Someone asked a little while back how many cars were destroyed in
making the original Knight Rider, and the answer of course is basically
none due to clever film and model work. I'm not sure how many cars the
show used in total, but it wasn't a huge number either.
By comparison, there was a story in the newspaper here yesterday about
the original Dukes of Hazzard. Apparently the Dukes show used 300
General Lee cars during it's run (it's anyone's guess how many police
cars and others!), routinely destroying one or two per episode when
doing the stunts. Only about 23 of the original cars are thought to
remain in existence.
