Somewhere between Knight Rider, Battlestar Galactica, and Texaco’s marketing department lies this fever dream on wheels: a third-gen Pontiac Firebird TransAm turned rocket ship. Built for Texaco’s hilariously tone-deaf “Wipe Out Waste” campaign and even featured in the Captain WOW comic book, this one-off concept looks like it could blast off into orbit—or at least […]
The television show Knight Rider ran from 1982 to 1986. The show was a huge hit and catapulted David Hasselhoff’s then young acting career to stardom. The new for 1982 third generation Trans Am also got a big boost publicity boost serving as the main co-star on the show. The car’s name was KITT or […]
The show Knight Rider is a classic slice of Americana, a cheesy 80s detective/vigilante show starring the undeniably tall and cheeseburger loving David Hasselhoff. But the real star of the show was an indestructible 3rd gen Pontiac Firebird Trans-Am named KITT (Knight Industries Two Thousand). In the show, KITT cost upwards to $100,000 to build, […]