Features Let's see your SLEEPERS

Rolls pretty good !!

 

Just a pretty old British sports car:



Until I fire it up:

 

This started out as a 350, went .030 over with Speed Pro flat tops, Scat rods, Lunati 276/268 cam, Dart SHP heads and intake, Lunati roller rockers, Holley 700 DP, small body HEI. Static CR is 9.75:1. Trans is a M20 with the 2.56 1st gear and 3.89 trac lock rear. Car weighs under 3500 and launches hard, I need traction bars.

 

I probably qualify, spend a day on these pins and you'll agree.

 

I dated a woman with a wooden leg, but I got mad at her and broke it off...

 

This is a pretty good old hotrod sleeper . . . just looks like a pretty stock 32 Ford . . . but when I start it, the "sleepiness" goes away! LOL No mufflers, loud ass flathead . . . it is about the most fun a guy can have in an old vintage car . . .

 

Your Cabby is as bad ass sounding flathead as any I have herd. That is one great car.

 

Thank you sir! Just wait until you see/hear the NEXT thing I'm putting together.

 

Mine is a little new for the Hamb,but here goes..1966 Plymouth Satellite..I had it out at a cruise night a few weeks ago and when I pulled in not one person took a second look.


Until I popped the hood open....


426 Hemi,4 speed,3:54 Dana from the factory.

 

Not sure if my 56 qualifies as a sleeper.
...but I raced it against my own ex 96 BMW M3 ( 321 hp) and also my uncle´s 98 Porsche 911 ( maybe around 300 or so hp) . Both had no chance in acceleration to about 130 mph( about 200 kmh), of course top speed is a different story.

 

My daily is a 300 hp station wagon....but man is it O/T!

 

That is some awesome shit right there!

 

beaner, your tits

 

Not mine but looks stock. However it has a 900hp BBC under the hood.

 

I guess this doesn't count ?

 

What about 'em.

 

A video to hear it and see how it goes, please?

 

From 45 years ago, my first trip to Bonneville. Phil Stevenson's 55 Chevy -- with a 390 Cadillac with 4 97s and wonderful Jet-A-Way Hydramatic. He drove it there. No great acceleration, but ran 149 on the salt.

 

Ha! I was dumbfounded when my relatively liberal friend Amy Ryan sent me an email. I wasn't sure I even wanted to open an email from [email protected]. When I asked her about it, somehow she had never noticed that her first initial combined with her last name suggested anything about the purity of her ancestry. She changed her email address in a hurry! It was especially funny since she had no German blood at all: she was Irish. But she certainly had the blonde hair and blue eyes to look the part of an aryan.

 

The last true "sleeper" I had... '50 Ford panel with a 394 Olds and early Hydro. It sure surprised a 'Vette driver on the freeway one day. I drove it every day for about 3 years until I finally managed to blow the Olds up. Picture was taken 43 years ago.

 

Now that's a sleeper!

 

I am right in the middle of building one. Pics are the hulk the day I hauled it home and the day I installed the engine and trans (yesterday). Engine is a 406" FE with 4 speed trans.

 

Our shop truck in about'70 was a '49 F-1with a 394 and an early hydro. Lots of late'40s early '50sFords got the big olds and a hydro or a 4 speed back then where I was at. it is a natural swap.

Love the panel.

 

Where I grew up (Chowchilla Ca), farmers were buying new 59-60 Ford pickups and immediately putting in new Olds motors and hydros. Did it for pulling cotton and horse trailers. Their kids would get them once in a while and really surprise alot of the faster cars of the time.

 

I owned this '55 Chev wagon from 1976 - 1978 when I lived in Dayton, Ohio. It was sportin' a 327 w/single 4bbl, tuned headers, a bad assed cam and a 4-speed. Prior to this pic the wheels were painted different colors and a wheel may or my not have had a hub cap or wheel cover. It had a cheap paint job with bumpers painted white. But it ran like a scalded dog and was usually the first car to the next red light.

I sold it for $600.00 bucks and thought I had made a fortune. I had about $450.00 bucks in it, ...not counting rear tires. Almost bought a '40 Willys street gasser before I bought the wagon for $900.00. Didn't buy it, ...thought it was overpriced.




Anybody in Dayton, OH remember this car..??

 

Did her name happen to be Consuelo?

 

I've had a healthy respect for sleepers since I got my ass handed to me by a crusty, rusty, 1963 Dodge Dart wagon in 1974. I was driving a '69 Olds 4-4-2 and laughed when he revved his engine at the light. Young and foolish, I fell for it and he beat me by 4 car lengths. Found out later he was running a hot 340, 4 speed combo and the car was purpose built to beat muscle cars.
Sometimes people can be fooled by the driver too. My avatar had a .030 over 1970 429, .509 lift, 294 degree duration cam, toploader 4 speed and 9" with 3.73s, fiberglass front clip. Not exactly a sleeper in its own right, it was my daily driver in the mid-late '90s when my wife and I got together. Living in San Diego there was no shortage of sailors with Mustangs, Camaros etc. She often drove the truck while I was out of town for work. Many a time she was on Roscrans Avenue and these guys would come alongside her at a light, see her and start joking and revving their engines. They had noooo idea who they were messing with. She'd rev the 429 and when green lit she was gone, leaving many a sailor getting laughed at by his friends because some chick in an old truck just whipped his ass. She never lost a race either.
I found out about this years later, when she finally admitted it to me. I asked why she never told me and she said "I thought you'd get mad at me for racing the truck". I said "How could I get mad? You never lost a race!" We still laugh about it to this day.

 

No pictures, but in 1963 I was driving down Sunset Blvd in Hollywood in my new 427 Galaxie. 2 guys pull up next to me at a light in a 62 T-bird that looks stock. Guy makes a wise remark so I decide to show him the short way home. All I saw was his taillights.

 

Here's my "Sleeper". 1948 Plymouth, 355 SBC, TH350, Tru-Trac 8 3/4" rear. Looks completely stock until you get a closer look. Capable of running MUCH faster than I drive it, and I don't thrash on it. A pleasure to drive, and it's gotten a lot of compliments at shows.