Chicago Knight Rider car framed for speeding in New York City | New York
A replica of Kitt, the talking car from the 1980s US television action series Knight Rider, has been parked in a museum north of Chicago for years, so how did he get a speeding ticket in New York?
That’s the question the Volo Museum is asking after it claimed it was issued a $50 fine by New York City for a recent violation detected by traffic cameras and that its Knight Industries Two Thousand (Kitt for short and a black Pontiac Trans Am) was caught going 9 mph over the 25 mph speed limit on April 22.
The museum, named after the Illinois village where it is located, released a copy of the quote on May 7. social media post. This included two images of a black car resembling Kitt driven by Knight Rider star David Hasselhoff as it traveled south on Brooklyn’s Ocean Parkway during the show’s four-season run, which began in 1982.
According to the Volo Museum’s post, the camera captured the vehicle’s customized California license plate that reads KNIGHT. The municipality’s system then connected that car to the museum and sent the fine; yet the institution “hasn’t moved in years!” in response to Kitt’s imitation.
“Well, this is something new,” the museum marveled in a post that went viral and across the news media. “This is 100% legal… You can’t make it up!”
He continued: “Does anyone have Hasselhoff’s number? He owes us $50!”
New York City officials did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Meanwhile, museum officials said they are seeking a hearing to challenge the citation.
The Volo Museum’s website states that it opened in 1960 and promotes its collection of vintage, sports and Hollywood cars.
During this is kitt Although it was not used in the Knight Rider series, the museum maintains that it is “still a piece of automotive history” as it was created in 1991 from original show production designs. The museum said the car’s creator, Mark Scricani of Mark’s Custom Kits, built the car to promote his reproduction Kitt accessories business.
It was once owned by George Barris, the Batmobile designer of the 1960s Batman television series. The late Barris, who worked on the production side of Knight Rider in later seasons, even signed the museum’s replica of Kitt, which the institution hailed as “a true masterpiece of automotive engineering and technology.”
Knight Rider loosely follows a former police officer (Hasselhoff’s Michael Knight) who teams up with the supposedly sentient and talking Kitt to fight criminals after being shot and left for dead. Although the Guardian described the action series as “ridiculous” in 2020, the series had proven to be a worldwide hit before Hasselhoff was cast in Baywatch.
