{"id":205450,"date":"2026-05-29T15:49:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T15:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/205450\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T15:49:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T15:49:27","slug":"how-did-someone-sell-a-nascar-race-truck-as-street-legal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/205450\/","title":{"rendered":"How Did Someone Sell A NASCAR Race Truck As Street-Legal?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Police have charged a man from Pennsylvania with allegedly passing off a former NASCAR race truck as street-legal and selling it. <\/p>\n

The Williamsport resident allegedly attached a Vehicle Identification Number (VIN) plate from another vehicle onto the former NASCAR<\/a> race truck. The race truck was also allegedly titled for street use using the false VIN.<\/p>\n

A Pennsylvania State Police press release<\/a> revealed that an investigation found that the man had purchased the race truck from a NASCAR driver. After making the illegal alterations to it, he advertised it on eBay as a Chevrolet S10 that the former owner had converted to street-legal (which the former owner denied). He then sold it at Carlisle Auto Auction for $10,000.<\/p>\n

\u201cA physical examination of the vehicle by investigators confirmed it was not street-legal,\u201d police wrote.<\/p>\n

As shown in the photo above, driver Norm Benning raced the truck<\/a> at the 2023 NASCAR Bristol Motor Speedway dirt race. The only noticeable visual differences between the truck when it raced and when the man sold it were functional headlights and taillights.<\/p>\n

According to police, the man was charged with dealing in proceeds of unlawful activities; alteration or destruction of a vehicle identification number; theft by deception; forgery; criminal use of a communication facility; deceptive business practices; false application for a certificate of title or registration; tampering with public records; and board of vehicle violations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Getty Image Police have charged a man from Pennsylvania with allegedly passing off a former NASCAR race truck…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205451,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[33051,90444,28,30,29,206,31168],"class_list":["post-205450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-nascar","tag-nascar-truck-series","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-police","tag-racing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}