Probably the last post on this blog for a long while but I had to because it's URGENT!
I no longer have the Trans Am I was going to work on. I'm not going to bother to get into it.
I've decided to write a final post because someone I remember from my past popped up on a Knight Rider Facebook page and had this to say with a picture...
"I would like to invite everyone out to our shop this Saturday for the biggest collection of Movie and TV cars ever in Texas!
We will be shooting our TV show "SCREEN MACHINES" and ABC NIGHTLINE will also be covering the event. We will have lots of cool celebrities and contests, just check out the event page for all the details!
See you Saturday!!!"
The truth shall now be set free!!!!
If you want to check out the lovely cars, that's all fine and dandy. However, I would dare not purchase any if I were you because they may look good and what Mr. "Video" Bob says about them may sound GREAT but, take it from a guy who actually bought one close to ten years ago which turned into nothing but a Knightmare!
Bob was curious and asked how everything was going so I sent him a response. Since I had not received any more contact from him, I thought his curiosity killed him like a cat but I was wrong. He's still doing what he does best... making a huge profit by showing off and then selling his half-ass made cars for a profit so he can continue to live large while the others he sells the cars to live broke trying to fix the many repairs the cars need...
Below is the message along with response I sent him in regards to his "curious" email:
Note: The blog links are no longer active because I haven't updated my main website in a long while. However, the blog is still here http://blog.justinrocque.com/ and you can search for the related things if you wish.
Hey, this is Videobob, who sold you the Knight Rider car....
Hey, Videobob, who sold me the Knight Rider car,
This is Justin, the dumb ass, who decided to trust another person once again, who spent a shit load of money and a shit load of time to get the so-called "Knight Rider" car, which after a few months of having it, turned out more into a KNIGHTmare than a dream come true.
You can look at the rest of this blog for sad pictures of how it turned out to be...
I've decided to write a final post because someone I remember from my past popped up on a Knight Rider Facebook page and had this to say with a picture...
"I would like to invite everyone out to our shop this Saturday for the biggest collection of Movie and TV cars ever in Texas!
We will be shooting our TV show "SCREEN MACHINES" and ABC NIGHTLINE will also be covering the event. We will have lots of cool celebrities and contests, just check out the event page for all the details!
See you Saturday!!!"
The truth shall now be set free!!!!
If you want to check out the lovely cars, that's all fine and dandy. However, I would dare not purchase any if I were you because they may look good and what Mr. "Video" Bob says about them may sound GREAT but, take it from a guy who actually bought one close to ten years ago which turned into nothing but a Knightmare!
Bob was curious and asked how everything was going so I sent him a response. Since I had not received any more contact from him, I thought his curiosity killed him like a cat but I was wrong. He's still doing what he does best... making a huge profit by showing off and then selling his half-ass made cars for a profit so he can continue to live large while the others he sells the cars to live broke trying to fix the many repairs the cars need...
Below is the message along with response I sent him in regards to his "curious" email:
Note: The blog links are no longer active because I haven't updated my main website in a long while. However, the blog is still here http://blog.justinrocque.com/ and you can search for the related things if you wish.
Hey, this is Videobob, who sold you the Knight Rider car....
Hey, Videobob, who sold me the Knight Rider car,
This is Justin, the dumb ass, who decided to trust another person once again, who spent a shit load of money and a shit load of time to get the so-called "Knight Rider" car, which after a few months of having it, turned out more into a KNIGHTmare than a dream come true.
I was just curious what you ever did with it (to it)?
Curiosity killed the cat, like my first stripper girlfriend (which lasted for a week) used to say but I'll be a nice guy again and help you with your curiosity, after all, that's what the whole "Knight Rider" show was about and that's one of the reasons why I wanted to get my hands on the car in the first place.
So, you want to know what I did do it?
Well, let's see.......
A couple months after I had it, I decided to have a mechanic friend of my uncles check it out. Long story short, he had to fix the rear brakes because they were not working at all. He noticed some leaks by the valve covers on the engine and also a leak on the bottom of the car where the transmission is. The car was also pretty loud when I brought it over and he said it shouldn't be that way. Apparently there was a big ass hole in the exhaust manifold so he patched that up. After hearing about all that shit, and after having the car for a couple months, I was starting to get a tad pissed and a tad concerned because I remember being told the car was in pretty good drivable condition and didn't really need any work done. Boy........was I surprised and quite shocked. I've been blindly deceived again in my wonderful life!
Feel free to read about this in my blog: http://www.justinrocque.com/blog/2005/07/over-month-now.html
Now comes the new year, where I finally was able to come up with enough money and time to get the tranny leak checked out. Long story short with this one too….. I had to get the tranny rebuilt and some other bottom parts of the car taken care of and there goes… $2300 for that!! It was around that time I started to realize what an ass I really was after spending $16000+ for an almost 20 year old car, with a non-functioning dash and bad transmission. After all, according to the person who sold it to me, there was no mechanical problems with it. I started to think I’ve been lied to about this car now, as far as the mechanical stuff and everything else about it goes. And for $16000+ I spent on this car, I could have gotten a new car with no problems and a warranty; something like a Dodge Magnum maybe or something. But no………I had to get a car close to the age as me from someone I never met before, yet whom I decided to trust anyway with money which wasn’t mine to begin with, a week of time which I really couldn’t spare because I had to find a job, and a drive which almost killed my uncle and I quite a few times on the way and back from Texas. What a fantastic state that was to visit!
Feel free to read about that, here: http://www.justinrocque.com/blog/2006/01/taco-bell-really-is-toxic-hell.html. Oh, and after getting pulled over 6 times because my taillights were too dim…. I had to get those fixed as well and what a chore it was, as you can read on that blog post as well!
Oh, and about the dash, which you said all I’ll need to do was hook up the so-called wire of the speed sensor to the dash, well……. Why don’t you have a read at this:
“Justin,
So you are the one who bought the Videobob car.
Videobob contacted me some time ago and seemed to be willing to fix everything before selling the car and then I did not hear anymore from him.
It is disappointing as your description is very similar to what he wrote to me, not being the original owner himself.
The manuals will surely help. A speed sensor will also help. Trying to do part of the installation yourself might also help unless you find people willing to do this at a stereo shop.
I am not sure where to start, and I know that this will scare you. The set in this car might be a copy of my early design and might never work without modifications. Unfortunately there have been an unknown number of sets produced by fiberglass guys which all seem to have been assembled in the exact same way and on which I always find the same errors. Maybe this is not the case, but it could be. We would need close up pictures of the electronics to find out and I do understand that they are already installed in the car. My best advice at this point would be to take the dash electronics out and to have it tested, calibrated and repaired if needed.
This is a service available from Jupiter.”
I went to Sound Insights to have them check out all the wires and also put that speed sensor wire into that digital speedo but it did not do a damn thing so I emailed Christian for some advice, only to get more pissed about this so-called “Knight Rider” car, which, according to you, was in pretty good condition yet…… there is no working dashboard in the car! And you said it was drivable? Interesting. Oh, and just one more thing about the dash….
The glue liquefied from the heat and eventually the dash just fell apart and the center dash cluster is out so now the dash is just a piece of fiberglass with a bunch of wires clumped in it. Oh, and about those wonderful 2-Tvs in the dash too, which, according to yourself, “just have to be hooked up to work…….” DO NOT WORK AT ALL!! They are broken TV’s. It’s probably because it’s a 10 year old dash which probably never worked anyway but just lit up like a damn Christmas tree. You can read a little more about that here: http://www.justinrocque.com/blog/2005/06/here-i-am-again.html
And here is some info regarding the nose, which had a noticeable dent on it near the scanner when I first got it anyways, even though you said on the site there was no dents or scratches, http://www.justinrocque.com/blog/2005/05/here-he-is.html. Now I guess I had more of an excuse to get a new one of that, which I then purchased (out of my own pocket!), http://www.justinrocque.com/blog/2005/12/not-worth-updating-with-all-negativity.html.
And here is some info regarding the leaks on the engine getting fixed, which cost another chunk of…….$300+ http://www.justinrocque.com/blog/2006/04/another-fucking-day-another-fucking.html
And here is some more updates for you about my car, and as you’ve probably noticed, my fantastic life I’ve been living…. http://www.justinrocque.com/blog/blogger.html.
Does all of that fill your thirst of curiosity? I sure do hope so because it’s took me around 2hrs to type all the above in my shitty security booth with only 3hrs of sleep today because, as you'll find out in my blog, I work 2 jobs, 70hrs+ a week, and sleep only 4hrs a day because most of the money I've been getting has been going to this car and my other debts because of it......
Oh, and one more thing…..as far as the brand new weather-stripping with non-leaky t-tops… well, let’s just say I went through an automatic car wash for a test and…..forgot to put on my swimsuit! So much for non-leaky t-tops, which I heard someone say as well…….
And how can the weather-stripping be new, if, after only a few months, started to crack and chip away? I wonder…….
Oh and one last thing… about that gullwing “death wheel,” well, one knight on my way to my security job, while making a turn, the gullwing kept turning without even turning the wheels so… long story short and after almost dying……the wheel stripped and I had to spend another $40 to get a round one. So much for the Knight Rider "Gullwing" affect, which will cost another......$900 I do not have to get replaced......
How long have you had this car for again? A month or more? And you did not notice any of these issues at all??? If not, I find that quite surprising. Oh, and I forgot to mention…..non-working windshield wiper fluid! As much as I’d like to get that fixed in case I get some good luck bird do on my windshield, I just have no money to do that non-crucial thing. Oh, and I won’t get into the whole A/C thing because that’s another story…..
Do you have a web page?
Why, of course! Here it is www.justinrocque.com. You can also look at my blog for info about my fantastic (sarcasm, if you didn't already notice) life as it stands right now…… http://www.justinrocque.com/blog/blogger.html. And here is my knight rider-based one, which hasn’t been updated in quite a while because I’ve been busy working 70hrs+ with about 4hrs of sleep a day with nothing to show for it but no personal life (at least when only working and not hanging out with people, I'll be less likely to get screwed again!) and a trailor trash-looking car..... http://www.knightindustries2000.com/
Car shows?
After all the above, what’s to show now? A $16,500 trans am worth no more than $6,000 now with a non-functioning dash, scraped nose, dented fender, round steering wheel, etc.? I was going to bring it back to that Hooters in Tallahassee but....... at this rate, It'll probably be another 10 years.
Any upgrades?
Is the rebuilt tranny considered an upgrade? How about the upgraded “steering wheel’? Or the upgraded alternator, which cost $250? Or maybe the upgraded windows, which are now tinted because I'd get heat stroke without a tint because of lack of A/C? Or the upgraded front brakes or maybe the upgraded nose and scanner, which have not been installed yet because I have less than $200 in my bank account and still can’t seem to find a left fender anywhere? Or maybe the "upgrade" of glueing the rear-view mirror back on.........after getting pulled over for driving with only the fog lights on because they were bright enough at 2AM with nobody around and after a fucking ticket for not having the rear view mirror on and a warning for not having the headlights on. There went another $20 with the god damn cost of the police officer looking at the damn thing to make sure it was on, signing the ticket, and another $10 or so for the court cost of them putting it in the system and another $5 or so for the damn kit do glue it back on KITT! Yea........thanks! Yet I still, for some odd reason, think about becoming a cop in this city.
Just curious.....
Too bad I didn’t use my curiosity to search on the wonderful web before I bought the car because after doing a search about it on google and on the Knight Registries about it, and emailing Christian about it, I’d probably have you drop the price down way more… because after all, all you sold me was a trans am, with a lit up non-functioning dash, leaky engine, bad tranny, stripped wheel, etc.….I also wish I had kept the Firebird I had before this one so I can use that as an actual “drivable” car until this one is fixed because it’s been risky every damn day now and I’m lucky I just got one speeding ticket so far! I wonder where that Firebird is. Maybe it too got sold on Ebay for $10,000 to some sucker like me? The only cool thing right now about it is having quite a bit of people notice it every week but…….. It sucks because there’s nothing really to show, which ends up making me more pissed but that's my life as I know it; too much bull shit and not enough good shit to even out.
Oh, btw, just outa curiosity, how is that Delorean doing? Also, how is that NEW Magnum you got with all that money you weaseled me through that prop "Knight Rider" car?
- VB
- JR
Curiosity killed the cat, like my first stripper girlfriend (which lasted for a week) used to say but I'll be a nice guy again and help you with your curiosity, after all, that's what the whole "Knight Rider" show was about and that's one of the reasons why I wanted to get my hands on the car in the first place.
So, you want to know what I did do it?
Well, let's see.......
A couple months after I had it, I decided to have a mechanic friend of my uncles check it out. Long story short, he had to fix the rear brakes because they were not working at all. He noticed some leaks by the valve covers on the engine and also a leak on the bottom of the car where the transmission is. The car was also pretty loud when I brought it over and he said it shouldn't be that way. Apparently there was a big ass hole in the exhaust manifold so he patched that up. After hearing about all that shit, and after having the car for a couple months, I was starting to get a tad pissed and a tad concerned because I remember being told the car was in pretty good drivable condition and didn't really need any work done. Boy........was I surprised and quite shocked. I've been blindly deceived again in my wonderful life!
Feel free to read about this in my blog: http://www.justinrocque.com/blog/2005/07/over-month-now.html
Now comes the new year, where I finally was able to come up with enough money and time to get the tranny leak checked out. Long story short with this one too….. I had to get the tranny rebuilt and some other bottom parts of the car taken care of and there goes… $2300 for that!! It was around that time I started to realize what an ass I really was after spending $16000+ for an almost 20 year old car, with a non-functioning dash and bad transmission. After all, according to the person who sold it to me, there was no mechanical problems with it. I started to think I’ve been lied to about this car now, as far as the mechanical stuff and everything else about it goes. And for $16000+ I spent on this car, I could have gotten a new car with no problems and a warranty; something like a Dodge Magnum maybe or something. But no………I had to get a car close to the age as me from someone I never met before, yet whom I decided to trust anyway with money which wasn’t mine to begin with, a week of time which I really couldn’t spare because I had to find a job, and a drive which almost killed my uncle and I quite a few times on the way and back from Texas. What a fantastic state that was to visit!
Feel free to read about that, here: http://www.justinrocque.com/blog/2006/01/taco-bell-really-is-toxic-hell.html. Oh, and after getting pulled over 6 times because my taillights were too dim…. I had to get those fixed as well and what a chore it was, as you can read on that blog post as well!
Oh, and about the dash, which you said all I’ll need to do was hook up the so-called wire of the speed sensor to the dash, well……. Why don’t you have a read at this:
“Justin,
So you are the one who bought the Videobob car.
Videobob contacted me some time ago and seemed to be willing to fix everything before selling the car and then I did not hear anymore from him.
It is disappointing as your description is very similar to what he wrote to me, not being the original owner himself.
The manuals will surely help. A speed sensor will also help. Trying to do part of the installation yourself might also help unless you find people willing to do this at a stereo shop.
I am not sure where to start, and I know that this will scare you. The set in this car might be a copy of my early design and might never work without modifications. Unfortunately there have been an unknown number of sets produced by fiberglass guys which all seem to have been assembled in the exact same way and on which I always find the same errors. Maybe this is not the case, but it could be. We would need close up pictures of the electronics to find out and I do understand that they are already installed in the car. My best advice at this point would be to take the dash electronics out and to have it tested, calibrated and repaired if needed.
This is a service available from Jupiter.”
I went to Sound Insights to have them check out all the wires and also put that speed sensor wire into that digital speedo but it did not do a damn thing so I emailed Christian for some advice, only to get more pissed about this so-called “Knight Rider” car, which, according to you, was in pretty good condition yet…… there is no working dashboard in the car! And you said it was drivable? Interesting. Oh, and just one more thing about the dash….
The glue liquefied from the heat and eventually the dash just fell apart and the center dash cluster is out so now the dash is just a piece of fiberglass with a bunch of wires clumped in it. Oh, and about those wonderful 2-Tvs in the dash too, which, according to yourself, “just have to be hooked up to work…….” DO NOT WORK AT ALL!! They are broken TV’s. It’s probably because it’s a 10 year old dash which probably never worked anyway but just lit up like a damn Christmas tree. You can read a little more about that here: http://www.justinrocque.com/blog/2005/06/here-i-am-again.html
And here is some info regarding the nose, which had a noticeable dent on it near the scanner when I first got it anyways, even though you said on the site there was no dents or scratches, http://www.justinrocque.com/blog/2005/05/here-he-is.html. Now I guess I had more of an excuse to get a new one of that, which I then purchased (out of my own pocket!), http://www.justinrocque.com/blog/2005/12/not-worth-updating-with-all-negativity.html.
And here is some info regarding the leaks on the engine getting fixed, which cost another chunk of…….$300+ http://www.justinrocque.com/blog/2006/04/another-fucking-day-another-fucking.html
And here is some more updates for you about my car, and as you’ve probably noticed, my fantastic life I’ve been living…. http://www.justinrocque.com/blog/blogger.html.
Does all of that fill your thirst of curiosity? I sure do hope so because it’s took me around 2hrs to type all the above in my shitty security booth with only 3hrs of sleep today because, as you'll find out in my blog, I work 2 jobs, 70hrs+ a week, and sleep only 4hrs a day because most of the money I've been getting has been going to this car and my other debts because of it......
Oh, and one more thing…..as far as the brand new weather-stripping with non-leaky t-tops… well, let’s just say I went through an automatic car wash for a test and…..forgot to put on my swimsuit! So much for non-leaky t-tops, which I heard someone say as well…….
And how can the weather-stripping be new, if, after only a few months, started to crack and chip away? I wonder…….
Oh and one last thing… about that gullwing “death wheel,” well, one knight on my way to my security job, while making a turn, the gullwing kept turning without even turning the wheels so… long story short and after almost dying……the wheel stripped and I had to spend another $40 to get a round one. So much for the Knight Rider "Gullwing" affect, which will cost another......$900 I do not have to get replaced......
How long have you had this car for again? A month or more? And you did not notice any of these issues at all??? If not, I find that quite surprising. Oh, and I forgot to mention…..non-working windshield wiper fluid! As much as I’d like to get that fixed in case I get some good luck bird do on my windshield, I just have no money to do that non-crucial thing. Oh, and I won’t get into the whole A/C thing because that’s another story…..
Do you have a web page?
Why, of course! Here it is www.justinrocque.com. You can also look at my blog for info about my fantastic (sarcasm, if you didn't already notice) life as it stands right now…… http://www.justinrocque.com/blog/blogger.html. And here is my knight rider-based one, which hasn’t been updated in quite a while because I’ve been busy working 70hrs+ with about 4hrs of sleep a day with nothing to show for it but no personal life (at least when only working and not hanging out with people, I'll be less likely to get screwed again!) and a trailor trash-looking car..... http://www.knightindustries2000.com/
Car shows?
After all the above, what’s to show now? A $16,500 trans am worth no more than $6,000 now with a non-functioning dash, scraped nose, dented fender, round steering wheel, etc.? I was going to bring it back to that Hooters in Tallahassee but....... at this rate, It'll probably be another 10 years.
Any upgrades?
Is the rebuilt tranny considered an upgrade? How about the upgraded “steering wheel’? Or the upgraded alternator, which cost $250? Or maybe the upgraded windows, which are now tinted because I'd get heat stroke without a tint because of lack of A/C? Or the upgraded front brakes or maybe the upgraded nose and scanner, which have not been installed yet because I have less than $200 in my bank account and still can’t seem to find a left fender anywhere? Or maybe the "upgrade" of glueing the rear-view mirror back on.........after getting pulled over for driving with only the fog lights on because they were bright enough at 2AM with nobody around and after a fucking ticket for not having the rear view mirror on and a warning for not having the headlights on. There went another $20 with the god damn cost of the police officer looking at the damn thing to make sure it was on, signing the ticket, and another $10 or so for the court cost of them putting it in the system and another $5 or so for the damn kit do glue it back on KITT! Yea........thanks! Yet I still, for some odd reason, think about becoming a cop in this city.
Just curious.....
Too bad I didn’t use my curiosity to search on the wonderful web before I bought the car because after doing a search about it on google and on the Knight Registries about it, and emailing Christian about it, I’d probably have you drop the price down way more… because after all, all you sold me was a trans am, with a lit up non-functioning dash, leaky engine, bad tranny, stripped wheel, etc.….I also wish I had kept the Firebird I had before this one so I can use that as an actual “drivable” car until this one is fixed because it’s been risky every damn day now and I’m lucky I just got one speeding ticket so far! I wonder where that Firebird is. Maybe it too got sold on Ebay for $10,000 to some sucker like me? The only cool thing right now about it is having quite a bit of people notice it every week but…….. It sucks because there’s nothing really to show, which ends up making me more pissed but that's my life as I know it; too much bull shit and not enough good shit to even out.
Oh, btw, just outa curiosity, how is that Delorean doing? Also, how is that NEW Magnum you got with all that money you weaseled me through that prop "Knight Rider" car?
- VB
- JR
So, there you have it! If you do decide to go to Bob's lovely Prop Shop, do me a favor and hand him a bag because he'll need that to empty the shit he's probably still been full of all these years!
There it was all pretty and ready to be sold....
There it was all pretty and ready to be sold....
You can look at the rest of this blog for sad pictures of how it turned out to be...
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