Turbo Boost and We’ll See Who’s the Fastest

Posted by Stephen on April 5th, 2007 at 3:03 PM

My brain is being eaten by work, so here’s a short post on nothing of much importance. A while back I confessed to my youthful love of Knight Rider. Now I have learned that I can relive that obsession by buying K.I.T.T. Some ten years ago Tim Russo bought one of the Trans-Ams used for close-up views of K.I.T.T. It has a turbo boost button, working video screens, and the red light in the car hood that goes “vrrm vrrm”. The best part of the article: “Most of the buttons don’t do anything, Verhoek said. Nor can the car hold a conversation or drive itself.” Sadly, K.I.T.T. is not street-legal. Of course, if that turbo boost worked you could always out-run the cops.

So: if you could have one television prop, what would it be?

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Comment by Jeff

So: if you could have one television prop, what would it be?

Wow. What a question. :) There are lots of interesting props to choose from. I remember reading years ago about a group of people who got together as a corporation and purchased from Warner Brothers almost all of the remaining Dodge Chargers used as the General Lee in The Dukes of Hazzard. Each buyer got a car, and they didn’t know what they would end up with. Some were junk, some were much more intact.

I thought I was going to have a problem answering this, but I just figured it out. I would want one of the real TARDIS exterior props used in Doctor Who. That blue police box is just such an icon.

Posted on April 5, 2007 at 3:52 pm

Comment by Geof F. Morris

I dunno if the turbo would let you out-run the cops. I’m not sure I can outrun them in mine …

But as for TV props … I’d simply be fine with a working phaser.

Posted on April 5, 2007 at 7:15 pm

Comment by Misty

I’m such a geek girl, I want a food replicator.

Posted on April 5, 2007 at 7:52 pm

Comment by Stephen

We are all nerds. There is no denying it.

I can imagine the stickers that would come with our props. “Does not disintegrate things.” “Unable to move through time at any rate other than 1 s/s.”

Posted on April 7, 2007 at 8:49 am

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