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The California plate of the Volo Museum’s KITT replica. The accidental speeding ticket incident became international news. (Joe States\/Pioneer Press)<\/p>\nA replica of KITT, a car featured in \u201cKnight Rider\u201d \u2014 a television series that ran from 1982-86 \u2014 parked and on display at the Volo Museum was hit with a $50 speeding ticket earlier this month, and from New York City of all places.<\/p>\n
The incident, which museum officials say has since been cleared up, drew national and then international attention, the second such occurrence in as many months. Last month, on the 114th anniversary of the Titanic\u2019s sinking, the museum\u2019s Titanic exhibit flooded after heavy storms that week.<\/p>\n
Following the news maelstrom, the NYC Department of Transportation sent out a brief statement in response:\u00a0\u201cNYC DOT\u2019s automated speed enforcement cameras are extremely accurate, with 99.7% of all violations upheld. This violation was issued in error and will be dismissed.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jim Wojdyla, the museum\u2019s marketing director, said it has roots going back 60 years. The Grams family, which still owns the museum, ran an antique mall that became famous for selling classic cars.<\/p>\n
In the decades since, it\u2019s grown into an eclectic collection of historic, movie and TV cars, film props, carousels and animatronics, although buying and selling classic cars is still the \u201cmeat and potatoes\u201d of the business, Wojdyla said.<\/p>\n
The California plate of the Volo Museum’s KITT replica. The accidental speeding ticket incident became international news. (Joe States\/Pioneer Press)<\/p>\n
In their collection sits a replica of KITT. \u201cKnight Rider\u201d starred David Hasselhoff as Michael Knight, who fought crime assisted by \u201cKnight Industries Two Thousand,\u201d or \u201cKITT,\u201d a heavily modified Pontiac Firebird Trans Am with an artificial intelligence that could trade quips with Hasselhoff.<\/p>\n
At the Volo Museum, KITT sits just in front of a replica of the \u201cBack to the Future\u201d DeLorean. On the 75-acre property of barns, displays and even a test track, there is also an Ecto-1, from \u201cGhostbusters,\u201d several Batmobiles, various World War II trucks, halftracks and other unusual vehicles.<\/p>\n
Wojdyla said earlier this month he was sitting in the office next to Brian Grams, who runs the museum side of the business. Grams was opening the mail and handed Wojdyla a speeding ticket.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s like, \u2018This is a new one,\u2019 and hands me the ticket. I said, \u2018Oh, that sucks, you got a speeding ticket,\u2019 and he\u2019s like, \u2018Look closer,\u2019\u201d Wojdyla recalled.<\/p>\n
The speeding ticket was from New York City, and the included photo showed what looks like a black Pontiac Firebird Trans Am \u2014 the same model as KITT \u2014 bearing a bright blue California plate with \u201cKnight\u201d in yellow, the same plate that appears on the car in the TV show.<\/p>\n
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The New York Department of Transportation sent a speeding ticket to the Volo Museum for a car that appears similar to KITT from the 1982 Knight Rider show with the same plates as the museum’s replica car. The incident sparked an online and news frenzy. (Volo Museum)<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s got to be a joke,\u201d Wojdyla recalled saying. \u201cWe looked up the official New York City website to look up the ticket number, and it\u2019s a legit ticket.\u201d<\/p>\n
They\u2019re still not certain why the Volo Museum was the registered address for the fictional plate. Their vehicle isn\u2019t even the real screen car, which is in a private collection, Wojdyla said. But after posting the incident online and then sending out a news release, they saw a \u201cton of reactions,\u201d both online and in the news.<\/p>\n
The story went everywhere in the United States, from Alaska to Hawaii. Then, it went international, Wojdyla said, with even newspapers in South Korea running the story. There\u2019s been plenty of jokes about how it could have possibly happened. In the show, KITT can drive itself; perhaps their KITT took a drive on its own.<\/p>\n
NYC DOT has since had the ticket waived after all the media attention, Wojdyla said, attributing it to a simple mistake. The unusual incident has led to some wild claims online, he said, with some theorizing it\u2019s a marketing stunt. There\u2019s an upcoming\u00a0 \u201cKnight Rider: Declassified,\u201d a multi-part documentary series on the making of the original TV show, and rumors of a movie in the works.<\/p>\n
Wojdyla said they \u201cthought for sure it was a gag\u201d themselves when they got the ticket. But it wasn\u2019t \u201cgenius-level marketing.\u201d They had simply posted about a strange coincidence. Wojdyla theorized that the story had exploded as it touched on pop culture and car culture while being a funny, but largely harmless story.<\/p>\n
\u201cI guess there\u2019s just a lot of crazy news going on right now,\u201d he said. \u201cSo, stuff like this is fun to talk about.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A replica of KITT, a car featured in \u201cKnight Rider\u201d \u2014 a television series that ran from 1982-86…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":815417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[331058,5229,331057,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,269713,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,331056],"class_list":["post-815416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-knight-rider","tag-america","tag-kitt","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-speeding-ticket","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-volo-museum"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116620422650781246","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=815416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/815417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=815416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=815416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=815416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}