The 24 Hours of Lemons has inexplicably announced its 2025 schedule. Check it out here (if you dare).
How to best follow a masterpiece like a $2000 Challenge-winning Jeep Cherokee? With a turbo-six-powered AMC Spirit, of course.
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.
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.
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.
Cheap speed? How about a turbo Festiva? It kinda uses a Miata engine.
Not just any 280ZX, but one breathing through a Pinto carburetor.
A real Ferrari in a Lemons race? How about a rebodied Nissan instead?
Neal Losey had a year to remember, racing 37 cars, competing at 18 tracks across the country, en route to a 24 Hours of Lemons national drivers' championship.
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.
