Hemmings Find of the Day: the truck from TV’s “The Highwayman”

After creating the first Knight Rider TV series, Glen Larson took the same formula and substituted a futuristic semi truck for a Pontiac Firebird. The result? A pilot movie and nine episodes of a TV show called “The Highwayman,” broadcast on NBC in late 1987 and early 1988. Sam Jones (Flash Gordon!) appeared as the title character, and the pilot even starred G. Gordon Liddy, Jimmy Smits and Rowdy Roddy Piper.

Though it looks like a Luigi Colani creation, the truck actually started out as a 1980 Kenworth cab-over with an 8V92T diesel before it was converted, at a cost of $287,000, into the “futuristic” (the series was set in 1992) truck used in the series. Jon Ward Motor Sports of Alpine, Texas, which claims to have built the truck for the series, apparently held on to the truck after the series ended and kept the futuristic look, but began to convert it into a motor home, complete with stacked washer and dryer, on-demand hot water and room for a fireplace. Apparently, he felt there would be no relaunch of the TV series.

The Highwayman truck, as it appeared during the television series.

Partway through the motorhome conversion, Jon Ward is selling the Highwayman truck through Hemmings.com for $125,000, though on his website, Jon Ward said he’ll finish it for you for another $50,000. Which, really, isn’t that much if you’re in the market for a big RV.

Oh, and yes, the cab looks like a helicopter cockpit for a reason:

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