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Dec 20, 2007 11:13 pm US/Eastern
"Knight Rider" Trans Am For Sale On eBay
GREENWICH, Conn. (AP) ―
An original KITT - the talking car that helped David Hasselhoff escape
bad guys on the '80s TV series "Knight Rider" - is up for sale on eBay.
The black 1984 Pontiac Trans Am is being sold to satisfy the debts
of a slain real estate developer, whose killing last year is unsolved.
Boats, cars and other items owned by car aficionado Andrew Kissel
already have been sold after creditors claimed he owed $30 million.
One bid - for the $20,000 minimum - had been posted on eBay as of Thursday.
"I'm a little surprised because it is a unique car," said attorney
Patrick R. Gil, administrator of Kissel's estate. "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."
Another original KITT was put up for sale by a California auto
dealer in April. The 1982 Trans Am was fully restored and had
documentation as one of the four "camera cars" used for close-ups and
scenes where Hasselhoff, who played Michael Knight, was behind the
wheel.
That car sold in July for about $100,000, down from the asking
price of $149,995, said dealer Johnny "Vette" Verhoek of Kassabian
Motors in Dublin, Calif., in a telephone interview Thursday. He
declined to identify the buyer.
Kissel apparently bought his KITT from an auction house for $69,000
in 2005. The online auction site says pictures are available of the car
to verify its authenticity.
Kissel was found dead in his Greenwich mansion in April 2006 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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