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$2000 Challenge , formula sae , Project car
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.

$2000 Challenge | Corvair | Project car | AngryCorvair
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 …

Patrick Caherty
GRM+ | $2000 Challenge | MG | #tbt | $1500 Challenge
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.

J.G. Pasterjak
$2000 Challenge | Tech Tips | Project car
Tech Tip: Broken Taillight? Grab some LEDs.

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

Paris Van Gorder
$2000 Challenge | #tbt | $1500 Challenge
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 …

Bill Cuttitta
$2000 Challenge
Is it a Miata? Is it a Beetle? It’s our $2000 Challenge winner.

Part Miata, part Beetle, part rat rod, part low-buck racer, this unique ride is the winner of our 2025 Grassroots Motorsports $2000 Challenge.

Paris Van Gorder
$2000 Challenge | $1500 Challenge
Our very first low-buck motorsport event, the $1500 Challenge

Before we challenged competitors to build a race for under $2000, we hosted our very first low-buck event, the $1500 Challenge.

David S. Wallens
$2000 Challenge | SCCA | gridlife | Column
The motorsport events I’m looking forward to most this year

We might already be three months into 2025, but the motorsports season is just getting started.

Paris Van Gorder
$2000 Challenge | Datsun | Datsun 510 | Buick V8
#TBT: A Datsun 510 with a V8 mounted in the passenger’s seat

What's so unusual about the V8-powered Datsun 510 Jeff Hixson and Minh Duong entered into our annual $2000 Challenge back in 2003? The V8 didn't live under the hood.

Scott Lear
$2000 Challenge | Volkswagen | Batman | Batmobile
#TBT: Batvan, a Batmobile built for less than $2000

This low-buck, Batman-themed racer is a custom combination of a 1966 VW Kombi bus and a 1984 Chevy Monte Carlo–all built for under $2000.

David S. Wallens
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