Quote Originally Posted by Bill Miller View Post
.... knowingly sells a car that has illegal parts? Should they be 'outed'?

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Representing a car as legal, when the seller has knowledge otherwise, and does not disclose such, is fraudulent. It's intentional deception, and depending on the level of severity should be outed. Missing washer bottler and claimed as a "legal" car? - Not a huge deal. Lightweight flywheel and ported heads? - Out them as a crook. If they used the [performance enhancing] parts during a race and were cheating, and another competitor knew, they would be outed, right?

The problem is the seller may not know the car has illegal parts and in fact truly does believe it to be legal. In that case, the seller has acted in good faith and made an honest mistake. The mistake should be politely pointed out to them so they can make the necessary changes either to the car, or description of item for sale.

Before they were "outed" it should be documented they know of the illegal parts, and the illegal parts should be clearly illegal. I've seen people called out on here with cars for sale, but in those cases the seller actually had listed the illegal part in the description, probably out of ignorance of the rules.

The buyer has the responsibility to make sure the car they bring to the race is legal and should not solely rely upon the sellers representations.