What is Considered a Day 2 Car?

[rsatz28]

I've seen the term "Day 2", and I have an idea. But what exactly is considered a Day 2 car?

[MosportGreen66]

A Day-2 car is a old car with modifications that would be done the "second day" of owning the car. Arguably the most common day-2 mod is to take off the exhaust manifolds/smog (if need be) and bolt on a set of headers. Hooker, Kustom, Hedmans... Other modifications include wheels... Cragars, T.T., Fenton, Ansen, etc. Vintage Tach... Stewart Warner, Dixco, Sun. Traction Bars... E/T, Lakewood. One of the most over sited items of day-2 trim, the bias ply tires... Mickey Thompson Indy Profile, with Wide Ovals or Polyglas GTs. Maybe some Drag 500s or Blue Streaks... I too have forgotten very this important aspect. Other day-2 trim items include Flex Flan, Glitter Steering wheel, Cal Custom Valve Covers (finned for that matter). Decals, tons of decals and the list continues for a long while.

Look at SC69Sam Scardino's 1969 Camaro Z28 for an effective study of the day-2 style trim. His Sweet Ride was just featured in the "Member's Rides Section". Hope this helps.

[rsatz28]

Dan, Thanks!

[Lynn]

Don't forget the Accell dual point distributor.

Lynn

[Ozark]

Day 2 ROCKS! Thats the way they were back in the day. Nobody bought a muscle car and left it bone stock. I would sure like to see more of it!

[Verne_Frantz]

And don't forget to "toss" the original air cleaner in favor of a small chrome one(s), and the required set of S/W gauges under the dash.

Verne
(and if the factory didn't put a Hurst shifter in it, we did!)

[427TJ]

Don't forget the Gabriel High Jackers stickers---the ones with the jacked-up jackrabbit doing a burnout...

All the aftermarket speed parts on a "Day 2" car must be from the year the car was built or earlier. No modern parts, wheels, etc., and if you really want to nail it, you gotta' run belted tires.

EBay: Look for anything related to "Day-2ing" a car to go sky-high in price. Once this trend takes off prices will too.

Day 2, when done right, is and and

[musclcar]

my car is built up to resemble a day2 old school theme.it's a 72 camaro ss with a 350 sbc all of the engine parts & accessories are all 70's vintage parts.here is what's on the engine : edelbrock TR1-X tunnel ram with early 70's holley 600cfm carbs,older mallory unilite and accel super coil,flex a lite "green" fiberglass flex fan and M/T finned valve covers.the camshaft in the motor is the GM mechanical "off-road" #140 cam and and it sounds nice.now the camaro also has the look of the 70's with ansen 15x4 slot mags and 15x10 us-indy slot mags.i've got a L88 hood with a grafted in 7" tall GM grump lump hood scoop to cover the tunnel ram.the interior is also 70's with a sun blue-line tach on the colum and a B&M quick-click shifter replacing the factory console

[Salvatore]

You win the prize! Lets see some pictures. I would say.....Hitting the nail on the head.

[njsteve]

Here is my 1970 426 Hemi Charger R/T-SE back when I first saw it in Jersey with 12,000 miles on the clock in 1987. It had been sitting since 1973 in this form. Fat and skinny Cragers, Parnelli Jones L60x15 rubber in the back and discount E70x15 fronts. A real day2 dinosaur.