GREENWICH, Conn. (AP)  -- An attorney said Friday he's halted an eBay auction of an original KITT-- the talking car that helped David Hasselhoff escape bad guys on the '80s TV series "Knight Rider'' -- because he's had more inquiries than he can handle.

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.

Patrick R. Gil, the attorney for Kissel's estate, said Friday that press reports prompted so much interest in the car that he had more bids than he could handle from Hawaii, where he is on vacation. Gil, who had never used eBay before, said he plans to list the car again when he returns next month.

"This is the last item of Kissel's that I have to sell, so I have a special interest in it,'' he said.

The highest bid when Gil ended the auction was $40,100.

Kissel apparently bought his KITT from an auction house for $69,000 in 2005, but never picked it up. It's still in storage in California. Gil says pictures are available 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.