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| I was 5 years old when Knight Rider premiered in 1982, but as soon as I saw that car, I wanted one. Not being able to find a well paying job at ages 5-8, my brothers and I would make the dash out of cardboard and Duct tape and would pretend that that was K.I.T.T. That desire never went away and now that I am older and have a little extra cash, I bought a 1989 Pontiac Formula Firebird and began the conversion. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| PROJECT UPDATE | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 7/18/2005 - Donor car bought. Couldn't wait to get started. 2/12/2006 - Site Started! To date most of the body work is done, I have all of the parts to complete the exterior and interior, and reinstall the stock dash (for now) until I have enough money to buy the conversion dash. See the pictures section for photos of my progress. 2/18/2006 - I picked up a power seat track for the driver's seat!!! It works very well and seems to be in almost new condition. 3/6/2006 - I trailered the car to the place where I will be installing the bumper...getting closer to paint!!! 3/7/2006 - The bumper is ready for final mounting and the fog light mounting holes are in place. More pics to come... (see pictures page 4) 3/9/2006 - The bumper is on!!! The scanner is installed to determine its' location but will be removed before going to paint. Check out pictures pages 4 and 7 for new photos and videos!!! 3/13/2006 - I think that I may actually have the videos on page 7 up and running now. Please let me know if problems with them still exist. 3/24/2006 - THE BODY WORK IS DONE!!!!!!!!!! 4/15/2006 - Tech Page added to the site 5/16/2006 - Working on restoring a trailer to use to transport the car. By this date the only thing left to do is put decking on. (See pictures) 5/17/2006 - Added some new pics throughout the site, check 'em out. And, though I thought the body work was done I found several other minor things that needed to be done. 5/22/2006 - The trailer is done and ready to take the car to paint. On the same day I completed the last of the body work (really this time) and with the car on the trailer it's ready to go the paint shop. 5/26/2006 - Took KITT to the paint shop today!!!...pics to follow soon. 5/29/2006 - Added some music to a couple of the pictures pages. Music from one of my favorite episodes "Junk Yard Dog". 6/1/2006 - Visited the paint shop today, they are still sanding and prepping the car for paint. The job they've done so far looks fantastic. Sorry no pics yet, no real change from what I had when I dropped it off. 6/9/2006 - K.I.T.T. is painted. I picked it up from the paint shop today, man it looks GREAT!! See pictures page 9 6/16/2006 - I've prerun all of the electrical work that I'm going to need and now, with the exception of the headlight bezels the exterior of the car is DONE. The carpet goes in tomorrow. 6/21/06 - As the French woould say "Juste Finir" or I AM FINISHIED. The car is on the road and other than the digital dash...I AM DONE!!! (pics on page 13) Less than 1 year turn-around, I couldn't be more pleased! 7/25/07 - Bought a stock 1985 steering wheel to harvest the mounting post from so that I don't need an adaptor. Got started on building my gullwing steering wheel. (pics on page 14) |
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