The magazine rack is a smoked acrylic Hot Wall File. They are still made by Eldon and Rubbermaid.

@richardakajazzyamx9690

2 жыл бұрын

Wow, yeah! Even found the exact model: "Rubbermaid Wall File, Classic Hot File Starter Set 4-Pocket Letter, 1 Unit, Smoke (L16603)"

I asked my Aunt who worked for Texas Instruments as a Purchaser in the 70 and 80's. She said the Orange Chairs are made by Herman Miller... She said she purchased 1000's of them for the company.

@Clay3613

2 жыл бұрын

I bet they costs 1000s now!

@ThaMythbuster

2 жыл бұрын

Someone else commented the wall panel holder things are also Herman Miller stuff. So very likely the creators purchased a lot of this stuff through that company.

@nicholastrawinski

2 жыл бұрын

@@ThaMythbuster and it makes sense from a set designers prospective. Just order everything from one cataloge and it all shows up on a pallet or 5. Everything from company A is for this tv show, company B is for this movie type stuff. Ordering 100 things from 100 places would be a logistical nightmare for the S&R department. Someone has to have old catalogs for those companies still...

@suitandtieguy

2 жыл бұрын

old Herman Miller stuff is plentiful and affordable. or at least was ... it's the modern era Herman Miller stuff that costs more like Aero chairs etc

Even though this video isn't that old, it's just as entertaining to read the comments with people giving their ideas and advice about these items and how they might be acquired.

Kind of reminds me of Kramer putting the Merv Griffin set together in his apartment

The books are West's California Digest, law books.

Ooh love this attention to detail! I found some matches using Google Lens. I’ll email you as KZread’s spam filter finds them very tasty. Keep up the great work!

@KnightRiderHistoriansOfficial

2 жыл бұрын

Awesome thanks!

@rickforte168

2 жыл бұрын

@@KnightRiderHistoriansOfficial The panels look like metal roofing or building panels

The semi's phone looks a lot like a building access phone that you might find in the lobby of an office building or apartment complex. It would have been outdated even then, but it could be an old one from the '70s that they had or found.

@KnightRiderHistoriansOfficial

2 жыл бұрын

We've actually identified the phone already!

@brianleeper5737

2 жыл бұрын

@@KnightRiderHistoriansOfficial It's a Western Electric/Bell panel phone, isn't it? I found pictures of ones with rotary dials, but I know they were made in touch-tone too.

@austin62halo

2 жыл бұрын

@@KnightRiderHistoriansOfficial you should do a KZread short for every item you Identify. So we have a general idea of what to keep looking for.

@kanatanagesaeiji

2 жыл бұрын

@@KnightRiderHistoriansOfficial the corrugated walls and the door hinging is all of a shipping container

@kennethsanderson442

2 жыл бұрын

@@brianleeper5737 Yep.... looks like it's a Western Electric Model 2750 AM. Good eye!

The books are called WESTS CALIFORNIA DIGESTS. It's a set of law books

@PetesGuide

2 жыл бұрын

Finally! A reference to the L in FLAG!

The grid lights are standard 2X4 translucent "egg crate" light fixture inserts below and a regular translucent 2X4 lens overtop of that. The fixture behind would have been a standard 2X4 drop ceiling fixture using either 2 or 4 tube fluorescent lighting with (most likely) a F40/T12 daylight tube (bulb). All of these are still available at electrical wholesalers. I hope this helps.

@jeffreyrigged

2 жыл бұрын

lowes have those as well.

@davidlyons9992

2 жыл бұрын

I completely agree, they are diffusers used for fluorescent light fixtures and still widely available

The interior wall brackets and paneling remind me of cubicle walls. May be a place to start looking.

Those door handles on the back doors look like they came from a Hobbs Anti-Sail trailer, identical to the ones in Smokey and the Bandit.

I think I'm gonna take a few months off and go hunting for Semi trailer furniture. 🧐

@KnightRiderHistoriansOfficial

2 жыл бұрын

Please do!!!

@jeromepatton8142

2 жыл бұрын

THAT'S RIGHT FALLOW YOUR HEART THAT MEANS A LOT TOO ME

6:22 the chairs could be from JANSKO, Fort Lauderdale Florida. i believe their chairs were the only ones that had this destinctive rollers design.

That "computer chair" at 7:11 is actually a drafting stool, those were very common in Engineering studios at the time. I used one very similar to that (except it was grey) for decades. There aren't a lot of these still in use today, but that's what this is, a drafting stool, which is probably why you haven't found anything like it when searching for "computer chairs". The way the tubes are bent and assembled below the foot rest ring are particularly unusual, just as the casters are of an uncommon type, so I expect this will be relatively difficult to find. Look around at old Engineering firms, city and county public works offices, that kind of thing. Maybe a local college or university with an Engineering or Drafting department, or other governmental agency likely to keep old furniture in storage, might have one of these that you can obtain. As old as that is, this will be like hunting for a needle in a haystack, but you might get lucky, there are still some out there. Failing that, if you can find one that has a similar or exact style of seat and backrest (these will be the hardest parts to duplicate), you could have an expert welder create the lower foot rest ring and leg tubes relatively simply. It wouldn't be inexpensive, but it would be exact. In a similar vein, you could probably get a good fabricator to make new casters as well. Also, the phone in the lounge looks like a repurposed contemporary pay phone from the era, with a different faceplate (still made out of the same type of rough finish material) to change the layout of the handset and keypad. It may be painted red, but it actually looks like a dark red bakelite, which was an available option during that period. And lastly, that red coffeemaker looks suspiciously like a Norelco Dial A Brew from that period.

@KountryGuy

2 жыл бұрын

Those chairs were also used in older dental offices. Might be able to still find themIn a dental supply company. Doubt you can find the color would have to recover if you can find them.

@davidlyons9992

2 жыл бұрын

Drafting stools are still out there and still in use!

@elduderinolebowski5411

2 жыл бұрын

@@davidlyons9992 they sure are. Modern "Computer chairs (specifically "gaming style") are dominating that arena now, but there are still some people who prefer this kind of stool for drafting and engineering work. The designs have changed with modern tastes and styles, though. Those older ones are a lot harder to find. My dad found the one I had, very similar to the one these guys are looking for, tucked away in an attic at the old County Public Works building, I don't know when it got stored there or why it got put away, but it was around the period of this show when we found it. They let him have it just to get rid of it, and he gave it to me. I used that stool for close to thirty years before one of my kids "borrowed" it and never gave it back. I have no idea where it is today, sadly.

@0x07AF

2 жыл бұрын

Yes! Those "computer chair" stools were very popular throughout engineering offices and labs in the 60s, 70s and 80s, they were also common in classes like school chemistry labs. I've seen several of that general style clustered together in storage rooms with old electronics equipment throughout the years. Always blue or orange. A high school vocational electronics program I attended in the 90s had two labs with donated 'hand-me-downs' from the industry, and many weren't in the best of shape by then, especially mechanically where the back and stool sections attached, or casters coming off - most would probably be easily fixable with some patience and TLC. I'd be very surprised to find any still in regular use today, their modern equivalents have evolved quite a bit.

#6 those are standard office cubical connectors. They come in different lengths and designed to hold two fabric panels together and gives you the slots to install a shelf between the panels or a locking cabinet etc.

@ljfinger

2 жыл бұрын

Could be, but they could also be E-Track (found on semi trailers to attach straps).

@sterlingtardie

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly!!!

@franktags136

2 жыл бұрын

I was just thinking Cubicles when I read your comment. 👍🏼✌🏼

@48VAC

2 жыл бұрын

@@ljfinger I would believe they are too small for strap anchors on a trailer. They look more like cubicale or shelving standards.

@kenabi

2 жыл бұрын

early herman miller style stuff, yes.

You've probably used it already but if you haven't, use the google lens feature for the items you need. You will be surprised what you can find.

@Martin-vl9mw

2 жыл бұрын

good idea !

The ceiling light grids are just white defusers, and are still readily available, the walls look to be metal wall panels for metal buildings, both can be sourced from hardware stores like Home Depot or Lowes.

@tubetop123

2 жыл бұрын

Diffusers for surw

@TheMsLourdes

2 жыл бұрын

i have some in my spare bedroom, they are readily available for drop ceilings.

@dh2032

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheMsLourdes we called Suspended Ceilings, over here? but with out big bars, it look like your average office ceiling tile setup

@manfredfritz6068

2 жыл бұрын

The beams in the middle look like they are made of some building material and covered in like a felt, some light weight wood or something?

The kitchenette was highly used in Winnebagos back in the '70s-'90s. We had the olive green one in our Winnebago.

The corrugated metal panels are standard steel siding wall panels turned around backwards. Any steel building supply store should have them, these look like they are just regular galvanized steel.

@brianleeper5737

2 жыл бұрын

I know they were used on Morton steel buildings.

The magazine rack is one I know I've seen in plenty of offices. It's a modular type where the top section mounts flat to the wall then the next one hangs onto it, and each one down hangs onto the one above. If it's out of production then finding one is going to be like when people were hunting for old Dr's offices that still had the same type of chair that the original Star Trek Enterprise captain's chair was built around. The bookshelf looks like it's only a couple of inches deep. I bet they sawed the spines off and glued them in place. When find out exactly what set they are, contact books by the foot. Would not be surprised if they have a dozen full sets. For the chrome lounge lamps look at Kovacs Sonneman or Robert Sonneman or Koch & Lowy. You're looking for chrome eyeball lamps, 1970's vintage.

Joe, i gotta tell ya man, i love your videos about knight rider. I love coming to it to watch things about one of my favorite childhood shows when all the internet is is full of drama about politics or hatred across the country. Take me for a ride in that truck when its all done up, bro.

There's a bunch of old van trailers parked at a place by me I'll have to see if there are any dorsey ones with the trim or any other of that stuff. If there's anyone in the entire world who is logical on the old trailers and trucks, it would be Cam Lavin. He's on facebook if you shoot him a few messeges he would probably glady look through some of his literature that he has around. Nice guy and he does it all for free.

@mintyman1968

2 жыл бұрын

That door lock inside the trailer looks to be 6 seperate pieces that were jerry rigged to fit (doesn't line up very well) so you might have to make that on your own

@dalehovland3283

2 жыл бұрын

That is what I was thinking. Did not look off the shelf ready to install

@werner.x

2 жыл бұрын

@@mintyman1968 Not at all. This is a stock factory made simple flat sliding bolt, like you get them in every building market in different sizes, at least in Europe.

We had those chairs at work, but they were broken and were thrown out, in black vinyl. If I see any of them downtown, I will get to you.

Thanks! for the great work. I was a super Knight Rider fan in 80's. Keep up the great work and would love to see the Trailer back in it's 80's conditions.

@KnightRiderHistoriansOfficial

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

the velour swivel chairs are called bell or tulip chairs, I think you will find they were likely repurposed and retrimed in Tan leatherlook and likely used as background set pieces in shows like star trek the next generation.. there are some almost identical shaped ones still sold today if you google them if you need reproductions.

I’m quite sure you could still buy these door rods at the PRESENT Dorsey Trailers in Elba Alabama! I used to install build and install these EXACT door rods. There is a very good chance that some of these rods and ALL the hardware still remain in that plant today. It’s worth a shot! Hope this helps!

Hi Joe. It's so very thrilling to understand that the pieces to the FLAG Semi inside and outside have changed over the decades. There are a few possibilities we can do in order to replicate the exact same items from the original show. I hope it achieves the replication some day. Thanks guys.👍

The Encyclopedia looks more like a Legal set of "West's Publications" books by West Publishing - which was purchased by another company.

@silverbankruptcy

2 жыл бұрын

@@cmcasey79 Makes sense, Michael and Kitt probably faced a host of legal issues.

the Kitchenette has a fridge frezzer as the botyom two doors, took one out of an apartment from the 70s about 5 years ago.

Hi there, The desk lamp seen in the FLAG trailer is called 'Tizio' and was designed in the 1970s by Richard Sapper. There are ones in black if you want to search them. ;-)

The phone handset looks like a standard Western Electric 500/etc handset that they used on phones from the 50s through the 90s. They came in all sorts of colors, so I wouldn't be surprised if that was its original color. There were also tons of custom phones put together both by WE and other companies, so it could be both custom but also something produced by a company somewhere.

@brianleeper5737

2 жыл бұрын

You can still get a red one from ITT/Cortelco, I think. With the carbon mike (or an electronic equivalent) and a standard receiver, it would be compatible with any Western Electric, ITT, Stromberg-Carlson (and whomever else made them) 500/2500 set. These handsets are known as "G style" handsets, and a google search for that will turn up places selling refurbished ones.

That telephone with the red receiver was one of those doorbell intercoms. It was made with the pay phone style hang up hook holder for the receiver and payphone chromed metal keypad. As for the orange chairs on wheels, I did see a set in green with the same chrome bottoms in a Christian resale store in Two Rivers Wisconsin. They go to a kitchen set with an octagon shaped formica table. I think they wanted about 65 USD for the set of 4 chairs with the table with a leaf included. I remember thinking how ugly for that much money.

#13 looks like a Western Electric 2750 panel phone. That might help send you in the right direction.

@brianleeper5737

2 жыл бұрын

Were the guts of the 2750 interchangeable with the 2500 desk phone? Or the 2554 wall phone? (Not sure if 2554 was the Western Electric number for the wall phone, but it's what Premier and ITT/Cortelco use)

@DounutCereal

2 жыл бұрын

Oh heck I think you're bang on with that

@markgilbreath1980

2 жыл бұрын

Its a dead ringer.................if you'll excuse the pun. Looks like they just painted it. 🙂

Knight Rider Archives has some really great shots of some of the semi interior

I will have a hunt around over here in Bulgaria. It’s amazing what some folk leave in their houses. There are still tons of 70’s and 80’s cars rolling round here and furniture is much the same outside of the cities. If I find anything I’ll be in touch

The magazine rack looks like one of those hospital chart holders that's been painted black most of those are clear. Those square shaped things above the lights look like the things that are in my 70's dolphin mobile home(trailer) its for ambient lighting here. I don't know if y'all would want a picture or not, just let me know an I'll take some. Also I agree with other comments I believe those are law books

@dependablepaul

2 жыл бұрын

Yep, you beat me to the chart rack, lol.

@Clay3613

2 жыл бұрын

They make smoke colored ones, I see them all the time where I work. Not exact same model but close.

#6 is a standard shelf rail painted black and the screw heads covered up. #7 for the lights is totally available, if you can't find it for lights for some reason try a good pet store that caters to salt water fish and has supply's for wet dry filters. Thay use the panels in wet dry filters and cut them down. The hardware on the outside of the trailer door are everyday hardware still used on semi trailers. I have found the stove top sink combo on amazon recently in RV supplies. I would have saved it on my wish list but it was like $1,400 so I passed it by. But they still make it. Just in case you can't find the sink/range combo, look for it at RV scrap places that sell used RV stuff, thats what it was made for.

I hope you find what you need. It’s awesome that you guys plan to bring back memories of Knight Rider.

I think I found the encyclopedias. They're West's California Digest - law books. There are different years and the typeface in the spines varies a bit each year. The ones I found on Ebay are from the 50s and match the general style perfectly. Just don't know which specific year the screen used ones are from.

@hiromasaki

2 жыл бұрын

I noticed that the volume numbers had "A" after every other, so I'm pretty sure you're right. It would make sense for a vigilante organization to pay close attention to the law for getting themselves out of trouble.

@WarEagleBrett

2 жыл бұрын

Here is an image of these books from an old ebay listing i.ebayimg.com/images/g/zoEAAOSwf8RfeqSf/s-l400.jpg

@corona55555

2 жыл бұрын

You nailed it. I could tell that they were from a law library and were probably a West publication, but those are definitely an old set of the California Digest.

@upnorthandpersonal

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, the second one from the right in the picture you can make out the text "16A Contract law" and on the 4th from the right "12 Const law".

@matthewhegarty729

2 жыл бұрын

Good eyes!

Kind of hard to tell but it seems the magazine rack is a translucent smoked black plastic as you can see the top magazines through the holder. Inside metal panels look to be aluminum prefab barn/industrial siding so that's a starting place to look. Paying even closer attention to the trailer rehab seeing as I just started building the the retooled 2000 reissue of the AMT Ertl KITT kit and am thinking about building the Round2 GMC General and either majorly kit bashing or scratch building the Dorsey trailer

Wow, your attention to detail and meticulousness is admirable. I cannot wait for the finished article 👍😁

That handset keypad looks like it's from an old Emergency phone from an old 70's elevator, but were used through the 80's and even the 90's I bet.

The phone is a building intercom the corrugated panels are from a metal shed.

The 4 chairs look like late 70s/early 80s dining room chairs. The computer chair looks like chairs I have seen as counter chairs at some auto parts stores at parts counter.

The cantilever light which you intend to paint black is a Tizio. They are usually black and I suggest just selling yours and replacing it, keeping in mind that there are different sizes available so you want to have the correct one. It is a much loved classic design by the great Richard Sapper and is still in production after decades. Painting that would be a pain and also inauthentic! 😉

The lounge lights are Chrome Eyeball sconces.

Acme kitchenettes is still in business. Maybe reach out and they can give you a part number

Some of the interior lounge lights (The ones with the globe in the arm) may be a vintage Travel trailer lighting piece. Mobiltec here on KZread may be able to help with some of these items. Hemet Valley RV recreates various sheet metal for vintage trailers, they may be able to help with the sheet metal needs.

The hinges and handles look to be the same as what you would find on any shipping container/conex

The light reminds me of a prop from flight of the navigator. The internals are a form of internal panelling or classic siding. The kitchonette is available in Japan they have a catalog for that. Possibly also has the classic phone.

the issue is that the set appears to be roughly 10 ft wide and the trailer is 8 ft wide, by looking at the scale of the people in the room, polar hardware for the hinges and latches, the cieling light diffusers are probably the 2x2 1 inch grid style found everywhere. The wall T rail tracks are used for offices, in fact that magazine rack looks like the bog standard acrylics ones found everywhere in the 80s in doctors offices etc.

@MrJest2

2 жыл бұрын

The whole furniture and counter/shelving set is late 1970s office furniture. It may be nearly impossible to find these days; that sort of stuff tended to be junked when people remodeled their offices. But I recognize the slatted panels and doors, with the curved pieces from an "Executive Suite" type set of office furniture from that era. Likewise the rolling chairs around the low table are conference room chairs, probably from the same designer. I almost wonder if they didn't come out of the studio offices after a make-over.

The hinges and bars on the back can be sourced from equestrian semi trilers. And the wire guide can probably be 3d printed since its plastic and it will be as close to a match as you can get. Will also work for little things and details unfound.

I noticed in one of your more recent previous vids, that the roll up door you speak of, was actually STILL IN the trailer, when it was used on the show! The false ceiling was low enough for the roll up door to pass over it, and its tracks were also still there meaning the roll up must have been still operable behind the specialized ramp door. -At 2m53s in this video, you can still see one of the roller hinges for that roll up door, still in its track, behind the pulley for the ramp door, and at the very top of the frame above the false ceiling! (Follow the cable off the pulley to where it crosses the edge of the false ceiling, & look straight up from that intersection... There's the hinge pivot for the roll up, and the parallel line just above the cable for the ramp door is the track the rollers for roll up door go into) -Granted, the roll up door cannot operate with the cables for the ramp door in the way, but both doors DID exist on that trailer, at the same time! -even if the roll up one was locked back out of the way. The false ceiling looks like they used standard 2'x4' "egg crate" light diffusers for drop ceiling grid, along with the thin, fogged light diffusers that would be pretty typical for most 2'x4' drop in florescent light fixtures. (Both type of diffusers are still available at places like menards & home depot) The metal strips between the diffuser panels looks to be a "brushed aluminum" style ceiling grid, and in todays world, that grid may still be available through *Chicago Metallic* (a ceiling grid manufacturer). The distance between the black beams holding up the ceiling, look like the spaces in each "bay" were bigger than 4'x8', so they made a light grey, 1" thick, "soffit" that was trimmed out with brushed aluminum around the inside perimeter of the hole(s) for the lights that the diffuser panels sat on top of.

At 4:50, the desk lamp over Devon's shoulder looks like a 70's Artemide Tizio.

Those divider rails looked like painted wood with the slots painted on with a paint marker. The picture you posted had a nail in the side of the rail probably holding back that portion of the wall panels.

@DieselKevcop

2 жыл бұрын

I agree. The slots didn't appear to have any depth. Looks like routed wood trim with painted slots.

This show is one of my top favourite memories of the 80s. Keep up the great mahi!

@KnightRiderHistoriansOfficial

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!!

7:44 you might want to pick up the phone you got a message 😂

That decor is so 80's. I am suprised they didn't do these shots in a studio replica.

The divider rails ... soon as i saw your photo i recognised them. I think i know what these are. In your photo at 07.56, i think the divider rail / shelf upright bracket is the steel thin strip in the middle with slots in it. The black thicker outer bits are simply spray paint type of effect on wood to make it look wider. Almost like they fitted the steel upright with slots and then sprayed a thicker area on each side to make it stand out on chipboard or other wood. The reason the slots are lighter is thats the colour of the material they are screwed into. I have these uprights. the uprights are about half inch thick from the wall out so wood could be butted up to the upright, then sprayed to make it all look thicker. ... only problem is they are holding up a ton of my books on shelves !! I brought these brackets in the 1980s. But i am in the UK. I can send you photos if you want.

What a fun scavenger hunt. I wish I had at least one thing to contribute! 😞 I'll try hitting some flea markets over here in Central NY this summer!

For the divider rails look at Herman Miller office partitions. The rails look like the ones I had in my office for years.

The wiring trim is commercial curtain wall glazing pressure plate glazing clip. Hold glass I place when you install glass on openings. The two slots in the metal that hold the wiring are actually where the glazing rubber goes. Usually has a cover that snaps on to cover the metall.

Joe, I know for a fact that the encyclopedias are in fact the 1983 World Book Encyclopedia (Red, Gold Gilt) set. There is a set currently for sale on ebay for $249.99. No, this is not my listing❕ I hope this helps❗ Hello from Phoenix Arizona!🔥

@startx9

2 жыл бұрын

I was going to post that the encyclopedias looked a lot like the world book set I had as a Kid, however the decoration on them is wrong.

@pinball541

2 жыл бұрын

@@startx9- Maybe the studio might have altered the set to make it look different. Maybe not to get hit with a trademark suit?

@theweather4216

2 жыл бұрын

@@cmcasey79 i agree

@Arella_aegyo

2 жыл бұрын

@@cmcasey79 Thanks for this! I've deblurred the image and I've seen it said West's. But I couldnt find the exact ones. But these are 100% the ones. It matches my deblurred images.

That is a classic multi it also is a 1970's style 'incoming outgoing' 4 slotted work desk. Yes it could be used for magazines on the wall.

the sink stove combo had slots to fit the plastic laminate to match the paneling

Wish you luck. Hopefully you're able to get the items that you need.

You can get that style wiring from old great Dane vans.

The coffee percolator is a repainted Braun KF30. (They only came in white or yellow).

Oh, I also remember hearing that the rear hinges were cast epoxy to keep the dropgates weight to a minimum.

@brad9529

2 жыл бұрын

They used epoxy in 1985? I would have thought that would not have been a big thing back then 🤔

@rwieber79

2 жыл бұрын

I was thinking that they didn't look like actual metal hinges and handles from the pictures as well. I bet your right and they made molds from the real items and glued painted epoxy or possibly some silicone type material faux hardware on the back door for weight saving.

@DieselKevcop

2 жыл бұрын

@@brad9529 it wasn't very available to the public back then, but my dad's 84 Hurst olds had the carburetor epoxied when we bought it new, cause the mount was cracked.

@brad9529

2 жыл бұрын

@@DieselKevcop ok fair enough, it was invented decades earlier so I guess why not

@alantrimble2881

2 жыл бұрын

@@brad9529 epoxy resin was old tech by 1980. You could buy it in any hardware, auto parts, or marine store, just as you can today.

I believe the lounge phone with the red receiver looks like it may have come from an elevator specifically an older 60s/70s model Otis elevators.

@timtodd6830

2 жыл бұрын

That’s the first thing I thought when I saw it.

😎Joe, you're attention to and insistence on detail is admirable. Because of that we know the semi will be the best it can be. 'Best of luck in finding all that you need. 😎

Thought on the wire guide: since it's plastic, if you can't find an original piece, get a high quality 3d scan of that little piece at the bottom and use that to create a 3D printer model which you can run sections off with.

For the exterior wire channel, see if the Screen Tight 1-1/2-in rails you can get at home depot/lowes matches. its designed for screens obviously but it looks really similar. comes in 8 foot sections in black, grey, and white.

I don't know where you can find the parts and things that where in the semi but your video was awesome thanks Joe.

The lamps at 9:15 look like Vintage atomic eyeball wall lamps if that helps your search?

Happy hunting Joe! I hope you get lots of leads!

@KnightRiderHistoriansOfficial

2 жыл бұрын

Same here - thank you!

That shelving channel. That looks like a piece of wood notched out and standard shelving channel put in it notched area.

The original tail lights on both the tractor and trailer are made by Peterson Mfg. You will need NOS period-correct ones.

I'm excited to that you guys want to rebuild the trailer and semi tractor to the exact specs used in the show. Looking at the kitchenette in the trailer. Comparing the one used in the set and the one you found online. I noticed they seem to be available with either 2 electric burners on the stove on that cabinet to the left and the one in the trailer looked like gas burners as the burners look silver color with the black grates on top. If that's the case, there would have to be a propane tank somewhere outside trailer. Either at the front or under the trailer and is something I observed looking at your cabinet pictures.

I may have the chairs in storage. I'll check. (they'd need upholstered.)

@KnightRiderHistoriansOfficial

2 жыл бұрын

Let us know!

@MonteD1

2 жыл бұрын

@@KnightRiderHistoriansOfficial I will. Got corona right now, but will check in a few days.

@MonteD1

2 жыл бұрын

@@KnightRiderHistoriansOfficial I checked. They are not accurate. I can link to some that I think are the correct ones so you know what you are looking for if you'd like.

I am guessing a lot of those pieces you should be able to get at the local home centers. They look like they can easily be reproduced with minimal effort. The chair have that 70's vibe to them and you should not have a problem finding those. The desk chair is the same style of and old one I have at work but it is not the taller high chair like that one is. And if you noted the desk chair and the office chair have the same swivel casters on them. That kitchenette you may find in old camping trailers. Contact some of those antique restoration trailer shops, they may have seen a few of those or have some around.

The wire channel or track looks like screen spline holders like if you were screening in a wood frame porch or lanai.

I know I saw the internal panels I saw at a place called Modern Props

The kitchenette may be a Danby D2000W. Still available today with very few changes that you may be able to modify to match the original.

The Metal Panels look like standard Shed Wall Materials available at Lowes, Home Depot, The Encyclopedias look to be Colliers Encyclopedia Yearbooks, Each covered a Specific Year

The chairs look like standard fare available from Hon office furniture back in the day. The company is still in business and may be able to confirm.

The door hard wear is standard use hardware on trailers with barn doors in the uk

Judging by the way they are numbered, I think those encyclopaedias might actually be a set of law books. Perhaps makes sense for the Foundation for Law and Government to have such things.

@DieselSgrass

2 жыл бұрын

Yes I believe that as well. Not encyclopedias

@emersonaz

2 жыл бұрын

My thoughts exactly.

@pauldunecat

2 жыл бұрын

Very similar to an ebay listing with the title "Vintage Law Books West’s Illinois Digest 2D. 118 Books Staging Tools Office Set" which are for Illinois, the ones in the video the long word could be California. You can make out in the blurry vid "West's" with the apostrophe which is the publisher Westlaw.

@rynfiaryn

2 жыл бұрын

The second book appears to say "Criminal Law" on it, I think.

@RaymondTF4Ever

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah. I think you have a better chance of finding those searching for Law Code Books, then as encyclopedia.

As for the ceiling tile square divider lights, Lowes still sells them, they are 2x4 foot, many people use them for aquarium salt water sump filter. They are called WHITE POLYSTYRENE EGG CRATE LOUVER

Those chairs are so similar to the famous design Eero Saarinen Knoll Associates chairs made in the 60s, the arms and back shape is nearly if not identical

There is a store in San Antonio Texas called Furniture in the Raw. They sell vintage furniture you might be able to talk to them and find what you’re looking for

I don't know about the other stuff in there but I used to work at Office Max I believe that magazine rack is still in their catalog the chairs I'm about 90% sure but it's one of those items that you can only find in their catalog

I also think that #6 is cubicle wall post. The wall panels may also be cubicle walls. #7. They are call diffusers. #9. Kenmore made one that look just like this, but they were 40" wide. Avanti sells one now (CK3016) but of course it doesn't match exactly.

#8 Lounge lights: Look like they were were kit-bashed. The round metal globes stolen from an old '70's pole lamp and mounted on wall sconce bases. That might be why you can't find anything like them commercial made.

Those "shelving" brackets: are Steel Case if I remember correctly. They used them for cubicles. See if those are correct.

thanks for all

Joe I totally salute your desire to combine the real world trailer with the prop set. I know how much of a stickler you are for authenticity, so this is kinda bending the rules a little, but since we never got to see the inside of the real trailer, then who's to say? lol. If you really have a hard time with this stuff, I'd suggest flea markets and auction houses. I'll keep my eyes peeled as well. What about Devon's cricket trophy that got fried? lol 😅 Take care and stay cool in this heat buddy

The lounge locks that you reference are actually called surface bolts. I have some NOS ones manufactured in the 80s by Ives Corporation from Canada, unfortunately you need the six screw version and mine are four screw. Hopefully this will assist you a little bit.

I was thinking about the ceiling lights. I think those are very simple. lounge door had "wired glass" in it. For as far i can see in this video, those squares are similar as the squares in the loungedoor glass. So my guess is that the whole ceiling was covered with "wired glass" with a diffuser on top of it. That way you still see the squares of the wires but can't see the tubes directly. And because it's a diffuser, the light looks very even. This is still commonly used in studio's to make light "softer" and as this was most likely a studio set, my guess is that they used it like this.

The Telephone is a "Western Electric 2750" repainted! ;)