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| Posted 12/31/2005 7:16:37 PM |
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I was just a kid when that show was on the air ... didnt one of them get stolen from the set or somthing ?
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| Posted 1/2/2006 2:53:23 AM |
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Since this started out as a Delorean thread...
Here's a pic of the Coyote that was made from a Delorean for the second season when Brian Keith refused to return unless he was given a car with actual DOORS!
Here's the one I got from Jay that was used in the opening credits where it crashes. If you check out that Planet Hollywood post, you'll see the wreckage in the background of my pic of the 50 Merc. The damaged front end was replaced with the front clip from the Knight Rider 4000 car and a 6 foot WB Tazmanian Devil was added to the back deck and this car became "The TAZ Car".
Here's the one that's for sale...
And here's why I DON'T keep a Coyote for myself...
I don't fit in the damn things!
But I've never heard of one being stolen from the set. I HAVE heard that the jump car was "stolen" from the lot. This is not true but it WAS sold out the back door from the Universal Florida backlot. They were just tired of looking at it.
    
"Where does he get those wonderful toys?"
He MAKES them you idiot!
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| Posted 1/2/2006 9:41:46 AM |
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As long as this has sort of morphed into a show cars thread, does anyone know if the A team Van was also sold off of the backlot. I remember seeing it sitting years ago when I was at Universal on a tour.
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| Posted 1/2/2006 4:08:47 PM |
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Yep...
I bought it. Along with the Death Race 2000 Sterling, the Griffmobile and the probe.
Jeff from BTTF.com got the taxi at the same sale.
I rolled the Van to the Star Cars Museum in England.
No girlie pics. sorry. This was a direct shipment from the seller to England and I sent Sharp and one of my friends to take pics for me before it got hauled to Long Beach pier. Star Cars has two more toys to be delivered. The last one I'm taking over personally, so I'll shoot some current A-Team van pics then. I'm taking a TG or two so maybe we'll get some local girls to join in and well make up a new all chick "A-team" for the photo. (Would that be "The T&A-Team" then?)
"Where does he get those wonderful toys?"
He MAKES them you idiot!
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| Posted 1/2/2006 4:55:51 PM |
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That is too sweet. I used to think you were just this amazingly talented super lucky guy. Now I think your an amazingly talented amazingly lucky guy who's owned almost every sweet vehicle at one time or another. I may have to put togther an A-team van some day. Just to haul parts for the 89 build... Who bought the BTTF part 3 delorean in the pic above? I don;t suppose you've owned the streethawk cycle or maybe Airwolf? 
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| Posted 1/2/2006 8:13:05 PM |
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| Posted 1/3/2006 3:25:23 AM |
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Matt, the sticker on the Delorean was 20K. Waaaay too much for a car in that condition. Don't know if it sold. But I do know that the pink caddy didn't and is still on the lot. The Delorean might still be as well.
I got a deal on the van, the cost was a little over 5K. Didn't run... was a stunt van with the engine in the middle for jumps. Real ratty inside. I had my friend from LA who took the second photo remove the spare wheel you can see in the corner of the photo. It's still at his house, I'm gonna put a piece of glass over it and use it for a coffee table.
As for the Street Hawk... I'd like to say "YES" but the deal went bad and I never got it.
There was only one bike. Built on a Honda dirt bike. It was purchased by a Knight Rider replica builder in Orlando.
Through a mutual friend, I found out that he purchased the molds for the Knight 4000 but didn't have an original dash for it or an original single screen 4th season dash. I loaned them to him as well as an original hubcap from the Clooney Batmobile. As I was going to be purchasing the Street Hawk from him, this was another instance of my "taking care of my friends" and I let him pull molds from them to be able to offer replicas to his clients.
To make this short, he refused to return them and I drove down there to collect my property after one year. Then... he refused to return them to my face.
WRONG ANSWER!!!!!
I made a phone call and had his Knight 4000 molds confiscated from his storage facility.
He gave my dashes up pretty quickly after that. But swung at me with one of them.
THAT... ended my chances of buying the Street Hawk and he sold it on eBay for 15 grand to a buyer in the U.K.
When the show was still on the air, I considered making one and purchased the closest vehicle I could find for a donor. That was a 1981 Yamaha Vision. I drove it around for a few years, never got around to cutting it up. But I never sold it.
Amusingly enough...
It happens to be the very same bike we're cutting up on TunerGirlz to make the TunerBat bike. You can see the similarities in the photo below.
As for the Airwolf.
It was stripped of it's custom parts...
then sold from the studio to a German Rescue service and it crashed in the mountains on a return flight from a successful mission.
There was a stunt chopper that was eventually painted as "Red Wolf" for the final season. It survives and has been repainted as Air Wolf and is still quite enjoyed by its owner.
I get offered the original spare parts to convert a Bell 223 at least once a year.
Silent Bob used to collect prototypes and military mockup aircraft and he came into posession of a cool looking helicopter and Universal came to him to rent it for the revival of Air Wolf. We called it "Airwolf II" and I'm sure Mark remembers this vehicle well.
I wanted to buy it for years and Bob eventually GAVE it to me when he was cleaning house. Transport problems caused me to leave it there too long and Bob trashed it along with the molds to make more.
My loss...
These days, the only chopper I have is the remains of the Magnum P.I. TC chopper.
It's in bad shape, but I'll get around to cleaning it up eventually. It will never fly again, but it's gonna make a cool lawn ornament. I'm gonna mock up a helipad with blue lights and a wind sock on the front lawn when it's finished and freak out the neighbors. :laugh
"Where does he get those wonderful toys?"
He MAKES them you idiot!
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| Posted 1/3/2006 9:56:41 AM |
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Amazing. It's simply crazy that any tv or film vehicle I can think of you've owned, own, or know exactly what happened to it. It's a shame about the airwolf deal, that would have also been a cool lawn ornament. I heard they had plenty of crashing problems during filming as well. The TC chopper is sweet though. When you tell people to come over, you won;t have to say - "mine is the third house on the right, the white one", you can say "I'm on XX street - just drive till you see the chopper in the front yard."
Thanks for the pics and info! So, what's the "TunerGirlz show"?
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| Posted 1/3/2006 1:11:49 PM |
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