Knight Rider aired on September 26, 1982. It’s only fitting that I bring out my old K.I.T.T. post, originally published on CarLustBlog.com 8 years ago. Given that the Knight Rider fandom is alive and kicking (and growing!), I’m proud to say that almost no hyperlinks were replaced. Aside from grammatical editing, this post is the same.
2022 marked the 40th anniversary of many things. This date took me by surprise when I found out that movies like Tron and The Last Unicorn (both Jeff Bridges flicks. Wild, huh?) and albums like Yaz/Yazoo’s Upstairs at Eric’s, A Flock Of Seagulls’ self-titled album and Rush’s Signals turned 40. The youngest of the Checker A11/Marathon taxi cabs as well as the original Suzuki Katana also turned 40 their odometers. Other 1980s wheeled-sweethearts turned 40, the MkII Supra and 3rd-gen Celica, the S-series trucks and the 3rd-gen Pontiac Firebird… and Camaro. But out of that model year, there’s one 3rd-gen Firebird and 1980s icon that also reached this not-insignificant cornerstone: The Knight Industries Two Thousand– K.I.T.T. for short.
Before we begin, it’s worth mentioning that the body, the hardware, is called the Knight 2000, while the computer A.I. itself is K.I.T.T., but to avoid confusion, for this post K.I.T.T. is the whole machine, as it should be. Websites and blogs have been made and books have been written about Knight Rider and K.I.T.T., with lists of all of his gadgets, including those one-offs seen only once, so I’ll try (emphasis on the word ‘try’) to keep those details to a minimum.
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