Knight Rider Screen Used Miniature KITTs - An Introduction

Even when you could tell it was a model, there was a certain charm to it

You can tell they were models, but the attention to detail is amazing!

I always found the models painfully obvious as a kid. The only time I thought it worked was with that amazing jump over the prison wall in Brother's Keeper, which really did look and land almost like a real car.

Guys, you let me sit here in front of my pc like a 8 year old boy.. thanks for that!!

Some scenes were obvious that they were toys but I would've never noticed that the Chevy jumping scene was one of them :o

Just timeless I loved watching it when I was a kid . And loved watching now at 49 years old. 👍

I was in my teens building model cars including the Knight Rider 1/25 scale model. I couldn't believe the poor attention to detail that the ones on TV had compared to the one I put together. Loved how the car would bounce when it hit the ground, the hubcaps were kinda flat instead of convex, the paint job was a low gloss finish, and for some reason the background tended to look like a cloudy day. They should've considered an episode going up against Godzilla lol!

I would give up every single knight rider collection I ever own just to own a piece of history like those miniature K.I.T.T. models.

I always watched Knight Rider with my dad. We used to laugh at the miniatures but the show was good and we didn't care. I'm glad the mini's are being preserved. 👍👍

That first shot of KITT skiing on 2 wheels is just awesome! They don't make shows like this anymore

Knight Rider was one of the few shows that really did a fantastic job with all of the driving sequences. David Hasselhoff as Micheal Knight was always shown in a moving car as opposed to green screen effects. With that being said, the miniature work was executed very well. I don’t know of any show that went through the same painstaking lengths to give the illusion that KITT was doing all of those fantastic things. Knight Rider was just an all around great show.

My grandfather used to own a truck wash and I remember him taking me when I was young to see a tractor trailer that they just washed and it had had fullsize and Mini K.I.T.T. vehicles in the trailer. It was one of the coolest things I remember seeing at my grandfather's truck wash.

I never liked the miniatures and they were painfully obvious, especially in Ring of Fire, but I never noticed the used miniatures in K.I.T.T. vs. K.A.R.R., despite I caught the falling K.I.T.T. in that scene the first time watching it (not even 10 years old yet at that time) 😅 so K.I.T.T. vs. K.A.R.R. would get 5 stars from me 😄

You can always tell the real stunts from the miniatures ones. You mentioned The Dukes and I remembered John Schneider saying they tried using models, but the fans started complaining and the audience share decreased. Truth is you can always tell. Even on big screen movies.

They are very good at what they do because I never even knew they used miniatures.

I know that a lot of people have great disdain for the miniatures but back during the original air most people couldn't tell watching on a small low quality CRT TV. Heck, some people still had tiny B&W TVs back then. The studio used miniatures sometimes due to the crazy feats that the "industrictible" KITT was called to do, but mostly it was a cost saving meaure. They want to make as much money as they possibly can and spend as little as possible doing it. I don't remember ever noticing the miniatures when I was a kid during the 1982-1986 air. But when KR came back on TV in 1994/1995 I could immediately spot almost all the miniatures but by then I had a bigger/better CRT TV and had shot both real car and toy/miniature stunts. There was one KR jump that I had to watch twice before determining it was a miniature - that jail break jump when it lands nose first after flying over the wall. This was a great video! I love seeing this stuff!

Finally!! I always wanted to see those models outside of the show's stunts!! TY TY TY!!!

Man, i always wanted to see how these miniature cars of Kitt looked like espacial because in the series you did not get every detail of the miniature it self and thanks to you guys for the first time i got to study the model and compare ih to the real lifesize car... the look great but the left very much of the detail out! Great videos 👍🏻

They really did some amazing work. I always like KITT jumping over the helicopter. Never gave it a thought it was a miniature because the stunt was so good.

Very very cool stuff :) The statement about fooling ten year olds made me laugh :D I was 9 - 11 years old in the original run here in Finland, altough they didn't show every episode here for some reason in the 80's. The original "main" run ended in August 1986, but they aired 4 additional episodes in summer 1987, was 12 at the time. I recall noticing some model scenes, for example in Junk Yard Dog, when KITT goes under the mudpit and the scanner is quite obvious model. White Line Warriors model scene was very well done, I don't recall noticing it at the time.