These images were taken around 2004, just after the interior of K.I.T.T. came together — the dashboard, the armrest console, the overhead console, the front nose, and all the scanner components and subsystems that make the car feel alive. What you're seeing here isn't quite the car as it sits today; back then, K.I.T.T. wasn't yet running the full sound system it carries now.
The original setup was built around a "removable" sound system — a deliberate choice to keep theft at bay. The serious gear, the amplifiers and subwoofers, was all portable, so I could pull it out and leave nothing behind but a baseline stereo to play music without lying awake worrying about somebody walking off with thousands of dollars of equipment. That system evolved into what it is today when my friend Joe Paquette introduced me to another genuinely ingenious guy, Thomas William Holmes III (passed 2011 — rest his soul). Tom took something that was already great and quietly built it into something awesome.
The final results are what you see in the gallery. A special thanks goes out to my family and friends, to Joe Paquette and his family, and to Thomas Holmes III and his family, for all the time, effort, and patience it took to get me across the goal line on K.I.T.T.. Everybody pitched in on the sound system's design and installation in one way or another — but I'll say this plainly: without these two, Tom and Joe, what you're looking at simply wouldn't exist.
The car remains in this same configuration today, and it'll most likely stay that way no matter what new technology comes along. Some projects you chase forever — this is one I was finally happy to call finished.
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