The car that is in the museum received a speeding ticket
An Illinois auto museum received a bizarre speeding ticket tied to its famous “Knight Rider” display car.
The Volo Museum in Illinois recently received an unusual speeding ticket from New York City’s Department of Finance. The alleged offender was none other than KITT — the famous talking car from the classic TV series Knight Rider — despite the vehicle having spent years parked inside the museum’s exhibit hall.
According to the citation, a traffic camera recorded the car traveling 36 mph in a 25 mph zone, resulting in a $50 fine.
The problem? The actual speeding vehicle wasn’t the museum’s display car at all. Instead, the driver apparently used novelty license plates reading “Knight,” which the automated camera system mistakenly identified as the legitimate registration attached to the museum’s KITT replica.
To prove the vehicle couldn’t possibly have committed the violation, museum staff submitted surveillance footage showing the car safely parked indoors at the exact time the speeding incident occurred — roughly 900 miles away from where the ticket was issued.
The museum’s KITT is a replica built from a 1982 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am and was constructed in 1991. While it closely resembles the famous TV car, it was never actually used during filming of the original series.
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