Top Day 2 Musclecars?

[ANDY M]

OK Since I'm an old geezer who grew up in the Detroit area and actually wasted some of my youth on Woodward Ave. I will toss in my 2 cents.
JMHO but the origin of "Day 2" is some 16 year old kid buying his first used car and then trying to make it go faster with as little cash as possible.
These cars were called "HOT RODS". The concept of buying an old beater and then adding your own mods, thus causing your old beater to lose its status as a stock car goes back to the late 1940's, and goes on to today.
Day 2 could be any car with parts from Jegs or Summit bolted on.
Guys with cash have been building sleepers for generations. Just look at what kids are doing to Honda Civics or any other cheep car that can be modified with aftermarket parts.
When the gas crisis hit in 1974, big block cars were getting crushed like the Lions with less than two minutes to play. There are so many ways to modify a car that the "bracket racer" is the only fair way to race. Run what you brung, give yourself a tenth, and don't be a sandbagger.
Also, in my wasted youth street racing was done from a roll, not from a dig. Hard to do at a track. (Just saying) [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/rolleyes.gif[/img]
OK, please return to the regularly scheduled rants.
Andy [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/beers.gif[/img]