Gumball 3000 Rally With KITT
September 4, 2008 – 8:34 pm PT by MikeTags: Gumball 3000, Ronnie Renner —
To you youngins today I ask you a question. How would you feel if you had a chance to drive Speed Racer’s car at triple digit speeds? Or for you old timers, how would you feel if you had the opportunity to drive around with Herby The Love Bug? Pretty awesome huh? Well for my generation, one lucky Moto X guy got the once if in lifetime offer to drive KITT (Knight Industries Two Thousand) at the Gumball 3000.
Ronnie Renner who regularly flaunts his skills on a bike was given the opportunity to drive a good portion of the race while David Hasselhoff took a break. For those of you who are unfamiliar with KITT, check out the video below. And don’t let the music fool you; it’s not Busta Rhymes.
Luckily Ronnie blogged his experience driving KITT around for EXPN.
Well, my little buddy Georgie Fetcher from Masters of Dirt in Austria called me and mentioned that he was putting together a car to drive the Gumball 3000 Rally and asked if I wanted to drive for a portion of it. Before I even found out I would be driving KITT from Knight Rider, I said yes. Then he mentioned that he was going to do it in one of the original Knight Rider cars, I told myself I HAD to do it. Unfortunately, I was only able to drive one day due to my crazy schedule, but let me tell you, I made the most of it!
The MOD crew allowed me to drive the 2nd days leg from LA to San Diego. I showed up in Hollywood the night before the big drive and coincidentally ran into the MOD/Fuel Girls crew just 200 feet from the 101 and Hollywood Blvd split, where KIT decided to take a siesta while they were driving him. I was treated to helping push the 1982 Trans Am almost 2.5 miles to the rendezvous point near all the tourist crap.
Read the rest of the post at EXPN.
3 Responses to “Gumball 3000 Rally With KITT”
If you’re going to simply take blog post that Ronnie Renner wrote exclusively for The Brap Haps on EXPN.com, wouldn’t it be proper to at least show a little love and state your source? Seems a bit fishy to be using exclusive material from other blogs and claiming it as your own. Just looking for a little love/link back you know? Sounds fair to me.
Ryan Leyba
Associate Editor/Moto Columnist - EXPN
By Ryan Leyba/EXPN.com on Sep 5, 2008
Sure, the source should be posted. To be clear, we never claimed it to be our own — we said Renner blogged it but didn’t mention where. Sorry for the oversight. It’s been added.
By Greg on Sep 6, 2008
Thanks so much for showing love to the source. I really appreciated it. Keep up the super radical, on point coverage.
Ryan
By Ryan Leyba on Sep 7, 2008