{"id":227671,"date":"2026-05-11T20:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T20:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/227671\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T20:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T20:46:08","slug":"kitt-car-from-famous-tv-series-cited-for-speeding-in-new-york-despite-being-on-display-in-volo-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/227671\/","title":{"rendered":"KITT car from famous TV series cited for speeding in New York despite being on display in Volo Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\"\"\"\" <\/a>KITT, the famous talking car from the iconic 1980s television series Knight Rider, was accused of speeding 36 mph in a 25 mph school zone in Brooklyn, New York, on April 22. The Volo Museum says they received a citation despite the actual car being on display at their museum in Illinois. | Provided Photos<\/p>\n

KITT, a famous talking car from an iconic 80s television series, was issued a citation for speeding in New York City despite being on display in the Volo Museum, which said they thought it was a joke at first.<\/p>\n

The Volo Museum said they recently opened their mail to find a speeding citation from a New York City traffic camera accusing KITT, the famous talking car from the iconic 1980s television series Knight Rider, of speeding through a school zone.<\/p>\n

The museum, known for its collection of famous television and movie cars, is located in Illinois and nowhere near New York.<\/p>\n

\"\"\"\" <\/a>KITT, the famous talking car from the iconic 1980s television series Knight Rider, was accused of speeding 36 mph in a 25 mph school zone in Brooklyn, New York, on April 22. The Volo Museum says they received a citation despite the actual car being on display at their museum in Illinois. | Provided Photo<\/p>\n

The KITT vehicle owned by the museum has not been in New York and has remained on display for more than a decade.<\/p>\n

The car caught speeding through the school zone was using KITT\u2019s novelty television prop California license plate that reads \u201cKNIGHT,\u201d a decorative plate never intended to be a real registered license plate.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe honestly thought it was a joke at first,\u201d Volo Museum Marketing Director Jim Wojdyla said. \u201cThen we checked the violation on the official New York City website, and it\u2019s legit.\u201d<\/p>\n

The museum said they are questioning how a fake television show license plate ended up in an official license plate registry and how Volo Museum became associated with it.<\/p>\n

\"\"\"\" <\/a>KITT, the famous talking car from the iconic 1980s television series Knight Rider, was accused of speeding 36 mph in a 25 mph school zone in Brooklyn, New York, on April 22. The Volo Museum says they received a citation despite the actual car being on display at their museum in Illinois. | Provided Photos<\/p>\n

Museum Director Brian Grams said that the museum will be formally requesting a hearing instead of paying the fine.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fine is only $50,\u201d Grams said. \u201cBut we decided to request a hearing partly for clarification and partly because the entire situation is too bizarre not to pursue answers.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Volo Museum said they posted a photo of the violation online and the story quickly went viral across social media, generating more than 1.5\u00a0million interactions in a single day and thousands of comments from amused fans of the classic television series.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t imagine there are many KITT cars driving around the streets, so I\u2019m very curious who that vehicle belongs to,\u201d Wojdyla said.<\/p>\n

\"\"\"\" <\/a>KITT, the famous talking car from the iconic 1980s television series Knight Rider, was accused of speeding 36 mph in a 25 mph school zone in Brooklyn, New York, on April 22. The Volo Museum says they received a citation despite the actual car being on display at their museum in Illinois. | Screengrab<\/p>\n

\u201cI heard there may be a Knight Rider reboot coming out soon, so maybe David Hasselhoff is fighting bad guys again. If he is, he owes us 50 bucks,\u201d Wojdyla said.<\/p>\n

The vehicle caught speeding was clocked traveling 36 mph in a 25 mph school zone on Ocean Parkway in Brooklyn.<\/p>\n

The citation included photographs of the vehicle, a $50 fine and a matching online violation record on New York City\u2019s official violations website.<\/p>\n

K.I.T.T., short for Knight Industries Two Thousand, starred alongside Hasselhoff in the NBC series Knight Rider from 1982 to 1986 and remains one of the most recognizable television cars of all time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KITT, the famous talking car from the iconic 1980s television series Knight Rider, was accused of speeding 36…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227672,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[61648,88611,88610,9,24,55,54,56,89409,88612],"class_list":["post-227671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-citation","tag-kitt","tag-knight-rider","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-volo","tag-volo-museum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}