Illinois's Volo Museum houses a replica of KITT, the sentient Trans Am from 1980s TV classic Knight Rider. Its operators are baffled by the traffic tickets the car keeps receiving. The exhibit is parked indoors, yet the authorities can furnish surveillance images of it, complete with the right number plate.
The license plate is also connected to five other unpaid traffic violations in New York City since late 2024, city records show.
How the city linked the plate to the museum was not immediately clear. City officials did not immediately respond to email and phone messages Wednesday.
It surely can't be sneaking off to catch the breeze in its cylon hair: the tickets are from New York City. Even with turbo boost it'd be twelve hours there and twelve more back. The museum has requested a hearing to challenge the ticket, reports Dave Collins with the Associated Press.
The assumption is that someone in the Big Apple has their own replica; the plate is a not particularly unlikely "KNIGHT." Here's Jim Wojdyla, the museum's marketing director:
"It's really amusing. We want to find out who this Knight Rider guy is because, birds of a feather. We just want to know is this from a museum, is this just a guy that built this car as a hobby? And it looks pretty damn accurate. We'd like to meet those guys."
Universal made 20 KITTs for the show, which lasted four seasons in the early 1980s. Five of those remain, according to Road and Track—and all need an alibi.
Previously: More than you ever wanted to know about 'Knight Rider'
• Alternate version of the Knight Rider theme tune
