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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.

GRM+ | $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
GRM+ | $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
GRM+ | $2000 Challenge | Honda | honda crx
#TBT: A budget CRX racer built with a Chevy V8 and a Mustang chassis

This wild build that competed in our $2000 Challenge back in 2004 is an amalgamation of a Honda CRX body, Ford Mustang floor pans, a Corvette frame and a Chevy …

Bill Cuttitta
GRM+ | $2000 Challenge | MG | mgb
#TBT: Turning a rusty MGB into a small-block-powered budget racer

Back in 2010, the Nelson family brought an MGB powered by a Chevrolet small-block V8 engine to our annual $2000 Challenge.

Alan Cesar
$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 | Racecouch
How to turn an ordinary couch into a RaceCouch

Georgia Tech’s Wreck Racing transformed a couch–itself a team member of long standing–into a motorized piece of living room furniture.

David S. Wallens
$2000 Challenge
How to win the $2000 Challenge? You have to be there to find out.

What started out 25 years ago as a simple way to prove racing can be done on the cheap has exploded into a wild, motorsports-fueled family reunion.

Tom Suddard
$2000 Challenge
$2000 Challenge: Like a fast family reunion for hardcore car nerds

Is our $2000 Challenge transitioning? Entrants seemed to place even more emphasis on welcoming new people to the sport, from the next generation to old friends.

David S. Wallens
$2000 Challenge | Zamboni
#TBT | The epic tale of an ice resurfacer turned autocrosser

This $2000 Challenge entry met the rulebook approval by combining a Zamboni ice resurfacer with parts from a Mazda Miata and a Ford Mustang.

Sarah Young
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