Dec 20, 2007 10:18 am US/Eastern
Original 'Knight Rider' Car Up For Sale On Ebay
Car Was Owned By Slain Developer From Connecticut
GREENWICH, Conn. (AP) ―
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Knight Rider DVD box cover, Universal Studios, loaded into system April 2, 2007
Universal Studios
EBay users can now bid on an original computer-driven car featured on the "Knight Rider" TV series in the mid-80s.
The car is the last possession of slain real estate developer Andrew Kissel, who was found dead in his Greenwich mansion more than a year ago. The killing is still unsolved.
Banks and creditors have already claimed more than $30 million they say Kissel owed them. Boats, cars and other items the car aficionado had accumulated have already been sold. Now Kissel's attorney has found one more "toy"—an original KITT, the computer-driven Pontiac Trans-Am used in "Knight Rider," which starred David Hasselhoff.
KITT was the computer brain of the fast, bulletproof car that talked to Hasselhoff and helped him escape bad guys.
Kissel apparently bought his version from an auction house for $69,000 in 2005.
"It's the last thing he ever owned," said Greenwich attorney Patrick R. Gil, the administrator of Kissel's estate.
The car has been listed for a couple of days, but no one has entered the minimum bid of $20,000.
"I'm a little surprised because it is a unique car," Gil said. "My understanding is that there were only four of them made specifically for the television series. I expected some 'Knight Rider' lovers to jump on it."
Kissel was found slain in April of last year just days before he was to plead guilty in a multimillion-dollar real estate fraud case. His brother, Robert Kissel, died three years ago in Hong Kong when his wife fed him a strawberry milkshake laced with poison and bludgeoned him to death with a statue.
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