Entrant: MG Car Club Florida
Event years: 2003
Budget spent: $1625.00
The $2000 Challenge welcomes all kinds of machines, from oversized American land yachts to the ever-popular Little British Car. Twenty years ago, Bill Vandal and MG Car Club Florida entered an MGB from 1980, the model’s final year of production. It was brought at the last minute when a 1974 MGB, the club’s planned entry, hadn’t yet run.
The MG finished 52nd out of 65 or so entries, with its mid-18-second run down the drag strip likely not helping things. “The only cars an MG will beat at the drag race are the ones that break,” Bill told us.
Make your own low-buck memories at the Grassroots Motorsports $2000 Challenge Presented by Tire Rack, which returns to Gainesville, Florida, April 6-7, 2024.