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When I was 16 years old the Berlin Wall came down and I (having grown up in East Germany) finally was able to watch West German TV. The first thing we ever saw was "Knight Rider". I fell in love with the show and wanted my own K.I.T.T. In East Germany it was usual to just make the things you could not buy. So I did.

Of course it is totally not in scale but all I had were videos and pictures from books. And I realized that the buttons were different in every episode. But still I am very proud of it to this day with all the thought that I put into it.

The model in it's full glory. The tires are from an old toy car of my little brother, but I made everything else myself:





The bottom side:



I drew all the little lines and such for the displays (and the red/white/green buttons next to the steering wheel drove me crazy, as the arrangement changed from episode to episode - for whichever special features they needed).
The monitors are made that way that I can insert different pictures:





The number plate is just a sticker from a bubble gum - anyone interested in a few extra stickers of Devon, Michael and Bonnie?



Of course also the doors and roof top can be opened. You also can turn the wheel and move the gear shift. The seats are just a bit of paper wrapped with wool, and when I figured I could not put them directly onto the bottom or there would be no room for legs I used part of a cork.







And the side mirrors even have little mirror foil in them, another thing that happened to be left over from the things in a surprise egg.



I don't know anymore what kind of plastic I used for the windows and windshield (the back window was a bit tricky to bring into the rounded form), but it may be from the wrapping of a praline box or something.

So, basically, since I was a child, I collected all kind of things and stuff, with the intention of "one day I might have a use for it". And one day, several years later, I usually have. At other times I look at something and immediately have an idea how to use it.

Of course I also made the lamps so that they can be turned in and out. (Sorry, the shot is a bit blurry)



The lamps are made from the inside of a "Surprise Egg". You know these? Chocolate egg with a little toy inside?

I even invented an action figure! Without knowing anything about them, I realized that I need joints. Pretty good, eh? I just can't sew so Michael never got clothes:



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