KITT knight Rider brought back to life….

Hey Star car fans,

One of my first jobs in Hollywood was a tour guide at Universal studios, and for a short time I was also the voice of KITT on the back lot in the early eighties while the show was still in production. 

Well

years go by, and I sit my son in the same car at Universal, with some other guy doing the voice of KITT but I was on a quest to get the TV batmobile, so it was just a fun memoriy to sit in KITT again, this time witn my little boy. 

 

 Well that boy if off to college now and I have had my tv style batmobile for almost 10 years,

and I needed a new daily driver to get me to work and back.    I figured, hey, why not a KITT?  It has lots of stuff my batmobile doesn’t that I want in a daily driver like A/C, windows, a roof when it rains, wiper blades when it rains, a lower profile so people don’t wave and take your photo so much, A/C,  vents,   A/C  did I mention Air Conditioning?  and a ROOF?  Anyway, after much negotiation, KITT is now in my backyard with my batmobile, and they are getting to know each other.

I am working my way through all the Knight Rider Episodes looking for details, and discovering that they were very fast and loose with dashes and panels so making an accurate KITT is impossible, as even the screen used cars weren’t the same from show to show, and often even used two cars in the same episode that had different dashes! 

My son got a little bigger since the last time he sat in a KITT!

A few wires to figure out and trouble shoot before kitt is back on the road….

This KITT was built by Dan Morgan “Knight” in the 90’s, about when I was building my batmobile, then it made it’s way to California and to the SCA thanks to Jason “Knight”.  

So with the help of a F.L.A.G. operative Alex,  KITT should be on the road soon! (Foundation for Law and Government, for those who aren’t fans of KR! )

Now if you are in southern California this weekend the Star Car Association will be at the Pumpkin Festival in Calabasass http://www.calabasaspumpkinfestival.com/FestivalEntertainment08.htm

come by and say HI to some new members and our new SCA KITT OWNER, Alex! Also the DEATHRACE hero Mustang will be making it’s first appearance with the SCA!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So how will I get my new car around the Batmobile, and the minivan to get to work?

That’s easy, just like THIS!

MONKEEMOBILE STAR OF STARCARCENTRAL.COM MICHIGAN AREA CHAPTER!

Just so you don’t think me and my star car pals here in Hollywood are the only ones nutty for movie and TV star cars, I thought I would feature one of our “area chapters” of star car owners.

Michigan Star Cars get together when the weather permits, and the organizer of the get togethers name is really MICHAEL KNIGHT and of course he has a  KITT, but then he needed more so he got a  ”zebra 3″ Starsky and Hutch Torino!  Once the star car “bug” bites, it never lets go!

Other members that are pictured :  Terry is the owner of Herbie, Mel DRIVES the monkeemobile ON THE STREET (can you tell I LOVE this guy without meeting him? I would love to cruise in my batmobile with him around Southern California!)  Mel started with a Smokey and the Bandit Trans am, and then the  star car bug bit him hard (and his wallet)!!!!
Mark  shows up with his  general lee that was  from the recent movie.  The Star car bug got him as well, as the General wasn’t enough, so he bought the Burt Reynolds “boss hogg” caddy….. and he has 2 black beauties undergoing restoration-one  in Michigan where the group meets, and the other out here in Los Angeles.  (Is it going to STAY out here?) It may have a connection to our SCC group….

Here are a few photos from some of their get togethers, I just can’t stop staring at that Monkeemobile!  ON THE  STREET!  Mel is my STAR CAR OWNER of the month, for putting that on the pavement, and not behind ropes with all the fluids drained!  you go MEL!

 

I am sorry, but seeing that coming down the street is just TOO COOL!   There are only 3-4 monkeemobiles in the world,

but there are a few builders out there putting them together, and even some molds, so someone in LOS ANGELES needs to

get one of these…. or Mel can move to Hollywood! The weather is great out here Mel, no rain, just sun, beaches….

Mike has even found an A-Team van to show up!    MIKE has shown that one man with email and a phone, and a keen eye, can make a difference!

This months StarCarCentral.com area chapter award goes to Michael Knight and his star car pals!  Keep them ROLLING!

Route 66 HOT STAR CAR GATHERING IN RANCHO CUCAMONGA

Sundays show was located at the Calvary Faith Center in Rancho Cucamonga on Elm St just off the historic Route 66 (Foothill Blvd). The event included approximately 30 great looking cars from all ereas. A field that sections off a great view of Route 66 was the location of a great model RC air show with planes and helicoptors. There was even a “Build you own” Snow Cone vender (my favorite). They served tacos and burritos for a fair price and everyone loved the Star Car Central showing of Herbie (Jerry), Starsky (Lou), Magnuim (Oscar), and BTTF II (Paul). It was the hottest show this year and I am talking about weather. 

You can always count on those great star car owners to help out at the last minute!  Paul (BTTF) was asked to bring his Delorian to a church in Rancho Cucamonga, and

decided it would be more fun with some of the star car guys so sent out the SCC signal!  Oscar (Magnum P.I.) Jerry Herbie, Lou Starsky and Hutch all answered the call.

I was busy tracking down a short in my Knight Rider KITT and enjoying the mid 70’s weather, where as these guys enjoyed the HOTTEST event of the year!  Hats off, and coats, and shoes to these guys for donating their day off to help out in the hot sun.  Build your own Snowcones sounds fun, but eat them FAST!  

Who’s got A/C? I wanna ride with them!  Now there’s a unique photo out the window…  ya don’t see THAT every day….

KNIGHT RIDER KITT OVERHAUL part 2

Over the last year or so, I have been redoing, updating, repairing deconstructing a Knight Rider KITT that came to me via Texas where it was first put together.  KITT had visited me last Feb. and I was trying to get the owner to bring the car to Star Car events.  Well over time, he decided to sell the car, and I just happen to “need” another star car to get to work in, so KITT came to live with the Batmobile.  http://starcarcentral.wordpress.com/2008/10/17/kitt-knight-rider-brought-back-to-life/

KITT comes for a visit….

and decides to stay….

I really just wanted an owner of a KITT to show up at Star Car Central events, and around this time Alex Wong

showed up with his amazing showroom car, so I went from NO kitts, to suddenly 2!  Alex is to KITT with the details as I am to Batmobiles,

So I started picking his brain for everything that needed either upgrading, renewing, removing, or improving, to make my KITT

more like the original screen used cars.  The first one was the interior was the wrong color!  I knew the car was black and tan, but this car had an all black interior with tan carpet,

the original had tan interior, with tan carpet.  As Alex is one of the “good guys” and was all ready in the process of helping other KITT fans with thier cars, he had some

parts left over to get me started, carpet the right color, and lots of  time saving knowlege .  

That's not Bonnie, or April, that's Alex, and he actually fixes KITTS....

So after a walk around and making lists of all that wasn’t correct, needs updating (like analog TV’s that wont get a signal anymore)

we jumped into work! (in the above photo, wrong seatbelts, black seat parts, black door rail trim…. See? now it bugs you too….)

I had to modify the front foglights, grind off the grills, repaint the inside of the nose, move all the lights back, lot of stuff

that wouldn’t be noticed, but after Alex pointed them out, would bug ME for ever.  

After searching craigs list, ebay, and junk yards, I finally got all proper tan parts, then  recarpeted and rejuvinated the interior.

Anyone need some black 1982 interior parts? 

One of the last exterior parts that needed upgrading was the rear “blackout”.   My KITT came with an old Marks Custom 3 part black out, and the TV KITT

had a single sheet of lexan/plastic across the back.  I removed the three pieces, as one was cracked, and  I was going to just leave the back of the car stock trans am, as I didn’t want to explain the taillight law to Highway Patrolmen over and over.  BUT then I saw the back of Alex’s car and said. “I gotta have that!”

So here are a few shots of how I destroyed the back of a trans am, so I can have the right KITT look!

To make the lexan cover sit right, I had to grind off the eagle, and “fins” off of the center section of the taillights, as well as modify the back of all the rear lights, in order to suck the lights into the car

about 1/4 of an inch.

Then I added adhesive strip across the reflector, double sided, to mount velcro to later.

After wet sanding the lexan, and sanding the edges over and over to get the right fit, I attached a metal 1/2 inch

strip with heavy duty  double stick tape to add firmness to the curve of the lexan, then velcro on top of that.

The photo above is all of it put together, lexan, tape, metal, velcro.

On the passenger side, my work on the back of the lights was not enough to suck it back into the car quite enough, so I had to go at it with a dremmel

(I wasn’t taking it back off of the car, it’s a big ordeal!) on the bottom you can see the double stick tape and velcro that attaches to the car.

Finally, after sanding, painting, sanding, repainting, fitting, refitting, taping, velcro-ing, I thought I was done, and took a photo!

Then I tried to close it, and it wouldn’t close without repeated attempts and having to shut it pretty hard.  The lexan was pushed down, and now it didn’t fit again,

so I resanded, and refitted and now had to figure out how to add a bit of room so the latch would again catch every time.

I eventually figured out I could take off the upper trim piece on the trunk lid (the tan part, the signature is Michael Schiff, original designer of KITT)

and remove the latch, add some thin washers under the 4 bolts, and it was all better!

Now KITT is back on the road, with his exterior now more accurate, and a cool new black out!  Ready to help “one man, make a difference….

and get to work….)

Come see 7 starcars at the Lake Forest 4th of July Parade this Saturday…   also coming up, the KITT Knight Rider dash makeover by Alex!

The final phase….

ROCKFORD FILES FIREBIRD and VANISHING POINT CHALLENGER STAR CAR MEET

Can you tell it’s summer? Lots of car shows, and events all at once!  The day after the City of Hope picnic, Nate Truman and his Starcarcentral.com group had their now annual event somewhere near Lou’s house, so we can have a BBQ!  

left to right, Paul’s BTTF Delorian, Dan’s KITT, Jason’s Herbie,  Brian’s BOND BMW, Sue’s Get Smart Sunbeam, Lou’s STARSKY TORINO, and Mike’s Vanishing Point Challenger.

(Yes, I know the movie car was white, there’s more to the story..  this car was used in the 1997 remake!)  And a big first time suprise of  the ROCKFORD FILES screen used Firebird.

Two of the car used on the show have been waiting for restoration, and now both are on their way to regain their former glory as the transportation of Jim Rockford!

 

We circled our star car owners and swapped stories, while all of the wild Mustangs ran free all over the rest of the park!  Thanks to the Simi Valley Mustang club for a place to meet, before we eat!

So we all packed up our stuff and we drove to Beverly… Lou’s that is , BBQ and lemon squares!  

Jerry didn’t bring his Herbie, because he didn’t want there to be two of them, so instead he brought a replica of this other guy’s shirt!

  Ya can’t win Jerry!   He did bring his sweet motorcycle though, and got to the event in record time!

Oscar aka Magnum showed up for the food, and who can blame him?  The Mustang people quized us all on our different car club!

Thanks to the Chefs and hosts Lou and Linda of the great party afterwards!  This is now an official yearly event! 

City of Hope Pediatric Cancer Picnic – Mickey Mouse, Darth Vader, Batmobile and Star Cars all in one place!

Where else can you get a free train ride and  see Mickey  and Minnie Mouse, Darth Vader, Batman and Catwoman, the Batmobile, Herbie the Love bug, Get Smart’s Machine gun toting tiger sunbeam, all while supporting the City of Hope’s Pediatric Cancer families?  Only one place!  Each year the City of Hope has a special themed picnic and invite the patients and friends and families of people who have gone through their doors at the Hospital Pediatric Cancer ward.    Nate Truman’s StarCarCentral.com and many other groups all pitched in to put on a great and fun event for everyone.

calling all heros!

If you haven’t been there, you need to go to ride the trains, they give rides on trains every Sunday, and once a month the Disney Barn is open, with lots of great history from the start of Disneyland, and Walt’s early backyard trains, that started the whole idea!

 

 

http://www.trainweb.org/girr/lals/lals.html

http://www.lacity.org/rap/dos/parks/griffithpk/sorailroad.htm

 

los angeles live steamers

Right next to the Travel Town Boneyard of full sized trains, is the live steamers park.  if you live in Los Angeles, you should spend at least one day seeing their amazing trains and park, that many volunteers have built over the years.  Make a donation even though the rides are free, and keep the park open for future visitors!

Mickey Mouse checks out fellow Disney star Herbie’s engine, please pay no attention to the black car in the back!

Lots of superhero’s showed up to take photos with the kids and their families, and the batmobile!  Shazam Jr.

is in the front right, then Green Lantern, Jason Todd aka Robin, Catwoman, Batgirl, and Batman.  Iron Man

had to put some marvel comic  into the all DC shot! 

That's better! DC hero's... ACTION POSE!

Scott and Vicky Sebring always bring lots of smiles when they appear as their favorite costumed heroes, and new “cosplay” pals showed up for this special event!

After a while, so many hero’s showed up, that most photos you couldn’t see there was a pretty cool batmobile behind them!

See? There it is…

IRON MAN? Seriously, What the heck? Great costume, but dude, this is DC land, and you sir, you are marvel!  Go find Spiderman to pose with!

Back behind the Hero’s and the batmobile, was Sue’s Get Smart Sunbeam Tiger, but without her Don Adam’s agent 86 stand up, or her Get Smart Impersonator, only the true blue fans that tended to be 40 or older, admired her machine gun and new closed circuit TV.

Kids and adults had fun seeing each other on the TV screen inside the Get Smart Car!

No matter how strict you enforce the guest list, some JOKER always get’s past the gate!   Actually this is one

of the City of Hope medical professionals, getting into the spirit of the event!  Looks like Jack Nicholson!

Sure, you guys let HERBIE into the photo, but when it’s the Batmobile….

Batman and Mousegirl!

I spent the day with Sue “Get Smart” and Minnie Mouse, and some friends from TV shows I used to work on at Weller Grossman Productions.

Cam and Brandy showed up near the end, and I got to blame Brandy in PERSON for starting the process of me ending up with my Knight Rider

Car KITT!     A fun time was had by all, and as I was up front and Obi-Shawn was back with Herbie, I don’t a SINGLE shot of his car, or any of the

many star wars characters who showed up as they were busy posing for photos with his star wars car!

The photo printers were working all day, as the City of Hope volunteers were taking photos of everyone who wanted one!

 

OK, FINE Iron Man, you can pose with the car!     

There’s something you don’t see every day…. wait, there’s something you have NEVER SEEN BEFORE!   Now that I look at it,

that “hot rod Red” paint goes well with the batmobile! 

The theme for next year’s picnic hasn’t been revealed, but if we fit, Nate Truman’s StarCarCentral.com members will be there!  

NEXT UP…

Mustangs, Rockford Files Original Car FOUND, and more famous movie and TV car fun!

FUTURE STAR CAR UPDATES – BUILD/PAINT/DRIVE!

 

OK, so over the years I have gathered together  a great group of star car owners and many of them have brought their famous full size “hotwheels” out to many events, helped various charities, and had a lot of fun in the process!  But what about those OTHER cars?  What about those famous cars on starcarcentral.com that never seem to be at any events?  Well here’s the story!

When I started StarCarCentral.com, my main desire was to root out all those famous cars that were drivable, and could be insured and on the road, so we could gather together at special events, and swap stories, and share our crazy hobbies.  But in the course of doing this, I found a lot of hidden treasures, half built, being restored, not quite done cars, that I just had to add to the club even though I knew that it would be a long time before they could join us in person with their wheels.   So here are some photos and updates on a few of the famous cars that are waiting in the wings that WILL be joining us in the near future!

The first catagory of “almost” cars is the “EBP” everything but paint group, which means really they have to paint their cars, and THEN put them all back together, but really we have two notable cars in this catagory that should be driving to events THIS year.   

First is the ECTO-1 Ghostbuster ambulance.   Sean has been working and working and paying and paying, and it is near completion. 

Next up, and I have seen photos of it with PAINT on it, is CHRISTINE the killer Stephen King car!

Martin met up with is at Cruisin for a cure with out a car last year, I am hopeful that Christine will debut with us

sometime this year!  He also brought out his Terminator Motorcycle to Riverside for a walk for Foster kids!

Then for the fans of early Black and White TV, the Highway Patrol show starred Broderick Crawford, and

Gary is closing in on finishing his police car from that show.

Jerry,  friend of the SCC aquired one of the original screen used professor fate Hannibal Eight cars,

but as you can imagine, this one will not be driving down the 405 with us any time soon!   Sure wish we

could get it to an event, it would knock the socks off of any crowd!

We are hot on the trail of the owners of an Austin Power’s “Shaguar” and hope they will join up this summer

“YEAH BABY!”

Also I managed to get ahold of the nice folks at Galpin Ford custom car people, and there is a DRAGULA that again, is not exactly street legal, but may be able to show up for special charities in the coming year.

Our old pal Joe Rios has been promoted and can schedule time off to join us with his very popular Scooby Doo van so we hope to see him

back with us at more events, maybe the Pasadena Police one coming up? Huh Joe? 

In the “starting stage” Luis from the Knights of the West Coast, has put his KITT Knight Rider on hold, long enough to

put together a Punisher replicar…  as goes so many of these pet projects, it’s all about time and money now….!

Will we ever see Tim’s RAT PATROL JEEP?   Well, I did, at my old Church Rolling Hills Covenant, and found out he also has a POWER WAGON but didn’t

go for the Simon and Simon paint job, and his jeep isn’t the right jeep for rat patrol…. I told him we wouldn’t tell, just bring it out!   Barry (robocop and othercop)

just informed me he also has a Rat Patrol jeep, but with Barry, he can only drive one car, lets all encourage him to bring his Robocop or Rat patrol Jeep to events this year!

On the upside, we went from NO KITTS in California to be found, to one, then two, and  now about FIVE in various stages of completion, and we can look forward to seeing a KITT at most events in the comming years!   The Knights of the West Coast came aboard, and Alex, Luis, Dan, Nick etc. have been trading off shows to make sure that “El Carro Fantastico!” aka Knight Rider’s KITT will be represented at the future charity events that the Star Car Central members  attend!

Mark T. due to a busy schedule is making slow progress on the Black Beauty, finding parts, and people who can advance the project while juggling all of his other hobbies, ideas, jobs is always tricky.  Not sure when we will see Mark with us with a car, but when we have an event near by, he’s always happy to show up and share some progress photos!  PAINT IT! DRIVE IT!  (I say that to all the star car owners who aren’t done….)

We don’t have quite this many General Lee’s but I can’t figure out why with about 6 cars in Los Angeles, we can’t get ONE to show up now and then!

Get some A/C in those things, or tough it out, I drive with no A/C, no ROOF, no VENTS, and Brian in Horace may have a roof, but he has been taking SURFACE STREETS

due to visability problems to get to events! I am calling you out, DUKE BOYS! 

Oh yeah, and so you don’t think I am not talking to myself as well, my project will be getting some attention this summer, with trips to the secret location in the coming months! 

Lots of boring grinding, welding, and dirty work has to be done, before I can get to anything fun, but I finished my welding class, so look out! Slow progress ahead!

(Anyone have any metal they want to donate? Firewall? Structural? I am NOT kidding?!   Anyone know how to do Air lifts? 

The Addition of a KITT to “nate Truman’s star Car central.com ” home collection (again, that key word thing for my son) slowed my progress on the dash for the “monster in the back yard” as my Mother calls it, but now that KITT is close to being road worthy, my focus will return to my long term project!

One last new find, is a great TV car, that wasn’t on TV!  Thanks to famous Dicast.com and Jason,  we Connected with the owner of the Charlie’s Angels one of a Kind van, that is here in Los Angeles!   

http://www.charliesangelsfan.com/CAvan.htm

Check out the whole story here!

Next UP:

More event updates, and lost star cars around the country…

Nate Truman and the Star Car Central gang paparazzi sightings around LA!

Well “Nate Truman and his Star Car Central.com Gang” (I was told by my son to add nore tags and key words to my posts!) have been out and about the last few weeks, supporting the police, Pediatric Cancer Survivors and their families with the City of Hope, and having BBQ’s with Mustang owners in Simi Valley, but best of all, FINDING MORE STAR CARS!!! 

The group in the first photo above is from the LAPD Granada Hills car show on May 30th.  In Attendance were from left to right:

Mark G. and his Adam-12 Cruiser,  Jason and his Herbie the Love Bug, Pauls Back to the Future Delorian, Lou’s Starsky and Hutch Torino, Sue’s Get Smart Tiger/Sunbeam and on the end there, in red and black is a “new to us” star car!  The movie “Vanishing Point” that featured a white Challenger was remade in the 1990’s and the red car was one of two Challengers used in the movie.  Mike fit right in to the StarCarCentral gang, and was with us a few weeks later in Simi.  More posts about the details on Mike’s car as I work through a big update on the star car central.com website over the summer!

Look for details on Mikes car in the posts ahead....

One of two cars from the remake of vanishing point!

Herbie is always a fan favorite, below a few younger fans have a heart to heart with the Love bug!

talking with Herbie the Love bug!

Paul is almost always on time to events, but he has the advantage of the flux capacitor!

MARTY! I'm here to take you back to the Future!

Sue K. was there with her Get Smart Sunbeam, now with not only a hood mounted machine gun, but new closed circuit TV!

Get Smart Tiger Sunbeam with Don Adams

"Would you believe, a closed circuit TV?"

"One adam 12, see the man...."

Mark polished up his Adam-12 car, and lots of helicopters were there as well, that he spends his days fixing to keep the “bears in the air”!

Lou and Linda, not Starsky and Hutch...

Hey, you can see his car up above, but as Jason took photos of PEOPLE at our event, for a change of pace, I thought I would post faces instead of cars!

Driver's of Famous Star Cars support the Police!

This was the only shot Jason (Herbie) got in, so here are the representatives of “Nate Truman and the Star Car Central.com Famous Movie and TV cars”

Where’s Nate? well, I was working at the annual Friends of  Angles (.com) annual yard sale that raises funds for the summer camp, so the batmobile stayed in the cave but they seemed to have just a fine time without me! 

Besides, in less than a week, the SCC was back out on the town, with Darth Vader, Mickey Mouse, and the Pediatric Cancer picnic for the City of Hope Superhero event, and a big BBQ and another star car gathering!  Stay tuned, star car fan….

Ability First Star Car Central red carpet event!

It happened on Friday May 1st, but here’s the post now! AbilityFirst provides programs and services to help children and adults with physical and developmental disabilities reach their full potential throughout their lives. They offer a broad range of employment, recreational and socialization programs.

Last year was Star car Central’s first time participating in the Red Carpet Oscar like event, and it was such fun we brought a different group back for the second year!

Mark G and his Adam-12 cruiser showed up, and then got a call to fix a helicopter, so he got himself moved up in the line up, and delivered Jim Carrey (does he seem a bit too tall?) to the red carpet area where Joan Rivers was greeting all the ariving stars.

Mark G's Adam 12 meets Jim Carrey look alike! Mark ran the red carpet, then ran to keep the police in the air! Always on call, his job is to keep them flying!

“One Adam-12  see the woman dressed like Joan Rivers, use caution, she is armed with a sharp wit. that is all.”

(In a side note, I am trying to locate an “ACE VENTURA” car for the Jim Carrey Impersonator… we shall see…)

Scott Sebring is in the Batman costume, with his Wife Vicky together they were a big hit with the “consumers” and all the attenders

of the event!

Check out the “circe” reflective red paint on Tom’s car!  Cool! 

Just so no one is confused, that is TOM driving HIS batmobile, no I didn’t let someone else drive my bat. So don’t ask. Don’t ask Tom either.

Sue and Get Smart and Lucy Ball?

Sue brought her Get Smart Sunbeam with working machine gun in the hood, along with a great Get Smart Look-A-Like

and were teamed up with a  ”I Love Lucy” impersonator.  Maxwell Smart entertained the crowd with his Shoe Phone!

harley hearse with Elvira?Not sure if it's a "star Car" but a great Elvira look a like rode up in this harley pulled hearse! COOL!

Were’s Obiwan?  See if you can find all the odd combinations in one photo, Batman, Obiwan, Get Smart Car,

Herbie the Love bug, and Catwoman!

Where's Waldo?

YEAH BABY!

We met a new friend at the event, a GREAT Austin Power’s impersonator, who connected us with

a SHAGUAR!  Look for the british flag on a jag at future events!  (Now find KITT from Knight rider,

the batmobile, and get smart and shrek in that photo!

  Austin Power’s “Shaguar” Yeah Baby!

Batman and Robin?

There’s Tom!  he went early, then took off when it started to rain!  I know the feeling, batman goes out when it’s cool, dark and dry….

The bat was a big hit!

the starcarcentral.com line up!

The Batmobile, KITT, Get Smart, Herbie, Star Wars H-wing, but Adam-12 had to answer the call before I got there to take any photos!

Austin in the Love big, that makes sense!

Jerry was our “Herbie” Owner this year, and he got to deliver Austin Powers to the center stage.

Steven Speilburg in KITT

O.K. so Steven Spielburg had nothing to do with knight rider, but the car has a kind of a “shark” nose, so they played

the theme to Knight Rider, and JAWS!

Sue "Beaming" next to her Get Smart Sunbeam

  Brian walks with the stars!

Brian brought his nephew and rode in a Limo this time, instead of in Herbie or Horace the Hate bug.

 So why all this fuss, and driving in the rain through traffic on a Friday night?

For the smiles!

this last photo says it all!  It was a big night for all of us, but the smiles on the faces of all those attending and helping when they saw

the famous cars and impersonators was worth any and all trouble it was to be apart of this big event!  See you next year!

Back to the Future, after the parade, to see new old star cars!

After the Parade, just a few miles away there was a big Back to the Future cast reunion, and lots of our Delorian friends were over there, so we decided to keep the parade going and stop by!   So Lou and Linda, AKA Starsky and Hutch, Nate aka KITT from Knight Rider, Sue – Get Smart Sunbeam, Jerry and Jason’s Herbies, Brian’s Horace the Hate bug, Oscar’s Magnum P.I. Ferrari and Shawn’s Star Wars car all paraded over.  Mark G. and his Adam-12 had to answer a call, Chuck and his Rod got back in their trailer, but all the rest went over to the Burbant Airport Mariott for more star car action!

 

We all got into the parking lot, and it wasn’t hard to find the Delorians!  Paul BTTF was there in the front making fistfulls of cash, so we went around the corner to find a few other BTTF delorians, and other Star Car central members!  

Still getting everyone’s names right, a few new (to starcarcentral.com) BTTF conversions showed up! Always room for more!

On this side, the StarCarCentral.com line up, Herbie, Get Smart Sunbeam, Horace the hate bug, and Starsky and Hutch

Torino…

starsky, KITT and Magnum

Starsky and Hutch Torino, KITT from Knight Rider, and the Ferrari from Magnum P.I. represent the StarCarCentral.com team.

But on this day, we were outnumbered by the Delorian fans.

We met up with lots of new and old Delorian pals, Jay was in town with his great BTTF replica,

Danny Botkin “aka Mr. Delorian” as well as getting face time with Sean “Ecto-1″ who said he will be on the road with starcarcentral.com this summer!

Bill Murray, get your proton pack!

We also met up with Dan and two big Knight Rider fans from Knights of the West coast, and Dan T’s KITT.   After losing a few people who wanted to go inside and get autographs, we had a great lunch impromptu meeting.  The KOTWC fit right in with the gang, as the star car disease tends to grow into other shows, so everyone had fun swapping star car stories over lunch.

What did i learn?  The Burbank parade was fun, and I discovered I like taking KITT on hot days, a lot more than driving the batmobile with no roof, sun visors, or Air conditioning!     The Batmobile will be back on the road for future events this summer, but Tom’s Batmobile was up next for the Ability First red Carpet Event May 1st.   Stay tuned, star car fan…. the best is yet to come!  And if you are a member of any star car web boards for just one car, please feel free to post my web blog link! Maybe next summer – an ALL STAR CAR – CAR SHOW!

A ROW of Herbies, Generals, KITTs, delorians, Torinos…. ya gotta have big dreams!   

Next up the Ability First event, and our ranks swell by a few new cars…. YEAH BABY!!!

Burbank goes Hollywood! 3 Batmobiles? Get Smart needs a new Shoe phone, and a parking lot of Delorians? Only here at StarCarCentral.com!!

What a STAR CAR filled day this last Saturday.  The sun was shining and the annual Burbank parade was lining up on side streets along Olive Ave.

Jason (Herbie) had suggested that the Star Car Association was perfect for the Burbank goes Hollywood theme

this year, and the members agreed!   I know star car fans like photos better than reading, so here was the line up!

Jason’s Herbie was getting in good with the Judges, and helped us win first place~

Sue brought her Get Smart Sunbeam, with new Machine Gun, and Maxwell Smart as well!

Chuck brought his “Rod Riguez” as pretty as always!

Oscar back in his proper Red Ferrari, had his Detroit cap, Hawaiian shirt, now he needs a mustache!

I brought my KITT for it’s first appearance with the SCA, Alex works on Saturdays, so the Batmobile stayed in the cave!

R2D2, Yoda, and Darth, along with a storm trooper all came with Obi-Shawn in his star wars car

Paul aka Mad Max was in place followed by a few other Law enforcement vehicles….

Lou and Linda (with neck brace NOT due to Lou jumping his car over hills) were ready to go along with

Adam-12 Mark’s great police cruiser. Bringing up the rear, was a pair of famous air cooled VW bugs,

Jerry’s herbie and Brian’s Horace the Hate bug!

Hey, how come that Brian keeps getting in the photos?  Sir, please move away from the famous car….

Wow, that’s quite a line up, considering we lost Paul’s BTTF Delorian to another event across town, and

at the last minute Tom and HIS batmobile had to catch a flight and couldn’t make it.  But wait? Isn’ t THAT

the batmobile?

Holy unexpected batmobile!

So as I was explaining to the guys why not only did Tom not bring his batmobile, but I brought KITT instead of

MY batmobile, up the street drives my old pal James D. Simone in his home made scratch built 4 seater batmobile!

We got him to park with us for a while, but he was scheduled to transport a congressman down the street ahead of us!

So there would have been two batmobiles anyway!

The parade started on time, and we had a nice shady street to wait on, and take photos of each others cars, even pose for

a group photo with Darth Vader, a Storm Trooper and Get Smart!

The we all jumped in our cars as the judging was over, and we didn’t even know we had won first place!

Sirens blaring, lights blinking, stormtroopers posing, what’s not to like?

The crowd loved seeing their old “friends” from TV, each car had different fans, and it is always fun to see the recogntion

on people’s faces as they remember what show each car is from!  I enjoyed having Air Conditioning, and a ROOF!

So after the parade, winning our division, and letting a few cars cool their motors for a bit, we had another big star car

event to go to after that!

One - Adam 12, officer in need of assistance....

AMAZING STAR CAR DAY PART TWO!

Well if that wasn’t enough star cars for one day, we were only getting started!

More tomorrow, my uplaoding fingers are tired!!!

Peace love and Star cars…..

Nate Truman