"L. Ross Raszewski" <lraszewski@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Fri, 15 Sep 2006 12:38:26 GMT, Ed Chilada <nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>On Fri, 15 Sep 2006 07:57:46 -0400, "80 Knight"
>><80_knightREMOVEMEPLEASE@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>
>>>"Ed Chilada" <nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>> On Thu, 14 Sep 2006 22:19:33 -0400, "80 Knight"
>>>> <80_knightREMOVEMEPLEASE@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>>
>>>>>"Jason Sobol" <musicmanason@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>>>If they absolutely *had* to use a newer car, I could accept a newer
>>>>>Trans
>>>>>Am. KITT will still always be a 1982, but I do think the 2002's are
>>>>>still
>>>>>much like the 1982's.
>>>>
>>>> They did that with KR2000?
>>>
>>>Naw. KITT in "KR:2000" was a Dodge Stealth, made to look like a Pontiac
>>>Banshee (which, was only ever a concept car, if memory serves).
>>
>>Ah! OK, I thought it was based on a 4th gen Trans-Am, as pictured
>>here:
>>
>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontiac_Trans_Am
>>
>>
>
> Calling it a Dodge Stealth isn't really fair; it's a custom
> car built using the frame of a stealth; the body is custom.
With all due respect to the team who built it, it's still one damned ugly
car. KITT would never have liked it back in the 80's.
> The similarity to the 4th gen trans am is not accidental; the custom
> body used for the Knight 4000 was based on the Banshee, Pontiac's
> big concept car of the time. Some of the styling in the 4th gen was
> first tried out on the Banshee -- the 4th gen trans am design is
> basically what you end up with if you take a Banshee and turn it into
> something that would be practical to mass-produce as a normal car
And thank God they got it right. The 4th Generation Trans Am's are
incredible looking cars, IMHO.
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