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Black beauty: Mr Matthew Webster and his 1982 Trans Am, which is older than he is.
ST PHOTO: JASON QUAH
Edric Pan
SINGAPORE – To readers who grew up in the 1980s, the car featured here may revive hazy memories of a slightly cheesy television series called Knight Rider.
In the original series, which ran from 1982 to 1986, lead actor David Hasselhoff’s character was assisted by a talking, self-aware, self-driving Pontiac Firebird Trans Am named Kitt (short for Knight Industries Two Thousand) in his weekly mission to fight the baddies.
