Gumball 2008 - With David Hasselhoff and KITT

[Stylez]

Thank god those stickers come off easy! It's a Gumball 3000 thing, I've seen most entrants with them except for a 2 man team running the Gumball with a fake cop car.

[neps]

from davidhasselhoff.com

So it's Friday night and we are all registered and the KITT car is waiting outside the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco and ready to go tomorrow.... It is going to be so cool. The Gumball Rally is amazing and you can see it all here...

From 11.00 PST, we will be broadcasting live from the start line as we get ready to go. So tune in her, scroll down to the Hoff TV player, kindly brought to you by Kyte, and watch it. Then as we race down to LA, I will be checking in with you guys... There is no other social network in the world which has ever done anything like this. This is a world and an internet first!!!!!

[scottab21]

Wow, so we have to go to the Hoff's site to see it exclusively? I'm sure the video will get posted here too, but was just wondering if it will be aired on TV anywhere...

[Stylez]

This is going to be really cool. 25 minutes to go?

[Sue]

Tune in quick he's live!
http://www.davidhasselhoff.com/

[Victor Kros]

I am going to the location in L.A. tonight to see if I can get some photos there or possibly even meet David.

We'll see what develops.

=VK=

[Stylez]

I am going to the location in L.A. tonight to see if I can get some photos there or possibly even meet David.

We'll see what develops.

=VK=

Cool, good luck man!

[neps]

Sue is also down there as well, and I believe Jaime said he might try and hit it too.

[Victor Kros]

Greetings,

I'm extremely tired (please excuse any typos) so I have to keep this somewhat brief. David arrived in Hollywood in front of the El Captian Theater in a silver Audi and I had the pleasure along with my friend Danny (Cal Jedi Knight) of Knights of the West Coast to hand David a white gift box (Danny handed him the box personally) with info for Saugus with some postcards, t -shirt, Support Glen badges, and so on. It is currently sitting inside the car he was driving on the passenger seat.

David was very quick to get out of the car and make his way to the Rosevelt Hotel. I also had the pleasure of meeting up with Sue who worked quite hard to get into the center of the frenzy once David arrived and get the good people of KRO some great exclusive shots. Sue's the best at what she does with her camera!

for Sue!

I have a couple of my own shots and will post photos later, including a great shot of David and his partner behind the wheel. We literally got right next to his door. Talk about great timing!

KITT did not make it to the show. I guess the law decided to keep him locked up which is a real shame. There were a lot of great luxury and high profile sports cars though, lots of mercedez? and ferrarris. David's entrance in the Audi was clearly the most anticipated moment of the show and he didn't disappoint. It was interesting because no one knew what car he was going to arrive in and he arrived around 10:40pm, way past the original 8-9 deadline.

David looked very tired and did not stop to take photos or sign autographs. He basically made his way as quickly to the hotel as possible. Given the amount of driving he had to endure, I don't blame him for just wanting to get to his room and relax. I have a good feeling our hard work to give him our gifts will pay off.

Well for now that's all I know at the moment. I'll post photos up later.

=VK=

[Victor Kros]

You can see the edge of the gift box and some of the Saugus miniposters at 4:18 in the arrival video on http://www.davidhasselhoff.com/

(Live Mobile Show video)

=VK=

[Sue]

Well I got to see David! Go to his site and check out his latest vid you will see me waving at you all and David saying hi to KRO. I’ll work on getting my vids up. But here’s some pictures.






David wasn’t driving KITT as you can tell, KITT came a little later. After the bad luck of getting pulled over twice for tinted taillights and his red scanner KITT then breaks down right as he exits the highway! They pushed him all the way up to the rally.




That’s Niels-Peter Jensen (left) and George Fecher from Peter’s Garage.

Only people in KRO T-shirts get to do this.

Poor KITT!


It was good to see Victor again! Also I want to give a special thank you to the kind photographers out there who all called out to me to let me know when David arrived. Thanks sooo much! And if anyone I met for the fist time is just tuning in, hi to you all too, welcome to KRO!

[Victor Kros]

Good work Sue!

I guess KITT showed up after all. We left after David headed into the hotel, I mean at 11:30 at night we were just exhausted. Good looking out!

=VK=

[Sue]

Here’s a screen grab of me saying hi to everyone on KRO who was watching live on David’s camera at davidhasselhoff.com.

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I haven’t gone to bed yet and it’s 4am but hopefully I will at least have part one of my vid up to show you soon.

[neps]

Sue! you are AMAZING!

[Matthew]

Sue,

I'd just like to say that I appreciate the amount of work you've put into making sure we were all kept up to speed. You've done a fantastic job, and I can't thank you enough.

Matt

[PHOENIXZERO]

Poor poor KITT, the years haven't been kind to him.


Good work to you Sue and Victor too!

[weeezl]

Id just like to say a big thank you to everyone who helped get pics & footage of the Hoff in LA last night, excellent work guys!

I stayed up all night watching the live feed from Hasselhoff.Com and finally hit the hay at 7am just missing the update from LA, I just watched the video today and it looked like total mayhem!

It was great chatting with some of you guys last night on the live chat, you are all some top notch people, a real credit to KRO! So Neil, Sue, Victor and Jaime a big thumbs up !

Sue, Hope you didnt forget your crayons!

Victor, I know what you look like now lol

You guys are the best!

A big thanks from a self-confessed Knight Rider Knut!!!

Matt.

[jaimetheking]

Yesterday was a fun day chatting with all you guys! Thanks to Sue for her hard work!

Sorry, I couldn't make it out to Hollywood...I had some emergency family matters to attend to.

The pictures look great sue!

Thanks, Sue, Weeezl, Neps, and everyone that chatted...sure was fun.

[Stylez]

Great job guys! Nice shout out Sue! Yeeeaaah baby!! Woooo! lol

[Sue]

First video is ready!!! Check it out!!!

Hasselhoff at Gumball Rally high res
Hasselhoff at Gumball Rally low res

[GarthKnight08]

Sue you better be careful you dont get arrested for stalking David lol, just kidding awesome work!

[HisNameisGarth]

It appears that this is not a KITT used in the original series.
I suspect this is the KITT that David built for his "Knight Rocker" concert series (toured Europe in 1987).

[Stylez]

It appears that this is not a KITT used in the original series.
I suspect this is the KITT that David built for his "Knight Rocker" concert series (toured Europe in 1987).

I'm thinking you could be right, it was "Night Rocker" by the way, just wanted to point that out, I know you like things proper. Just buggin' ya man, welcome back.

[JJSoCrazy]

Sue, Excellent job I must say, pics, video and everything is great! I wish I could have gone out to LA and seen it myself and try and meet DH!

BTW I heard DH talking about him coming into the series and reprising his role with the old KITT, nice one on that also SUE!!!

BTW where is VK?

Joe

[HisNameisGarth]

It appears that this is not a KITT used in the original series.
I suspect this is the KITT that David built for his "Knight Rocker" concert series (toured Europe in 1987).

I'm thinking you could be right, it was "Night Rocker" by the way, just wanted to point that out, I know you like things proper. Just buggin' ya man, welcome back.

Good catch....
Just please don't admit you actually listened to the song.

At least "Get in my Car" was intentionally funny.