TMCP # 366: Michael, Look Out! Our Inside Scoop on the REAL Screen Used KITT’s from Knight Rider with the Knight Rider Historians.

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Robert Kibbe

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4.8 • 701 Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2018

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

In the early 80's there were a few different car centered TV shows competing for the same viewers. There were the Dukes and the General Lee, but Michael Knight and KITT showed up with a different, more futuristic kind of automobile. Our guest this week is AJ Palmgren who is a Knight Rider Historian similar to how our own Corn Dog is to the General Lee. Between AJ and Joe Huth there is many many shows worth of information (plus a couple books) and the depth of research is astounding. Unfortunately many important people involved with creating and developing the series are no longer with us but these guys were able to interview and document many stories before they passed away.

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0:00.0	The Muscle Car Place Online Podcast, episode number 366. This week, our guest is A.J. Palmgren
0:06.5	of Knight Rider historians. AJ and his business partner Joe know a ton about the TV series Night Rider,
0:12.8	and they each own an original screen used car. They each have a kit. That's right. And before you
0:17.8	guys freak out, yes, a Dukes of Hazard fan like me can also like Knight Rider.
0:22.5	And just like the Dukes, knowing the full scoop of the behind-the-scenes use of screen cars is cool to me.
0:27.8	So I wanted to have someone on who could tell me who designed the cars in the first place,
0:32.3	things like why does it have a scanner, why is the car in the first episode specifically different than what we see
0:37.6	throughout the series? How many cars were used in the series? How many remain today? Stuff like that.
0:43.2	And I think we have the right guy to answer that. But one of the things that Joe and I have
0:47.5	done, you know, spent way, way too much time in is tracking these cars. Just like you know that,
0:51.6	you know, you see it's a hazard. You see, you see a General Lee car, you see a General Lee in one scene, you know it was originally green. This is how
0:58.1	we know that kind of stuff. The same kind of thing, I'm certain. That's right. There's
1:01.8	fan boys for everything. Bernie, just cue the music. Night Rider, a shadowy flight into the dangerous world of a man who does not exist.
1:23.2	This is the Muscle Car Place, weekly online podcast.
1:27.6	Brought to you by National Parks Depot. This is the weeklycle Car Place, weekly online podcast. Brought to you by National Parks Depot.
1:30.2	This is the weekly show dedicated to people worldwide who love American muscle cars.
1:36.1	Whether you're buying them, selling, restoring, or even racing them, this is the place for you.
1:42.4	Now, here's your host, Rob Kby yes indeed i am rob kibby and
1:48.2	welcome to the muscle car place podcast well we have a long interview today it's all about
1:55.0	nightrider and i'm going to start the show therefore with, with my own personal General Lee update.
2:02.2	Yeah, thank you, Brady.
2:03.9	I have less of an update than I had last week.
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