The executor of slain Greenwich developer Andrew Kissel’s estate has begun an eBay auction of an original KITT — the talking car that helped David Hasselhoff escape bad guys on the ’80s TV series “Knight Rider.”

Greenwich attorney Patrick Gil, who has handled the dismantling of Kissel’s estate, began selling the Trans Am on EBay Thursday with bidding starting at $20,000.

Gil had put the car up for auction last year but then removed it after he started getting calls from all over the world questioning its authenticity. Gil did more research and said Thursday it is one of the handful of KITT cars used on the show.

Kissel bought the car from an auction house in May 2005 for $69,000, but never took possession of it.

Posted: 06|13|08 at 8:11 am. Filed under: US News.