Chicago Knight Rider car framed for speeding in New York City | New York
A replica of the Kitt talking car from the 1980s American television action series Knight Rider has been parked for years at a museum about an hour’s drive north of Chicago. So how did she get a speeding ticket in New York?
That’s the question the Volo Museum is asking after saying it recently received a $50 fine from New York City for a traffic camera violation alleging its Knight Industries Two Thousand — Kitt for short and a black Pontiac Trans Am — was stopped 9 mph over the speed limit in a 25 mph zone on April 22.
The museum, named after the Illinois village where it is located, published a copy of the quote in a May 7 social media post. It contained two images of a black car resembling Kitt, which was driven by Knight Rider star David Hasselhoff throughout the show’s four seasons beginning in 1982, as she headed south on Ocean Parkway in Brooklyn.
According to the Volo Museum post, the camera captured the vehicle’s personalized California license plate which read KNIGHT. The city system then obviously tied this car to the museum and sent it the fine, even though the institution maintained that the Kitt knockoff it was exhibiting “hasn’t moved…in years!”
“Well, that’s a new one,” the museum marveled in its post, which went viral online and in the media. “It’s 100% legit… You can’t make this up!” »
The article continued: “Does anyone have Hasselhoff’s number? He owes us $50!”
New York City officials did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Museum officials, meanwhile, said they were seeking a hearing to challenge the citation.
The Volo Museum says on its website that it opened in 1960 and touts its collection of vintage, sports and Hollywood cars.
Although its Kitt was not used in the Knight Rider series, the museum maintains “it is still a piece of automotive history”, having been created in 1991 from original production designs from the show. Its creator, Mark Scricani of Mark’s Custom Kits, built the car to promote his Kitt reproduction accessories business, the museum said.
It was once owned by the designer of the Batmobile from the 1960s Batman TV series, George Barris. The late Barris, who worked on the production of Knight Rider in its final seasons, even autographed the museum’s facsimile of Kitt, which the institution hailed as a “true masterpiece of automotive engineering and technology.”
Knight Rider is generally about a former police officer – Hasselhoff’s Michael Knight – who, after being shot and left for dead, teams up with the supposedly sentient, talking Kitt to fight criminals. Although the Guardian in 2020 called the action series “stupid”, it proved to be a global hit before Hasselhoff starred in Baywatch.
