KITT Replica at Illinois Museum Got a Brooklyn Speeding Ticket — But It Hasn’t Moved in YearsThe Volo Museum in Volo, Illinois, just outside Chicago, has a KITT replica on static display. The museum recently received a $50 traffic ticket from New York City, alleging that the car was traveling 36 mph in a 25 mph zone in Brooklyn on April 22.The car has not left the building in years. Museum security footage confirms it was parked at the time of the alleged offense. The universe, apparently, has a sense of humor.The explanation is almost mundane once you pull the thread. The ticket arrived with traffic camera photos showing a black Trans Am bearing the California license plate KNIGHT, the same plate carried by the TV show car and the novelty plate on the museum’s unregistered display vehicle.AdvertisementAdvertisementAccording to the California DMV, a person with the last name Knight renewed their registration for that exact plate in March.Somewhere in New York City, someone is driving a convincing KITT replica with that same “KNIGHT” tag, and NYC’s camera system dutifully chased the ticket back to the only KITT it could locate in any database – a motionless exhibit in Illinois.City records show that plate is connected to five other unpaid traffic violations in New York since late 2024.Nobody Knows How the Bill Found Its Way to Illinois“The fact that we’re legally tied to a movie prop is interesting,” said Jim Wojdyla, the museum’s marketing director. “We’re known for having our Hollywood cars from TV and movies, but I have no idea how we got registered from a ticket in New York to the plates in California to the Volo Museum in Illinois. We’re still trying to figure it out.” The museum has since requested a hearing to challenge the ticket.AdvertisementAdvertisementNew York City hasn’t offered an explanation.The museum wrote on Facebook that the Brooklyn traffic camera “captured the novelty license plate (not a real plate…and also a California plate)” and linked it to their display vehicle.The museum’s theory is that the city’s system connected the novelty plate in the camera photo directly to the car in the museum’s records.How that connection was made remains unclear. The museum is unregistered in New York, and the car hasn’t turned a wheel in years.The Volo Museum is, understandably, having a great time with this.It updated its Facebook page header to read “Home of the Knight Rider KITT that famously got a speeding ticket in New York City without ever leaving its exhibit in Illinois!” and asked publicly if anyone had David Hasselhoff’s number.AdvertisementAdvertisementFor what it’s worth, Road & Track has reported that around 20 KITTs were built for the original production run, with only five originals still in existence.There’s also a Facebook group for KITT replica owners that has nearly 19,000 members – so the pool of suspects running around with a “KNIGHT” plate is genuinely not small.Knight Rider ran on NBC from 1982 to 1986. KITT, Knight Industries Two Thousand, was voiced by William Daniels and was, in the fiction of the show, essentially impossible to catch. That a stationary museum replica of the car has now accumulated a speeding citation while the real culprit drives free somewhere in New York is either a cosmic joke or the best automotive PR story of the year. Probably both.