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Randy Pobst returns as $2000 Challenge Special Guest

Pro racer Randy Pobst returns as the Grassroots Motorsports $2000 Challenge Special Guest for 2026.

Making the world a better place, one low-buck Firebird at a time

Not just an inexpensive, Oldsmobile V8-powered Firebird, but a means to raise funds for a good cause, too.

Learn new uses for duct tape: Sign up for our $2000 Challenge now

How fast can you go without spending more than $2000? Enter our annual $2000 Challenge Presented by Tire Rack and Powered by AutoBidMaster to find out.

A $2000 Challenge tradition: a bunch of college students and a GTI

Before Georgia Tech's Wreck Racing became a mainstay of our annual Grassroots Motorsports $2000 Challenge, a few classmates ran this GTI.

$2000 Challenge: Low-buck racing in an ex-IMSA Firehawk Mitsubishi

This Mitsubishi Eclipse that competed in our $2000 Challenge in 2004 wasn't a low-buck homage to a showroom stock racer, but a genuine ex-IMSA Firehawk race car.

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Features: Make your project car faster: Advice from a Formula SAE team

Need help sorting and developing that current project? Florida’s Formula SAE squad–one of the top teams in the nation–to the rescue.

Columns: How to tackle the most radical project of your dreams?

Patrick Caherty–better known in these parts as AngryCorvair–shares his wisdom on tackling a big project when you have a family, a job and only a small two-car garage to build in.

Features: The haters couldn’t believe it: our first $2000 Challenge champ

For our very first low-buck competition, the $1500 Challenge, Dead Clown Racing put a Cosworth Vega engine into an MG Midget–and won the event.

Shop Work: Tech Tip: Broken Taillight? Grab some LEDs.

Sure, you could buy a new taillight, but what fun is that?

Features: Autocross? Drag racing? This turbo Voyager did it all | #TBT

As we found out in the April 2000 issue, you might be amazed at how fast you can go by combining $1500, a turbo minivan, some time, talent and a group of bench racers.

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$2000 Challenge project car updates

Do I save my $1000 BMW or should I kick it to the curb?

My thousand-dollar BMW came with a lot of good parts, but the car has one glaring flaw: It’s a rust bucket.

If our team has any hope …

For $1000, can I turn this crusty BMW into a race car?

Award winning. Reliable. Running. Absolutely none of those words can be used to describe the car I recently purchased. I now have a rusty, old BMW in my possession–affectionately dubbed …

Help, my poor impulse control caused me to buy a crusty BMW

A Grand Marquis, a Crossfire, a Volvo P1800 older than my mom–all here to race.

When I arrived at this spring’s $2000 Challenge Presented by Tire Rack, I …

Built, tested and raced: created by the next generation of engineers

“The goal for any FSAE team is to be fast and reliable,” shares Jamie Horgos, president of ERAU Motorsports. “In the few autocrosses we attended with last year’s car, we …

A friendly reminder: cars are meant to be driven

Has our M3 been sitting too much lately? Well, you could say that.

Since purchasing our 2004 BMW M3 in the fall of 2016, we have put …

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Feb 03, 2025 by Brett_Murphy (Agent of Chaos)
2025 None 2003 Subaru WRX

The Farm Use Challenge Car----------- Build Thread: https://grassrootsmotorsports.com/forum/build-projects-and-project-cars/2003-subaru-wrx-will-this-project-actually-make-it-to-the-challenge/273937/page1/

May 21, 2024 by davidadam1110
2024 None ℚ𝕦𝕚𝕔𝕜𝔹𝕠𝕠𝕜𝕤 𝔼𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕣𝕡𝕣𝕚𝕤𝕖 𝕊𝕦𝕡𝕡𝕠𝕣𝕥 ℙ𝕙𝕠𝕟𝕖 ℕ𝕦𝕞𝕓𝕖𝕣@+1 800-417-5147

ℚ𝕦𝕚𝕔𝕜𝔹𝕠𝕠𝕜𝕤 𝔼𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕣𝕡𝕣𝕚𝕤𝕖 𝕊𝕦𝕡𝕡𝕠𝕣𝕥 ℙ𝕙𝕠𝕟𝕖 ℕ𝕦𝕞𝕓𝕖𝕣 𝕃𝕠𝕠𝕜𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕗𝕠𝕣 𝕥𝕠𝕡-𝕟𝕠𝕥𝕔𝕙 𝕤𝕦𝕡𝕡𝕠𝕣𝕥 𝕗𝕠𝕣 ℚ𝕦𝕚𝕔𝕜𝔹𝕠𝕠𝕜𝕤 𝔼𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕣𝕡𝕣𝕚𝕤𝕖? 𝕃𝕠𝕠𝕜 𝕟𝕠 𝕗𝕦𝕣𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕣. 𝕆𝕦𝕣 ℚ𝕦𝕚𝕔𝕜𝔹𝕠𝕠𝕜𝕤 𝔼𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕣𝕡𝕣𝕚𝕤𝕖 𝕊𝕦𝕡𝕡𝕠𝕣𝕥 ℙ𝕙𝕠𝕟𝕖 ℕ𝕦𝕞𝕓𝕖𝕣 𝕚𝕤 𝕙𝕖𝕣𝕖 𝕥𝕠 𝕡𝕣𝕠𝕧𝕚𝕕𝕖 𝕪𝕠𝕦 𝕨𝕚𝕥𝕙 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕘𝕦𝕚𝕕𝕒𝕟𝕔𝕖 𝕒𝕟𝕕 …

Jan 30, 2021 by Floating Doc (Forum Supporter)
1963 None Minor

Originally built by GRM forum member Tripp, competed in the 2013 Challenge. Sold to me in Jan ‘21, Challenge use stipulated. The Morris body is on an Chevy S10 xtreme …

May 13, 2022 by QuasiMofo (John Brown)
2003 None GS430

Traded an $800 Tahoe for this. I overpaid.

Nov 13, 2019 by surfshibby07
1992 None Mustang LX Coupe

2019 Challenge car. 5.0 5 speed car. trickflow top end, nitrous, and baby suspension upgrades.

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