The “Day Two” Look Cars Of The 2024 Muscle Car And Corvette Nationals

If you believe that muscle cars of the day were bought, loved, cared for and doted on like a beloved member of the family, have we got some news for you: they weren’t. Oh, they were bought, loved, even cared for and doted on, but they were also driven in the rain and snow, saw backroad shenanigans that left melted rubber on the quarter panels, and were hopped-up to be even more than they already were. The stock wheels were usually ditched for some stylish mags, items like tachometers and traction bars were attached, and glasspack mufflers replaced the stock parts as soon as the pocketbook allowed.

These slightly modified machines, once the ire of parents who may have helped purchase said supercar, are now their own special sub-genre of the muscle car world. These “Day Two” machines, called as such because these were the common upgrades made early on in the ownership phase, split the gap between a stock, restored machine and a completely modified car, like a built custom or a purpose-built race car. These were the machines you’d see at parking lot get-togethers, high-school parking lots and maybe even delivering pizzas on a Friday night all the way into the 1980s and possibly even the early 1990s.

The fun of Day Two machines is that they can be anything the owner wanted to be, from mild to wild. Some cars just carry items that represent their time period, like the Chevelle SS and Challenger that were being concours-judged. These cars were mostly stock, but custom license plates, plate frames, and especially the military base sticker on the Challenger’s rear bumper all told a tale. On the opposite side of the spectrum was the Dodge Tradesman represented 1970s van culture tastefully and the 1969 Camaro Z/28 that looked like a stoplight warrior, with the tall hood scoop and the fat rubber sticking out past the wheel well openings in the rear.

Do any of these cars remind you of ones from your past?

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