I used to work on a lot of film/TV related car models. Here are some of the ones I've done.
The vehicles of Team Knight Rider
Dante and Beast
Kat and Plato
Domino
Knight Rider
Now, I will admit, back in 2005, before I went off to FSU, I got fed up with seeing all of the KR users posting pictures of flashy and expensive cars for their idea on what KITT should be. I've seen Jaguars, BMWs and several other exotic vehicles made. One day in March, I finally put my foot down and told people the truth about KITT in the original series. That truth was this: What made KITT so cool was not the fact that it was a technologically advanced vehicle, but a technologically advanced vehicle INSIDE an ordinary average car! From the outside, KITT didn't look at all different from any other Trans-Am out on the road (it was a running joke throughout most of the series, for crying out loud!). If KITT needed to trail someone, no one would notice it because it didn't stick out. All those exotic cars people posted about went against that concept. And since the 2005 Ford Mustang was about to be released, I felt it was the best vehicle for KITT because there would be a lot of them on the road and it would be easy to integrate the technology without it standing out when the situation called for it. So, I took a die cast 2005 Ford Mustang model and made light alterations to create my idea on what KITT should be. I used a piece of a bottle cap to make a scanner light unit and I used a piece of window tinting to "tint" the glass T-top pieces for the roof. Ironically, three years later, "Knight Rider" came back on the air with a new series, in which KITT is in a 2008 Shelby Mustang GT500KR (man, I was close!). Anyways, here's the pictures of the die-cast KITT:
Now, I did do a similar thing with KARR. I had bought two 1999 Pontiac Trans-Ams back in 2000 which I had planned on making a modern KITT and KARR in (at the time). I never got around to doing the 1999 Trans-Am KITT, but I did do the 1999 Trans-Am KARR. I used half of a bottle cap to create the scanner unit, and I used a dremel tool to cut into the metal to fit the piece in.
I am a fan of the movie "Vanishing Point" (1971). I was probably the only person in my town that knew what "Vanishing Point" was before Tarantino brought it to the front of pop culture once again with his movie "Death Proof". This is a die cast model, built straight from the box.
Now, this is one I'm definitely proud of. This is a 1969 Pontiac Firebird. But it's not just any Firebird. This is meant to be a representation of the 1969 Pontiac Firebird driven by the character of Niobe (Jada Pinkett-Smith) in both "The Matrix Reloaded" and the "Enter the Matrix" game. The model isn't 100% constructed (mainly the engine is only partially constructed with the hood glued down. Since we never see the engine in the film or the game, it seemed rather fitting gluing down the hood and only constructing the bottom of the engine to give a complete appearance). This was built straight from the box, utilizing pieces from the race car version of the vehicle and mixing them with the stock version so to get the muscle car appearance from the film and the game. And I used window tinting on the windshields, but the front mainly because of the glue I was using messed up the windshield. It definitely helped in keeping the problem from being noticed.