{"id":232858,"date":"2026-05-15T17:02:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T17:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/232858\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T17:02:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T17:02:15","slug":"watch-illinois-museums-knight-rider-car-gets-speeding-ticket-from-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/232858\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Illinois museum&#8217;s &#8216;Knight Rider&#8217; car gets speeding ticket from NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">May 15 (UPI) &#8212; An Illinois museum received a speeding ticket from New York alleging its replica Knight Rider car was caught on a traffic camera &#8212; but the car hasn&#8217;t moved in over a decade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Volo Museum revealed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/volomuseum\/posts\/pfbid02dwGSxiZQFWbtiW48R8E53kkUEHa8eUJFkqsutdE68REafcrShKpEok35YoF6gGpRl?\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:on social media;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;on social media&quot;}\" class=\"link \">on social media<\/a> that it received notice in the mail that its 1982 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am, a replica of the talking car KITT from 1982-1986 TV series Knight Rider, was caught on camera going 36 mph in a 25 mph zone on Ocean Parkway in New York City.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The car in the traffic camera photo bears a California novelty plate reading &#8220;KNIGHT,&#8221; which matches the plate on the museum&#8217;s car.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Their official system ties the novelty plate to Volo Museum and we got a bill for $50,&#8221; the post said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Museum officials said the KITT replica hasn&#8217;t moved in years, and hasn&#8217;t been driven on a public road in over a decade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;We are famous for our large movie and TV car collection, so at first we thought it was a joke,&#8221; Jim Wojdyla, the museum&#8217;s marketing director, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2026\/05\/14\/knight-rider-car-speeding-ticket-museum\/90079758007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:told USA Today;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;told USA Today&quot;}\" class=\"link \">told USA Today<\/a>. &#8220;We then looked it up on the official New York City website and it was indeed legit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Wojdyla said the museum&#8217;s plate isn&#8217;t even real.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;It&#8217;s just a novelty plate. We sell these in our gift shop,&#8221; he <a href=\"https:\/\/brooklyn.news12.com\/2026\/05\/14\/illinois-museum-says-knight-rider-prop-car-has-not-moved-in-a-decade-but-received-a-speeding-ticket-in-brooklyn\/4ck9DB1ducrr4OqFaplqvm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:told News 12.;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;told News 12.&quot;}\" class=\"link \">told News 12.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The museum joked Knight Rider star David Hasselhoff must have been out for a joyride.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Does anyone have Hasselhoff&#8217;s number? He owes us $50,&#8221; the social media post said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The museum has requested a hearing to challenge the ticket.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The New York City Department of Transportation said the ticket was issued in error and will be dismissed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"May 15 (UPI) &#8212; An Illinois museum received a speeding ticket from New York alleging its replica Knight&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232859,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[88610,9,56,63,65,64,31076,91354,88612],"class_list":["post-232858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-knight-rider","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-speeding-ticket","tag-traffic-camera","tag-volo-museum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232858","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=232858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}