Love your videos, Bob. Your scanner controller was part of the set sold by JC Whitney company in their catalog. It also came with a very cheap eight light scanner bar. If I recall correctly all of the positive terminal on the bulbs were connected and the switching pattern was done through the negative wires.
That scanner controller was widely available years ago with the JC Whitney knight rider light bar. Use to run these little Xmas lights. I think I still have one of the controllers somewhere and mine went bad too.
Bob - This car is so awesome on every level! It has a fascinating history. Thank you for investing your time in restoring this beauty. You are a true master craftsman and artist.
For a couple minutes I was thinking "you should use LED's that would be great!" Then the mention of the fade and how LED's turn on and off instantly.......good call man!
0:36 damn man I love that Banshee concept car. One of the coolest looking concept cars ever made. When I was a kid in the 80's I wished so bad that they would produce the car for real.
you should do The Wraith Car with Charlie Sheen that thing looked fascinating and still does today, and the Film was just so good due to its Amazing Story line
I know where that black box with the knob came from...the JC Whitney catalog. At one time they sold Knight Rider light bars for and back in 1998 I bought one for my '98 Pontiac Grand AM. They were not as good of course as what a true Knight Rider enthusiast would use, but were fun when I had them.
That's exactly where it's from. JC Whitney's light didn't have the proper fade in and fade out, and just came with that crap box. I had one back in the mid 90's.
That was awfully magnanimous of the gentleman to return the part to you. It's great that you're working on this and trying to use as many original parts as you can. BTW I loved the karaoke last night!
you should replace the scanner bulbs with LEDS, you should do a knight 2000 style dash on it, or if you restore it back to original make the K4000 dash functional with all the screens and guages and and buttons functional
J.C. Whitney control box with the name and graphics removed..that's why it's just black. Also can't use led's because their instant on/off so their won't be any comet trial to the scan..unless you do more modifications like capacitor/resistor load on the outputs or pwm type of controller.
A guy I work with has a Dewalt drill like your Craftsman and it is amazing. I was skeptical of the twist action until he brought it in to use one day, amazing tool.
Wow! It's great to hear when people actually act like human beings! I'm so happy for you, you got this original part back! Whatever you do, don't throw anything away when you restore, from original...I would like a piece of scrap from the original movie car, when you replace with new parts!
Looks like a vellerman electronics kit commonly got from Tandy, radio shack in the 80s. Then the relays were driven off the LED outputs as a “lash up” for the show.
Come to think of it I think you are right lipsi like that is that a box or a gotten from someone had some when I get done to it as well as well as if somebody a chromatid where'd you get that kid and it doesn't look like a data racially that one time.
00 also just remembered something I think I'm built a kit like that at one time but I actually brought out the wires from the LEDs just as a flasher the blink lights on something as well I think that's why I had two of those things if I'm not mistaken but yes I handed in the pants straight relays or relay boards just something that would raise a b l e d i once built a clock that you was fluorescent bulbs to display the time when you push a button the reverse engineered display and to do this and if you can pwnis to E channel air relay they were preheat fluorescence nice flickery display 2 they were only turned on if you hit the button for the time we're friends with electrical guy and asked if I could do something like that cool project. Also wants I did one with big glass tubes and a high-voltage generator that was triggered by the same idea oh and by the way the other clock for the colons and the alarm and p.m. and stuff use incandescent bulbs is there fluorescence for the colons and the other indicators. But back to the one that use the Flash costumes not Ark tubes but the idea was to have old it for Dark Through It of crackling fire kind of like a water plasma tube except it's just a large glass tube and the colons and indicators were spiral flash tubes. Although did the doctors flash but just arcs of blue plasma the idea was your appointment high voltage high enough to realize it but no trigger pulse which just allowed plasma but no ignition of the flash tube I provided spares in case they ever failed. And he Aubrey had a danger high voltage sign to hang below it by the way. Yeah really old rusty one it fit the bill melted in some old rusty piece of equipment housing. Over glass or plastic front
The dashboard on this car was meant to be blank, as you only see the outside of the car anyways. The other car had the process car's dash integrated in which looks cool.
I've heard that the KR2000 team asked Pontiac to use the Banshee, or it's likeness, but GM said no. i wonder why they said no? i mean GM did very well out of the original series. ALSO, soak the part in brake fluid to remove paint without damaging the acrylic. it'll take a few hours to a day to soften and then you can brush it off. i use this technique for model-car bodies to strip the paint off without damaging the plastic body.
I remember these from the movie back when that came out. I was still very much a kid. I always wondered what happened to this car until I found these videos. Good to see you restoring it. It would be really nice if it could be made screen accurate inside and out. Even if, it wasn't necessarily all original. The body will be, and I think that's what's important.
the box is identical to the store-bought ones from jc whitney back in the 90s. i used to put those in cars. they came with either amber or red chaser lights.
I would so very much like to have that scanner glass 😍 And about the engine: Since you never even heard the real engine sound in the movie, I don't really care if it was the original one or a new one 🤷🏻♂️
That's the first thing I said when he showed it. I believe I had the amber one. I didn't know JC Whitney was making them that far back. Guess they got right on the craze when the show was fresh.
The thing that really bothered me about the K.I.F.T scanner is that it had no chase fade at all which made it look off somehow. Also a red scanner in a red car was difficult to see
OMG!!!!...Video Bob!....I have the EXACT SCANNER box module!! I bought this off EBAY back in 2008/9! I looked at the video of your module and and put it along side my module IDENTICAL!!!!!!!
the scanner in the night 4000 was also using a 56 Chevy in the same movie The the script call for Michael taking it out of storage out of kit temporarily putting it in the 56 Chevy until the night 4000 was ready then he transferred it into the night 4000 and it is a JC Whitney circuit control box with 194 Bob's side marker lights sockets I even made one waterproof for the boat scene
Bob, I'm Stoked Man! I totally Cant wait to see the 4000 restored!!!!!!! I was one of those kids way back when that watched Religiously and Absolutely remember that car. I'm a car guy so I thought back then it was the banshee but realized it wasnt. But So cool man!
You are one funny guy, gender neutral terminals. And showing forgiveness towards the guy that stole the scanner control thingy it is something that people should do more often, it does not mean you are going to trust that person but the willingness to forgive is healing on itself. Great video.
New wiring and bulbs would be choice just as a refresh for the original scanner. I am really stoked for this build. Just to see it start and look fresh would be such a happy ending for this piece of history.
Those scanners and control boxes were sold by JC Whittney up untill about 10 years ago. Its the same unit I installed on a couple KITT 2000 repro cars I made in the past.
I was thinking the same thing. He obviously wanted to have something from knight rider, so might be nice for him to have something from the car without feeling guilty about it.
Red 194 bulbs are barely bright. Just use regular ones or ultra bright led’s!!! Its a small upgrade for a cool and much brighter effect! Any luck finding those nice chrome rims from tv?
Glad you're taking good care of the original Knight 4000. Imho the scanner needs halogen bulbs for a proper trailing effect. I know led uses a lot less energy but at the moment for me there is only the ZA electronics led scanner that comes close to a halogen scanner.
Its funny that of all the content he has with the fanbase of back to the future and loads more. Knight Rider fans are the ones about to make this channel blow the hell up. Well that and his live stream of singing lol. Good job by the way
Videobob Moseley, I had read that on the original Knight Rider car that they had to put in a second battery just for the scanner. I guess the scanner drew a lot of power and kept killing the battery. I don’t know if that was the same with this car though. Just thought you would like to know.
Is there a video or two on that OCP Police cruiser beside the Knight 4000? Looks to be one from the first film judging by the logo configuration on the police shield.
After CHiPs '99, the K4K also appeared in the TV series "Black Scorpion" in its totally red paint.Knight Rider 2000 was the only place it appeared in the red body/black roof combo. Then it was used in the Power Rangers and was painted as a cop car for the first time then I saw it used in Scare Tactics as the cop car and I'm guessing that's when they retired it. Upon seeing it painted black as a cop car, it made me wish they'd painted it black for KR-2000. It looks a lot more aggressive in black and more like KITT.
I had three knight rider lights from jc Whitney very hard to wire do to very very thin gage wires bulbs were like Christmas light bulbs very dim unless showing at night
Keep the original parts with the car but yeah, that stuff is fried. Maybe add some inline connectors to make servicing the car easier in the future, like Molex MX150 series waterproof connectors or similar?
I started thinking about the singing videos do u ever use twitch com site u could live stream on there sat nights love the techno on there. Love your car videos
swap the motor for the twin turbo version. maybe go all wheel drive and lower the suspension. it would be cool to see this thing come back better than ever.
Me too. I'm 56 now. And now I do something like this inside a $2 microcontroller with a little bit of code. Super easy and for those not familiar, not to worry, there's a million examples online for how to sequence a few LEDs or small lamps using a generic microcontroller, or Arduino, or Raspberry Pi, plus a few small power mosfets. However, the value of using the original box/circuitry that was used in 2000 with this car is that the whole point of doing a restoration is to keep it as close as possible to the original design. Using the original box accomplishes that goal.
