“What is a race car?”

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A few weeks ago our buddy James Crosby, who does some trick fabrication and design work for Ridetech, was on his way home from the Pleasanton Goodguys show behind the wheel of his 1990ish half-ton Chevy truck, pulling Ridetech’s west coast Camaro project on the trailer. Coming over the Grapevine on Interstate 5, he blew the trans up in the truck in grand fashion. We’re talking fire and everything. It took all his bottled water and other random crap to put it out, but at least the truck didn’t burn down. Anyway, after calling a tow truck and making arrangements for them to come pick up the truck and trailer he decided he would have them towed to another buddies shop and just drive the Camaro home. This is where it got interesting.

The California Highway Patrol officer who had stopped to check on James wasn’t really thrilled when James told him what his plan was. You see, the Camaro has Ridetech, Baer, and Falken decals all over it. The cop asked, in all seriousness, “Isn’t this a race car?” To which James responded, “Well yes and no. It’s a street car that gets raced a lot, but it’s licensed and insured and legal.” After scratching his head and looking over the Camaro, the cop just shook his head and let James get on with it.

Which then inspired our question. Normally the question is “What is a street car?”, but today it’s the other way around, and with any luck will spawn days worth of debate on the subject. Street car, race car, whatever.
The BangShift Question Of The Day is “What is a race car?”