Pro racer Randy Pobst returns as the Grassroots Motorsports $2000 Challenge Special Guest for 2026.
Not just an inexpensive, Oldsmobile V8-powered Firebird, but a means to raise funds for a good cause, too.
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.
Before Georgia Tech's Wreck Racing became a mainstay of our annual Grassroots Motorsports $2000 Challenge, a few classmates ran this GTI.
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.
Need help sorting and developing that current project? Florida’s Formula SAE squad–one of the top teams in the nation–to the rescue.
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.
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.
Sure, you could buy a new taillight, but what fun is that?
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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
“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 …
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 …
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/
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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 …
2019 Challenge car. 5.0 5 speed car. trickflow top end, nitrous, and baby suspension upgrades.