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In the latest issue: Our 7 rules for a successful project car

Does your project have a plan? Read about our seven rules for project car success in the upcoming November 2025 issue of Grassroots Motorsports.

Tech Tip | Why buy what you can make: Hood pins

This tech tip from a collegiate competition team? Fully functional and adjustable hood pins. The total cost? Free.

Tech Tip: Did we just find the ultimate autocross numbers hack?

10 bucks and 10 minutes. That’s all you need to create these functional and clean autocross numbers.

Tech Tip: Big body gaps need filling? Try bubble wrap and spray foam

An inexpensive solution to big body panel gaps? Bubble wrap and spray foam worked for this $2000 Challenge competitor.

Read it first: Is there such a thing as a do-it-all brake pad?

Is there really such a thing as a do-it-all brake pad? Find out in the upcoming June issue of Grassroots Motorsports.

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Columns: If you’re not learning something new every day, why even get up?

What do photography, cars and life have in common? Even after decades of experience, there is always more to learn.

Columns: Does your project have a plan?

Stalled project? Maybe it's time you try to visualize the final product.

Shop Work: How I turned a two-car garage into an efficient work space

Don't have the space for a dedicated workshop? Here's how Associate Editor Chris Tropea maximized the space in his two-car garage.

Features: How to make progress on a stalled project car

How to keep that project from getting stuck in the garage? Perhaps some planning can help.

Columns: Unserviceable assembly? Don't be afraid to try and fix it yourself.

Just because the dealership says a part is unserviceable, doesn't mean you shouldn't try and fix it yourself–or at least get a second opinion from an independent shop.

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Do you also have a project car that could use some attention?

Is no news good news? That’s pretty much been the story with our M3. The latest? Well, kinda nothing.

A few planned events this spring got rained …

Club Spec Mustang: Time for its first SCCA autocross

It’s been on track and in the GRM shop. Next step for our Club Spec Mustang? Autocross.

The goal of our last work day? Bringing the Mustang back …

Our brake fluid resembled Dr. Pepper. Time to get to work.

As the sunshine swept across the sky, our GRM shop bustled with action. Someone was moving our other projects around, another was cleaning up the shop and our

Who'd say no to driving lessons with pro driver Randy Pobst? Not us.

Rand Pobst, a Mustang and two novices itching for seat time: the outcome?

During our time at the official GRM test track, the Florida International Rally & Motorsport …

Remember to renew the bits found beneath that shiny paint, too

Perhaps it was time for new shocks on our Porsche 911: The fronts leaked fluid, while someone had inscribed the rears with April 18, 1995. Joe Montana announced …

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