Burbdood 74
Giver of not a single damn...
How about painting a rat in pajamas and nightcap in bed with goggles and a white scarf...
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Hot Rod people... Sleeper "theme" question for you...
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TheBeast_88K5
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How about painting a rat in pajamas and nightcap in bed with goggles and a white scarf...
Holy sh*t.... DONE!!!
Yah I like that one 
I did have a pretty stock looking V-8 Vega.. but you had to be pretty stoopid sitting next to that at a light and not thinking it was a V-8..
That was my first car...Don Hardy kit...1973 big mouth bronze Vega
Like the one in the picture...
I was in high school and didn't ever get the money to finish it... probably the most dangerous car ever built...a Vega with a V8...too much power...too little body...suspension not made for it...
Built one in high school. Then 2 after high school. The only one you cold really pound on was a full tube chassis car. Only thing vega were the tub panels, roof and doors. The kid drove it to school at least once a week. Heard through the grape vine that he still owns it.
Sleepers don't have murals painted anywhere.
Best sleeper I ever saw and helped build was a buddies malibu, 76 or something like that 4 door.
It was mini tubbed in the back but oh so slightly and he got some custom wheels. It took a while to paint the thin white stripe on the tires fresh every time we went out to race but it was worth it made the rear tires look exactly like the whitewall tires you got in the mid 80s, you know sensible tires.
Had bench seats front and rear, stock shifter, 4!!!!! mufflers to quite it down as much as possible, In addition to a sound diffuser thing.
You never open the hood on a sleeper so we messed around with the hinges so that the hood was super hard to open, but if you didn't know it would have just seemed like it was a crap car.
The good stuff here, 454 forged everything, Nitrous that the lines on were almost completely hidden, whole motor was painted flat black, He actually added just a bit to some stock valve covers to fit the roller rockers. Don't remember the brand of head but they were aluminum ( flat black of course) His car really was a sleeper. No one took notice of it at all ever until he would say something like. Oh yah lemme race you we took my Dads pickup 454 and put it in this car it runs great. Fun car
I never understood the sleeper thing. Not for me at all. I didn't run mufflers on my Dart, or my 72 shortbox.
Best sleeper I ever saw and helped build was a buddies malibu, 76 or something like that 4 door.
It was mini tubbed in the back but oh so slightly and he got some custom wheels. It took a while to paint the thin white stripe on the tires fresh every time we went out to race but it was worth it made the rear tires look exactly like the whitewall tires you got in the mid 80s, you know sensible tires.
Had bench seats front and rear, stock shifter, 4!!!!! mufflers to quite it down as much as possible, In addition to a sound diffuser thing.
You never open the hood on a sleeper so we messed around with the hinges so that the hood was super hard to open, but if you didn't know it would have just seemed like it was a crap car.
The good stuff here, 454 forged everything, Nitrous that the lines on were almost completely hidden, whole motor was painted flat black, He actually added just a bit to some stock valve covers to fit the roller rockers. Don't remember the brand of head but they were aluminum ( flat black of course) His car really was a sleeper. No one took notice of it at all ever until he would say something like. Oh yah lemme race you we took my Dads pickup 454 and put it in this car it runs great. Fun car
I never understood the sleeper thing. Not for me at all. I didn't run mufflers on my Dart, or my 72 shortbox.
Burbdood 74
Giver of not a single damn...
I love sleepers myself. My 72 Ventura looks like a mud fence...but it runs like a stabbed rat. More than once I've surprised someone when I blow past them. I'm gonna fix it up loud and proud one day, but for now it's fun to be underestimated by looks alone.
TheBeast_88K5
Banned
CityTruck.... 
Ned Kelly
1/2 ton status
Sleeper - any 4dr sedan with a big block and nothing fancy to give it away. Quiet exhaust, no fancy rims, nothing to advertise what it is.
TheBeast_88K5
Banned
Ya know...
I never once asked for the definition of Sleeper.....
I know what one is...
I was just curious about sayings, and phrases, and inside joke kinda stuff.
I never once asked for the definition of Sleeper.....
I know what one is...
I was just curious about sayings, and phrases, and inside joke kinda stuff.
Haha, funny, that was my first car too, only not a hatchback and it was a 72'.
That was my first car...Don Hardy kit...1973 big mouth bronze Vega
Like the one in the picture...
I was in high school and didn't ever get the money to finish it... probably the most dangerous car ever built...a Vega with a V8...too much power...too little body...suspension not made for it...
TheBeast_88K5
Banned
We (my father and I), had a 70-something, piss yellow, Vega.
The idea was to make it an all out drag-car....
We never did.
The crazy thing is, the drivetrain was all stock, and all WORKED PROPERLY...
This was in 2001.
Had a remote start button, too.
Not the cool kind, but the lift-the-hood, and hit the MASSIVE switch kind...
Anyone coulda stole it, no ignition key necessary.
Although, we could have caught up to you, on foot.
The idea was to make it an all out drag-car....
We never did.
The crazy thing is, the drivetrain was all stock, and all WORKED PROPERLY...
This was in 2001.
Had a remote start button, too.
Not the cool kind, but the lift-the-hood, and hit the MASSIVE switch kind...
Anyone coulda stole it, no ignition key necessary.
Although, we could have caught up to you, on foot.
my first car was a 327 Vega... followed by a procession of Mopars...
Had a flat black 1983 cutlass, healthy 350 with tall highway gears. Had some spiral type mufflers that kept it pretty quiet. Had flat black 14 ralleys on it. It was always in the shadows, but
Man could it move
Man could it move
false... boost.
that phrase started some serious **** at times back in college. (UTI)
Put that same boost on high displacement, and small displacement can't stand up. And we can go around in circles of days.
Put that same boost on high displacement, and small displacement can't stand up. And we can go around in circles of days.
exactly. this argument in an automotive tech school starts fights, lol!
Farm truck has a sweet license plate...'ZZZZZZZZ'. It's the perfect sleeper plate. You can see it in the video posted earlier.
TheBeast_88K5
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Put that same boost on high displacement, and small displacement can't stand up. And we can go around in circles of days.
Exactly... Argument over.
Saying "boost" is like comparing lab rats, but yers has steroids.
Put mine on steroids, and guess what?
Bigger, badder gawdamn rat.
