many years left in you. I feel like I have myself. This was a tedious video for you. Keep them coming.
I’m the same type of person as you - a nit picking pain in the ass Virgo that insists on perfection, so I agree with you :) This was a great episode Bob because it was a personal stream of consciousnesses, like we were in the same room and your honesty comes through 👍
Bob said “This is my car and I’m going to keep it.” Do we take a shot after that? 😅 Anyway, great work as always. Even the Knight Rider Historians would go on for hours about trying to match screen accurate.
At 30:45 in use that Gap as your vent! Get some black slats and it will be angled right at your body vertically. You can even slice off a quarter inch of the television bracket and it'll be a larger vent in a large V shape. I bet that would be cool. 80s caddilacs had vertical ones similar to that (much larger of course.)
Hey Bob. Loyal subscriber here (Ray Sheffield). I believe you can run a smaller diameter vac hose inside the lower portion of the trans tunnel console and utalize the small vent covers and turn them to point upwards and you'll get air flow up towards your face.
Hi I always enjoy your videos especially of the Knight Rider cars you creat your not really a car modification garage your more of an artist that's what you produce in my opinion car art and for art you pay the price to own, If I wanted a car built for me I would pick out everything I liked from all the cars in each series and put them in one car for me, who gives a shit about screen accuracy bull-shit that's not what owning one of these is about its about you feeling special every time you sit in it, i would not hesitate paying you 75k to build me s car some day maybe I will once I have that amount of money.
Looks authentic to me especially when done. One thing nobody can take from Bob is his knowledge of building movie reproductions cars. I’ve always thought they looked on point to the real ones
Hey Bob, just to give you some accuracy I on a 1992 Pontiac Firebird formula black with T tops and it does come with a 5.7 L from the factory. It’s a very rare option. It has a factory L 98 in it.
my .02? Put a mesh grille between the tv's and the gauges, and run the A/C there. As a 3rd Gen Firebird Aficionado (my 1st car was a black/black 83 trans Am T-Top, my current car is a 1990 Formula 350 T-Top), I could could tell you tons of things about them, and the fact that you could get a 350 T-Top from the factory in 1987, 1989 and 1990 (But only with an automatic). In 91-92 you could only get a T-Top 350 (Automatic) Formula, but they had the Trans Am/GTA lace wheels in black instead of the factory Formula wheels when optioned as such to conform to some CAFE requirement. The 87+ dash wiring harnesses are all equipped with the plugs for the different available options, even if they did not come with them. Looking at that car in what I could see in your video, one of those plugs would have been for the Rear Defroster. GM discontinued the rear wiper option after 86.
Plastic texture wrapped aluminum in the actual prop. Check out Knight Rider Historians. you can see how what was in the actual prop survives heat, it doesn't. You do not want a real car to fall apart like happened with the actual parts that were on screen Bob MUST do better for it to survive Vegas even with the window tinting. 80% of the time KITT was doing stunts there weren't pods in the car being used because you do not want that distraction on 2 wheel driving ;p I look forward to you living to 100 Bob with other people helping you get things together for the love of the props.
Love the video. Love that somebody finally says it about screen accuracy Thanks for sharing the video, and wish you well Can’t wait to see it when it’s done Cheers Bob from Australia 👍👍
Love your VOX area, as far as the way your Air, Oil, P1 etc. I absolutely hate when they are put in separate and you can see the line breaks. And yes you have to get those overlays straight. Also last thing, Dude you have to put the pods in!💪🏼🙌🏼. In my 20's, I did a 1/2 and a 3/4 season. Sold them both! I love seeing that people are still doing it though! Thats a nice looking dash though. Keep on doing your thing man. 💪🏼💯🙌🏼
The only fake thing about the show is that K.I.T.T couldnt really talk. It's amazing that people came up with a way to make him respond to each owner of the cars they build. I think my fav dash has to be season two. Just love it grew up with the show in the 80s always watched it!
Utilise the gap to vent the air through and find some sort of trim/vent piece to make it look factory. WRT the panels, IMO the lines should be vertical with the world.
I loved Knight Rider. When you watch Knight Rider Historians channel, even their screen used original KITT isn’t perfect. They are doing great with their screen used Knight Rider semi as well. Bob it’s your car, do what you think works. Most people don’t really care. They just love to see these cars.
@RobertMoseley Regarding those lines, leave it. I honestly think it looks great, speaking as an engineer starting in an analog world. I would see it time to time in precision measurement equipment used to calibrate other equipment and it always irked me. Then you learn it’s intentional to avoid “scope creep” based on the engineers view of a gauge. When you realize it’s crooked because it’s accounted for depending on the angle of a human head and eye; it stops being annoying. And to me, the fact it isn’t perfectly straight and they go away from each other, it looks well engineered. Consider the Taj Mahal. If the spires were perfectly straight, the Mosque would appear to be smaller… They are tilted outward, which provides an illusion that they are straight. Also to ensure they fall away from the mosque in the event of earthquake or failure.
What a dream car, don't know if you are having Kitts voice but all the new AI voice replica technology out now you can get William Daniels to say or sing anything you want, get him to say "Get your hands off the the Fxxxxxg car" when some tit starts touching it.
I’ve thought of wanting to build one and always want to make the various buttons and switches actually do the basic operations that they block or cover, I’d also use modern touch screens and reverse cameras hooked up to them with a couple of those throw back video game models installed to play (of course only in park)
How are the electronics made for kitt to actually match the speed of the car, the rpms, the odometer, the electricity etc. Id love to know when i build my kitt in the future
The key to getting the overlays straight and right is to make sure that A the upper and the lower contact line are flush to each other and that the angles to the adjecent overlay are identical top / bottom and absolutely opposite to each other. It takes a lot of time but it's worth the effort.
Im in the process of building a kitt myself. Very early stages and by no means a pro and maybe have bitten off way more than i can chew. But, i want to make the dash buttons as functional as possible. How cool would it be to use the auto cruise for your cruise control. Just thoughts from a guy that may not be able to pull it off but would be so cool!
Bob couldnt you extend the wiring between the front chaser sound controller (the 1 that resets when turned off) and unused buttons on the KITT dash for easier access, also the bit near the monitor, could you make up a small AC vent with a grill that looks similar to the rest of the dash
Hey Bob this was very interesting, you are achieving excellence here.Getting air conditioning is a no question must have especially in Vegas, I always wondered why Michael Schfee didn't have any climate control vents in the dash.The design of that dash from the vendor in Mexico was a much needed move in the right direction. I 'm happy to be a fan of Knight Rider and the other series/movies and am also a fan of your work related to them. It's a shame that prices are out of control and Uncle Tony on utg pointed out that even basic commodities like engine oil atf,some simple replacement parts are suddenly triple or more.The early third gen Trans Am especially the parts that were more unique to the 1982 models were already artificially heightened by what some have called the "Knight Rider tax",and the artificial raised price will only increase. As a fellow Bob also born in September ( 2) but a bit older (will be 61!)I wish you a quite long and healthy life,and am looking forward to see your progress on your personal Kitt and your other projects!
I would add a filler piece, you have a space on the lower controls about 1.5” in between, that I find more distracting than that gap at the top, some black plastic would make it look great. Plus LEDS will be blasting you in the face! Lol
Bob i hardly ever comment on videos but I just have to say I loved this one. I loved it because you show us who you are and how you think so naturally. I also have to say Bob that I really like you man. I know we will never meet but I just know that I could easily be friends with you. You are just a great person, both intelligent and so funny. All power to your elbow!
Bob why not pull those panels and place them both on a backer plate of black. Maybe split them into 4 pieces and screw them in. Also cut off some of the lefthand side so you do not loose buttons behind the monitor.
Can you make that panel slide back and forth? When Kit is displayed, you can close it, and when driving, you can have it open. It may help to get it evened up also.
Hey @VideoBob can you not just shave a little off each center where they meet ? Looks like there’s enough meat on each one? Just a thought.. stay blessed
Bob get another round vent like you already have thats aimable then cut a hole to the right of the monitor so it can blow on you. Just take that middle duct and cut it back and add flex tube to get the air over to that new vent
There is a dutch guy who even made it drive on is own. And there is no body in the seat or dressed as a seat. Just a remote controlled kitt he parks the damn thing from his bedroom window...
Hope you can get your dash sorted,I too am a huge Knight Rider fan from the UK.Loved your video of the Knight 4000.Wrhat happened to it?Also,will you be taking your KITT car to car shows once he is finished.?
So, will you add a camera in the roof console? (to record the drive and thus help with police & insurance???) What about the back-mirror, will one fit or not? Could be a place to hide a couple of camera's with which Kitt could see the folks sitting in his seat (even if they are fake). As for the displays, any backwards or side looking camera's? Like looking around a corner that you as the drive have trouble seeing because you are sitting so far away from the stop line? Basically, some drivers, comfort display options, there. There is also the music/radio selection options as well. Say, any Tesla self drive system laying around? Because that I bet, would be the same itch you could have, with creating a Hurbie copy. Making them capable of driving on their own. Is the new (Kitt) nose lowering the cooling ability of the engine and if so, how would you increase it again? Water cooling pipes in the nose, for a heat transfer system? Or a modified bottom plate for the air-stream sticking to the ground effect, feeding a air-intake that ends up higher in terms of air exit point(s)? On the other hand, two coolers, one behind each lower nose lamp strips? Now with all the modern stuff, can the dashboard and roof console, their buttons, get actual functions? As for that A-team van, it would have to have a back mounted engine, to account for that episode where they mounted hidden guns in the place the engine is supposed to sit in. One that sits ---- and not I That way the gun locker could be mounted against it. My dad uses to have a van with a similar seating setup when I was young, great when there was a traffic jam, lots of room to play on, at te backseats & floor. So if somebody ever goes for one, add entertainment for the backseats.
At 13:14 mark....how do you connect the console part to center console? L brackets? I plan on buying one from knightriderworld, just didn't know how it will stay on without tipping over as I drive. Also I have a B&M ratchet shifter, think the t handle would slide by the console? Thanks for any help.
All these Kitt dashboard videos are getting me excited for my build. I've still waiting on a set I ordered from Jupiter Electronics in Jan 2022, so hopefully they get done soon!
Yeah, I'm not so sure its a flaw in the dash design for the pieces to sit "crooked" , but square elements sitting in a round dash. You gotta give and take with certain things, in my opinion. It won't make or break the car, I bet if you look at the 4k bluray episodes, you'll see how they set them up.
I really don't care about screen accuracy I just thought the car and semi truck where cool as a kid it was good show I like the tech and image using the tech we have in cars now days put in tesla tech with 2019 vette engine in a Kitt build thank you Bob for sharing never knew how much work goes into Kitt dash build.
I think the modern way, and I know it's retro and kinda to the show I get that, but I think all that stuff could be done with LCD panels and a screen layout designed to look like all of that, and maybe make it look cooler, more modernish without going overboard. The inlays I had for awhile were separate pieces like the show.
They make small cob led panels that are flat and the whole surface is essentially just one led. No bright spots, just a panel of light. You could easily find some for placement behind the mode display and they are dirt cheap. I have a pair of 6" long ones in the top of the back window of my car right at the edge of the headliner in my car to light up the back seats when the down light came on because there was no dome light, just a couple map lights on the rear video mirror. They are bright
I am not expert, but in my trans am I installed the scanner control where the radio was and my main screen is my radio, I have a 4 th season dash but I guess you could use a small touch screen radio. I really enjoy your watching your kitt replica videos.
You're the best love what you do I love everything about you you say the truth keep up the good work when I hit the lotto I'm going to pay you a million to build my Kitt car😊❤
