Grassroots Motorsports
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Make your own low-buck memories October 23-24 in Gainesville, Florida. Join us at the Grassroots Motorsports $2015 Challenge Driven by General Tire and sponsored by CRC Industries: grassrootsmotorsports.com/challenge. ENTRANTS: Jim Thwaite and Misft Toys Racing TOTAL BUDGET: $1861.25 $ EVENT YEAR: 2010 LEARN MORE: grasssrootsmotorsports.com/challenge ? Great Moments I N $ 2 0 0 0 C H A L L E N G E H I S T O RY It's a Wartburg. A what? A Wartburg–well, a Warburg 311, to be precise. East Germany's Automobilwerk Eisenach produced the Wartburg between 1956 and 1965. Call it a continuation of a prewar BMW. Not surprisingly, few made it to our shores. One, somehow, wound up in the hands of the braintrust behind the 24 Hours of LeMons. They offered a bounty: This car would go to the most deserving soul, and he or she would receive no penalty laps. Jim Thwaite, a man with several odd creations already to his credit, penned the winning argument. Jim and his Misft Toys Racing crew revived the Wartburg, in the process converting the front-drive, two-stroke sedan to a rear- engine, Subaru-powered freak show. Take that, communism. anthony neste photos