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$2000 Challenge | Column
The origins of the $2000 Challenge

How did the $2000 Challenge come to fruition? It all started nearly 25 years ago, one night after a day of racing at Road Atlanta–and a few beers.

Tim Suddard
$2000 Challenge | Speed Secrets
40 low-buck speed secrets from $2000 Challenge competitors

$2000 Challenge competitor or not, here's a bunch of ways to go faster on the cheap.

Staff Writer
$2000 Challenge | Subaru | 360 | LMP360
LMP360: How to build the ultimate Subaru for only $2000

Inspiration plus innovation–and more than a bit of hard work–turned this once-discarded Subaru microcar body into a fast, low-slung special.

J.A. Ackley
$2000 Challenge | Low-Buck Racing
This is what happens when budget builds compete against cars more than 10 times their value | $2000 Challenge recap

Going fast doesn’t have to involve piles of money. As Wreck Racing and the rest of our $2000 Challenge teams have regularly shown, creativity goes far.

J.A. Ackley
$2000 Challenge
2 Grand 2 Furious | $2000 Challenge coverage

Low-buck specials that can run down today’s fastest EVs? Welcome to the 2021 running of the Grassroots Motorsports $2000 Challenge.

David S. Wallens
$2000 Challenge | suspension
Suspension Mythbusting: Solid Axle vs. IRS

We often see solid-axle cars keeping up with or even outrunning their IRS-equipped competitors.

J.G. Pasterjak
$2000 Challenge | BMW
Great Moments in $2000 Challenge History: The Condor Speed Shop DTM-ish E30 BMW

Back in 2007, Carlos Mendez and James Hageman made their first Challenge appearance with an E30-chassis BMW fed by a Volvo turbocharger.

David S. Wallens
$2000 Challenge | BMW
The Tale of Two Killer $2000 BMWs

Two ’80s BMW icons rock the GRM Challenge with very different approaches

Staff Writer
$2000 Challenge | Studebaker
Millennial Falcon: Meet Calvin Nelson and His Studebaker Racer

The second generation of GRM $2000 Challengers arrives to win.

Staff Writer
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