Your Projects: Monster $2000 AMC Spirit

Ed
By Ed Higginbotham
Oct 16, 2017 | AMC

A little while back member Dusterbd13 posted that he “accidentally bought a car and created a $2000 Challenge team.” We think that these accidents should happen more often.

This effort has centered around a 1980 AMC Spirit now motivated by a Ford 5.0-liter V8. You can skip to the end and check out the finished product right here.

Want to watch this thing run in person? The Grassroots Motorsports $2017 Challenge takes over Florida’s Gainesville Raceway this weekend—that’s October 20-21, 2017. Spectating is totally free.

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Comments
chandler
chandler PowerDork
10/16/17 9:57 a.m.

Nice

Jaynen
Jaynen SuperDork
10/16/17 10:54 a.m.

Wow the fenders on that are bad ass

PseudoSport
PseudoSport Dork
10/16/17 2:47 p.m.

I can't wait to see how this thing does at the challenge!

Robbie
Robbie PowerDork
10/16/17 3:02 p.m.
PseudoSport said:

I can't wait to see how this thing does at the challenge!

Understatement of the day

Dusterbd13
Dusterbd13 UltimaDork
10/16/17 3:16 p.m.

We can't wait to see how our car stacks up against the rest of the field either!

racerdave600
racerdave600 UltraDork
10/16/17 5:02 p.m.

That thing is awesome!  Maybe the best looking challenge car I've seen.  Hopefully runs as good as it looks.

alfadriver
alfadriver MegaDork
10/16/17 5:17 p.m.
Dusterbd13 said:

We can't wait to see how our car stacks up against the rest of the field either!

I haven't been following your build thread, but that's really, really, really well done.  

To the point that IF the car does not perform, spend the next year tuning the crap out of it.  

What you did really deserves that treatment.

 

Justjim75
Justjim75 New Reader
10/16/17 9:50 p.m.

That's a heck of a car for 5 or 10 grand!

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