CAR OF THE MONTH – CHRIS POLLIN’S PONTIAC TRANS AM

When Chris Pollin takes his Trans Am for a spin, the public reaction is sometimes dramatic. This is hardly surprising, for not only is the Pontiac a rather magnificent vehicle in its own right, but it is also a doppelganger for the star of a certain television programme.

For those readers who are not devotees of classic US shows, Knight Rider was the saga of one Michael Knight, a young man who donned a succession of awful bomber jackets in his pursuit of justice, freedom, and the American Way. The show first aired on 26^th September 1982 with British transmissions commencing in the following year. Each episode was ‘a shadowy flight into the dangerous world of a man who does not exist’, and often involved villains so evil that they wore their sunglasses indoors.