COCHES FANTASTICOS 2007!! Knight Rider Convention in Spain.
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COCHES FANTASTICOS 2007!! Knight Rider Convention in Spain.
Hello all KR fans, from Spain:
I want to announce that ELCOCHEFANTASTICO.NET is working in a new Knight Rider and American Car meeting in Spain. It will take on 21th, 22th of April 2007, just in 2 months.
It will be located in Benidorm (Alicante) Spain, and in my honest opinion it will be a convention similar to KNIGHT CON in Germany (2004). Its name is "COCHES FANTASTICOS 2007" (just "FANTASTIC CARS 2007" traslated into english. Keep in mind that KNIGHT RIDER was named "EL COCHE FANTÁSTICO" in Spain). We have lots of replica projects starting in Spain. We hope to have some of them almost completed. It will be american classic cars there, rare to see in Spain, like Mustangs, Corvettes, etc... We hope to receive arround 15 to 30 3rd gen Firebirds with KITT replica project started the major part of them, and some other american cars. This is the second year we have this convention (first with american classic cars). We think we will receive arround 100 people registered.
The meeting will be in two days: the first day in the morning, we will stay at the city council of BENIDORM where the cars will be parked for exposition. In the evening we have 1/4 mile (200 mts.) acceleration testings in LA NUCIA, will have a pair of cruisings througt Benidorm and other towns near Benidorm, (famous holidays beach town in Spain) at midday and at night. We have permissions from the police to have the KR license plates installed and scanner started during the cruisings and they will guide us. The second day will be in a theme park "TERRA MÍTICA", where KITT will appear in the park. The KITT replicas will stay inside the park and you can have fun with the thrill rides, like coasters... We have a special guest, "Jose Luis Angulo", who was the dubbing actor voice of Michael Knight in Spain.
We will stay at a 4 stars hotel, with housing and breakfast. The dinners and supper will be in typical restaurants (want paella?), and at saturday night we have a music rock group ELECTRIK LARRY at "CAFE ROCK KENTUCKY", were the party will be assured! Presents and T-Shirts also included, as the ticket entrance to TERRA MITICA theme park and dinner in a restaurant of TERRA MITICA for Sunday.
The price for all this complete weekend is 120 € (arround $150).
Some of Spanish national TV channels will be there to do TV reports. We tried to contact some celebrities to come to Spain, but it is difficult for us, because perhaps they will not be able to attend a meeting like this, and of course in Spain, far from the US. Any idea or helping will be much appreciated. Also, any idea for the convention will be considerated.
Here are some links from our forum (in spanish, sorry), hotel, Benidorm and Terra Mítica.
http://www.elcochefantastico.net/phpbb/ ... .php?t=892
http://www.albirplayahotel.com
http://www.caferockkentucky.com
http://www.benidorm.org/portal/ and one different link in english http://www.alicante-spain.com/benidorm.html
http://www.terramiticapark.com/
The Alicante airport is an hour close to Benidorm. Valencia Airport is about 1:15 hours far, and Madrid about 3:30.
I take advantage to introduce myself for those people who don´t know about me: I am CABALLERO2000 and I owned the first finished (exterior) replica in Spain until the past year. I am involved in the project since 2000. I am now working in a new KR project, and I think it will be finished for this summer, exterior and interior. I found a GTA with very low miles, 5.7 black, T-Top and tan interior. I think it is a very good donor car for starting again.
Here is my KnightReplicas register link:
http://www.knightreplicas.com/database/ ... licaID=481
I do not write too much in outside Spain forums, but I read you quite often. I have contact with some of you, fans and customers, but by e-mail generally. I contacted personally with my friends Joao da Encarnaçao, Mike Pajaro before writing in the forums (I met them in Knight-Con 04) and Dominic Humlot asking them for coming to the convention and I hope that they can come.
We need to give congratulations to LOFER (ELCOCHEFANTASTICO.NET webmaster), for his hard work for the convention. He started the KR spanish website arround 2003, together with my personal website. He started the forum where we have arround 350 active members, and he is allways in contact with UNIVERSAL PICTURES SPAIN for all refering KNIGHT RIDER in our country. We will have a extra booklet (writed by us) in the 4th season DVD pack of Spain LOL!!!
If you need help for how to coming, please, ask us!! All you are invited to come!! Please, contact us at correo@elcochefantastico.net (LOFER's email). We also will keep an eye at this posts, of course.
Thanks for reading,
Javi. Caballero2000.
Some Pics:
The first ECF convention the past year.
I want to announce that ELCOCHEFANTASTICO.NET is working in a new Knight Rider and American Car meeting in Spain. It will take on 21th, 22th of April 2007, just in 2 months.
It will be located in Benidorm (Alicante) Spain, and in my honest opinion it will be a convention similar to KNIGHT CON in Germany (2004). Its name is "COCHES FANTASTICOS 2007" (just "FANTASTIC CARS 2007" traslated into english. Keep in mind that KNIGHT RIDER was named "EL COCHE FANTÁSTICO" in Spain). We have lots of replica projects starting in Spain. We hope to have some of them almost completed. It will be american classic cars there, rare to see in Spain, like Mustangs, Corvettes, etc... We hope to receive arround 15 to 30 3rd gen Firebirds with KITT replica project started the major part of them, and some other american cars. This is the second year we have this convention (first with american classic cars). We think we will receive arround 100 people registered.
The meeting will be in two days: the first day in the morning, we will stay at the city council of BENIDORM where the cars will be parked for exposition. In the evening we have 1/4 mile (200 mts.) acceleration testings in LA NUCIA, will have a pair of cruisings througt Benidorm and other towns near Benidorm, (famous holidays beach town in Spain) at midday and at night. We have permissions from the police to have the KR license plates installed and scanner started during the cruisings and they will guide us. The second day will be in a theme park "TERRA MÍTICA", where KITT will appear in the park. The KITT replicas will stay inside the park and you can have fun with the thrill rides, like coasters... We have a special guest, "Jose Luis Angulo", who was the dubbing actor voice of Michael Knight in Spain.
We will stay at a 4 stars hotel, with housing and breakfast. The dinners and supper will be in typical restaurants (want paella?), and at saturday night we have a music rock group ELECTRIK LARRY at "CAFE ROCK KENTUCKY", were the party will be assured! Presents and T-Shirts also included, as the ticket entrance to TERRA MITICA theme park and dinner in a restaurant of TERRA MITICA for Sunday.
The price for all this complete weekend is 120 € (arround $150).
Some of Spanish national TV channels will be there to do TV reports. We tried to contact some celebrities to come to Spain, but it is difficult for us, because perhaps they will not be able to attend a meeting like this, and of course in Spain, far from the US. Any idea or helping will be much appreciated. Also, any idea for the convention will be considerated.
Here are some links from our forum (in spanish, sorry), hotel, Benidorm and Terra Mítica.
http://www.elcochefantastico.net/phpbb/ ... .php?t=892
http://www.albirplayahotel.com
http://www.caferockkentucky.com
http://www.benidorm.org/portal/ and one different link in english http://www.alicante-spain.com/benidorm.html
http://www.terramiticapark.com/
The Alicante airport is an hour close to Benidorm. Valencia Airport is about 1:15 hours far, and Madrid about 3:30.
I take advantage to introduce myself for those people who don´t know about me: I am CABALLERO2000 and I owned the first finished (exterior) replica in Spain until the past year. I am involved in the project since 2000. I am now working in a new KR project, and I think it will be finished for this summer, exterior and interior. I found a GTA with very low miles, 5.7 black, T-Top and tan interior. I think it is a very good donor car for starting again.
Here is my KnightReplicas register link:
http://www.knightreplicas.com/database/ ... licaID=481
I do not write too much in outside Spain forums, but I read you quite often. I have contact with some of you, fans and customers, but by e-mail generally. I contacted personally with my friends Joao da Encarnaçao, Mike Pajaro before writing in the forums (I met them in Knight-Con 04) and Dominic Humlot asking them for coming to the convention and I hope that they can come.
We need to give congratulations to LOFER (ELCOCHEFANTASTICO.NET webmaster), for his hard work for the convention. He started the KR spanish website arround 2003, together with my personal website. He started the forum where we have arround 350 active members, and he is allways in contact with UNIVERSAL PICTURES SPAIN for all refering KNIGHT RIDER in our country. We will have a extra booklet (writed by us) in the 4th season DVD pack of Spain LOL!!!
If you need help for how to coming, please, ask us!! All you are invited to come!! Please, contact us at correo@elcochefantastico.net (LOFER's email). We also will keep an eye at this posts, of course.
Thanks for reading,
Javi. Caballero2000.
Some Pics:
The first ECF convention the past year.
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I met Javi at KnightCon in Germany and we hit it off immediately. We spent several days together at the convention. He's a great fan and a great person, and this should be a fantastic event. I especially encourage people in the U.S. who have not travelled overseas before to look into going. What better way to visit a new country than to be surrounded by your fellow Knight Rider fans?
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And it was so huge!!!!
First photos of COCHES FANTASTICOS 2007
First official photo in BENIDORM
On route to LA NUCIA
1/8 mile race in LA NUCIA: The first KARR two tone in Europe (owned by ESCRIBANSEN from FRAGA -HUESCA- SPAIN) in a race with CRAKOMAN's KITT. KITT wins in the 2 races against KARR!!!
Another images of our 1/8 mile race: CAMAROs, FIREBIRDs, CORVETTEs... The start judge was CABALLERO2000
The third town we meet was ALFAZ DEL PI...
On sunday we go to TERRA MITICA theme park, located in BENIDORM
Our friend JOSE LUIS ANGULO, the spanish dubbing actor who gaves his voice to MICHAEL KNIGHT, talking to us in the restaurant.
More photos soon on ELCOCHEFANTASTICO.NET
First photos of COCHES FANTASTICOS 2007
First official photo in BENIDORM
On route to LA NUCIA
1/8 mile race in LA NUCIA: The first KARR two tone in Europe (owned by ESCRIBANSEN from FRAGA -HUESCA- SPAIN) in a race with CRAKOMAN's KITT. KITT wins in the 2 races against KARR!!!
Another images of our 1/8 mile race: CAMAROs, FIREBIRDs, CORVETTEs... The start judge was CABALLERO2000
The third town we meet was ALFAZ DEL PI...
On sunday we go to TERRA MITICA theme park, located in BENIDORM
Our friend JOSE LUIS ANGULO, the spanish dubbing actor who gaves his voice to MICHAEL KNIGHT, talking to us in the restaurant.
More photos soon on ELCOCHEFANTASTICO.NET
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Yes, as Lofer said, we are already back from a fantastic weekend, our Spanish KR meeting, Coches Fantásticos 2007!!!
We spent a whole weekend at Benidorm (Alicante) and we had about 10 Knight Rider replicas and a Two Tone KARR!!! Is there any other Two Tone KARR in Europe??
More than 100 people and about 35 cars finally assisted to our meeting. 3 TV spanish channels came to do TV reports and also the voice of our spanish Michael Knight was there with us (Jose Luis Angulo, a very friend man, with his wife). We had 1/4 mile drag races and KITT beat KARR twice!!!
Refering to the replicas, we are currently focusing on interiors, but this world is growing more and more... Last year we had 2 exterior replicas and about 5 Firebirds, and this year we've had 10 KITT replicas and a KARR, and about 15 more Firebirds!!! One of our KITT's has the interior almost done, but with this progression, next year we expect to see lots of complete replicas!!!
The weekend was very, very funny. First day, beach and mountain cruisings, 1/4 mile races and various street public showrooms. Second day at Terra Mítica Theme Park, with the complete KITT and KARR inside the park, and the rest of the cars in exposition just in the park entrance.
Everything was not good as we as we had desired. A member had an accident with his Firebird when he was coming to Benidorm. The Firebird was totalled but he is ok, with no personal injuries. However, he CAME the next day to met us!!! LOL!! He is about 8 hours far from Benidorm. We gave him a big round of applause and was a very emotive moment. I want to remark that he is a handicapped person.
We are very proud of all this. We've won some kind of acknowledgement and we have been sponsored by Universal Studios Spain. They have rendered the rights to ELCOCHEFANTASTICO.net Association. Yes, we are now a legal association!! As you know, we are working hard with Universal in all about KR in Spain; the KR packs, helping at the traslations, subtitles, booklets and many other privileges for us. We have a very close relationship!!
Keep in mind that Spain is the same size as one state from the US, and we have met with lots of Firebirds (American cars not commercialized in Spain) and many other different American cars. We love muscle cars the most, of course!! This is very hard to achieve in our home country and the organization was almost perfect.
Our community is becoming bigger and we want to share it with another communities. Thanks for reading again!!!
We spent a whole weekend at Benidorm (Alicante) and we had about 10 Knight Rider replicas and a Two Tone KARR!!! Is there any other Two Tone KARR in Europe??
More than 100 people and about 35 cars finally assisted to our meeting. 3 TV spanish channels came to do TV reports and also the voice of our spanish Michael Knight was there with us (Jose Luis Angulo, a very friend man, with his wife). We had 1/4 mile drag races and KITT beat KARR twice!!!
Refering to the replicas, we are currently focusing on interiors, but this world is growing more and more... Last year we had 2 exterior replicas and about 5 Firebirds, and this year we've had 10 KITT replicas and a KARR, and about 15 more Firebirds!!! One of our KITT's has the interior almost done, but with this progression, next year we expect to see lots of complete replicas!!!
The weekend was very, very funny. First day, beach and mountain cruisings, 1/4 mile races and various street public showrooms. Second day at Terra Mítica Theme Park, with the complete KITT and KARR inside the park, and the rest of the cars in exposition just in the park entrance.
Everything was not good as we as we had desired. A member had an accident with his Firebird when he was coming to Benidorm. The Firebird was totalled but he is ok, with no personal injuries. However, he CAME the next day to met us!!! LOL!! He is about 8 hours far from Benidorm. We gave him a big round of applause and was a very emotive moment. I want to remark that he is a handicapped person.
We are very proud of all this. We've won some kind of acknowledgement and we have been sponsored by Universal Studios Spain. They have rendered the rights to ELCOCHEFANTASTICO.net Association. Yes, we are now a legal association!! As you know, we are working hard with Universal in all about KR in Spain; the KR packs, helping at the traslations, subtitles, booklets and many other privileges for us. We have a very close relationship!!
Keep in mind that Spain is the same size as one state from the US, and we have met with lots of Firebirds (American cars not commercialized in Spain) and many other different American cars. We love muscle cars the most, of course!! This is very hard to achieve in our home country and the organization was almost perfect.
Our community is becoming bigger and we want to share it with another communities. Thanks for reading again!!!
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OOoh Yeah!, we are back and so sad because we meet lots of friends and we do lots of excitement things... all in the concentration was big luxury! (Restaurants, Hotel, Eating...)
I put here some photographs of the cars officially inscripted at the concentration :
All of they were so great!, and we have one KITT with Partially Functional Dashboard (all made from scratch)
And a Two-Tone KARR (First in Europe!)
Greethings !
I put here some photographs of the cars officially inscripted at the concentration :
All of they were so great!, and we have one KITT with Partially Functional Dashboard (all made from scratch)
And a Two-Tone KARR (First in Europe!)
Greethings !
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Hello, My name is Alex.
I am the owner of Karr, presumably the first one of Europe, since any other one has identified as such.
Jejejeje
Here I put a few videos of the concentration:
A small article of the channel 4 -- http://www.cuatro.com/multimedia/video. ... &view=alta
Youtube videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_qp1T_vOW8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyQvRLnk3Cw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a10Kggdxjb8
In the latter one sees since I lose noisy against KITT... Always win the good!!!
I will take revenge
I' m PLEASED of returning to write here.
ALEX
I am the owner of Karr, presumably the first one of Europe, since any other one has identified as such.
Jejejeje
Here I put a few videos of the concentration:
A small article of the channel 4 -- http://www.cuatro.com/multimedia/video. ... &view=alta
Youtube videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_qp1T_vOW8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyQvRLnk3Cw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a10Kggdxjb8
In the latter one sees since I lose noisy against KITT... Always win the good!!!
I will take revenge
I' m PLEASED of returning to write here.
ALEX
1st KARR TWO TONE REPLICA IN EUROPE