Pennsylvania State Police say a Williamsport man tried to launder a retired NASCAR Truck Series racer into a titled, street-legal pickup — and the paperwork trail he allegedly built to pull it off is what’s now landing him in a Cumberland County courtroom.
According to a Pennsylvania State Police release relayed through local reporting, 52-year-old Yancy Cupp bought a used-up truck-series race truck directly from a NASCAR driver, bolted on a Vehicle Identification Number plate lifted from an unrelated vehicle, and used that borrowed VIN to pry a legitimate Pennsylvania certificate of title out of the system. The catch: the race truck had never carried a title or a VIN in any state, because purpose-built race vehicles don’t come with one. He then listed it on eBay as a road-legal 1999 Chevrolet S10, claiming the former NASCAR owner had converted it for the street. The former owner told troopers he’d done no such thing. It sold at the Carlisle Auto Auction for $10,000, and when investigators actually looked the thing over, the verdict was blunt: “a physical examination of the vehicle by investigators confirmed it was not street legal.” WNEP
Here’s the part that should make any gearhead wince — not the fraud, the cover story.…