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24 Hours of Lemons , Low-Buck Racing
Ready your low-buck racers: 24 Hours of Lemons unveils 2025 schedule

The 24 Hours of Lemons has inexplicably announced its 2025 schedule. Check it out here (if you dare).

$2000 Challenge | AMC | Low-Buck Racing | AMC Spirit
$2000 Challenge: Sometimes, it's the (AMC) Spirit that counts most

How to best follow a masterpiece like a $2000 Challenge-winning Jeep Cherokee? With a turbo-six-powered AMC Spirit, of course.

David S. Wallens
$2000 Challenge | Plymouth | Low-Buck Racing | Plymouth Voyager
$2000 Challenge: The turbo Plymouth Voyager that started a legacy

We didn't know it then, but this factory-turbocharged Plymouth Voyager was the beginning of a lifelong friendship–and the creation of a $2000 Challenge legend.

David S. Wallens
$2000 Challenge | Yugo | Low-Buck Racing
$2000 Challenge: The rare moment a Yugo is a good omen

How do you know you've created something special? Several of the competitors that entered our first low-buck competition, the $1500 Challenge, can still be found competing in our $2000 Challenge.

David S. Wallens
$2000 Challenge | Chrysler | Mitsubishi | Low-Buck Racing | Mitsubishi Starion | Chrysler Conquest
$2000 Challenge: When $800 could get you a turbo Starion

In 2004, Tom Caimano brought a Mitsubishi Starion ESI-R to our annual $2000 Challenge–back when you could buy one for a fair price of just $800.

David S. Wallens
$2000 Challenge | Low-Buck Racing
Don’t wait: Register for the 25th anniversary $2000 Challenge today

The 25th anniversary $2000 Challenge–our automotive festival that celebrates autocross, drag racing and ingenuity–is coming this April.

Colin Wood
Dodge | 24 Hours of Lemons | Lemons of Love | Low-Buck Racing | Dodge Grand Caravan | Grand Caravan | Van Racing
One man to race a minivan in every 24 Hours of Lemons race in 2024

Zac Caldwell is setting out on a mission to compete at every single race on the 24 Hours of Lemons schedule–for a good cause, of course.

Colin Wood
$2000 Challenge | Subaru | Justang | Low-Buck Racing | Justy | Subaru Justy
A V8-powered, mid-engine Subaru Justy | Great moments in $2000 Challenge history

What looks like a Group B rally car and is powered by a (very) tired Mustang Cobra V8? That's right, the Justang.

Staff Writer
$2000 Challenge | Tire Rack | Low-Buck Racing
Live thread: 2023 Grassroots Motorsports $2000 Challenge Presented by Tire Rack

Follow this thread to stay up to date with all the low-buck thrills from the $2000 Challenge.

Colin Wood
$2000 Challenge | Tire Rack | Low-Buck Racing
May 26: Last day to register for the $2000 Challenge

Don't miss out: Registration for the 2023 Grassroots Motorsports $2000 Challenge Presented by Tire Rack ends soon.

Colin Wood
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