Sleepers! Anybody into sleepers here?

my current partially finished project (off-topic for HAMB) is a daily-driver '66 chevy II wagon, solid lifter 327 with big heads and a single plane, underhood cold air, 200R4 on the column with a 9.5" converter, 4.10s in the original 8.2" ten bolt, 14" steel wheels, '66 dog dish hubcaps, restored blue interior with white paint, shift light in the back of the dash cluster hooked to the top of a two step. Its a little sleepy.

 

I love sleepers! Here is mine...or at least I think it is a sleeper. I am currently running whitewalls all the way around.

 

This was my sleeper back in the day,426 HEMI,4-speed and 4:10 dana.I would replace the hemi emblems with 383,very fun to mess with the wanna be's

 

Doesn't matter on the HAMB no one believes us anyway.

 

1965 Biscayne running a 60 over 454, Merlin heads, Comp Cams and dual quads. Trans is a Richmond 6 speed.

 

Is that yours? YUMMM!

 

The following story is about how much I love me some slepe cars.
Hence my username.
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I'm trying to make my roadster a sleeper. Full hood and sides, cheap black paint job for a cheap 'glass body, 5.0 H.O. with all the goodies/4 spd toploader, 4.11s w/ 31 spline axles, etc etc.

Around the mid-90's I had a '67 Mustang with a 200 6 cyl. Looked OK, ran OK. A guy with a mid-70s camaro always pulled up next to me. He had a tunnel ram with lopsided, mismatched carbs. It sputtered and popped. He tried to race me about once a week for about 2 months. Finally, I had enough.

Pulled the Stang into the shop and dropped in the 351C I had been building. (Still had the 4-bolt front and rear end to keep it SLEPE...
I roamed the streets on the edge of town (Great Falls, MT) looking for that guy, and about 3 weeks later, here he came.

Light turned green and I hit the GO pedal. Launched off the line and saw him still sitting at the light. Couple weeks later, he pulled in behind me and stayed well back.

 

nice sleeper!

 

the famous OKC farm truck!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBfFW3W4sH4&feature=related

 

The OKC Farm Truck has to be my favorite sleeper of all time

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSZ05X3H-xE&feature=fvw

 

And this one isnt hamb friendly either . But you GOTTA watch it.

Plain and simple lookin old Jeep CJ7 SPANKS a ferari testarosa.

The Heep has a 572 shoe horned into it . Theres more vids , this is it vs the ferari
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjDHne15RVw

 

Oh yea. Thats evil! Love the open canopy door.

 

I love the goat. Fell off my chair.

 

Thats actually downright pretty, to my twisted, distorted perception anyway. nice looking car.

 

Yea, i saw your sedan on streetfire. NASTY!

 

^^^Yeah, the wagon is a bitchin' car, but technically it is NOT a sleeper. (Crager wheels)

 

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It isn't Hamb friendly, but my uncle in 1969 was given a college graduation gift by my grandmother. It was a 1969 Dodge Dart 383 with a 4 speed. It was special ordered by someone who ended up getting shipped off to Vietnam. My grandmother got it cheap. It didnt have anything emblems or markings to say what it was. My uncle and father drag raced it in Brooklyn and Boston.

I have seen pictures, it looked like a little old ladies car.

 

OKC is not #%*&'n around Damn!

 

Buddy of mine had a dented up olds 88 POS. Bad red with one Flat black spray painted front fender. Just looked like junk. Stock wheels and hub caps.


And a Z28 motor with stall converter.

12.66 @ ocir

He would race on Whittier Blvd for gas and beer money.
Harry always had plenty of both.

 

When I was a young guy, we dumped a basically stock '69 440, right down to the iron manifolds, in a buddy of mines white '68 Valiant 2 door sedan with a set of 3.91s in the back. That was pretty sleepy. And i built an LT-1 clone, and put it in my brothers yellow & white, long-box, '74 GMC fleetside work-truck with 4.10s in the back. Another one, i didnt have much to do with it, friends car, solid lifter 4bbl cleveland with an FMX 10" converter and 4.89's in a green '70 torino wagon, watermellon green with black steel rims and dog-dish hubcaps. There were a BUNCH of sleepers around here.

 

happy sleeper?

 

These are all great stories and pirtures. I don't have any to add, but I like to look.

 

Had a real sleeper back in the early 70's. A 1957 Chev Carryall tyhat looked stone stock, but I had a 389 Pontiac with tri power under the hood, and a TH400 behind it. Used to love to whip on guys with their muscle cars!
In hi school my best friend and I put a 413 Mopar Police Interceptor with Torqueflite into his '55 Chevy 2dr. sedan. Didn't take long before the whole school knew about it, and it wasn't much of a sleeper after that.

 

Im guessing most would have seen this , bone stock 'looking' model a powered by a cosworth motor .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFSGSL3Nrmc

Build pics here . Well worth a look if you havent seen it .
http://www.mat.fi/n_index.php?nav=gallery_view&gallery=project1929fordmodel-a&g=13

 

its the nature of the beast that most of these are off-topic, your sedan, my unfinished wagon, that psycho pick-up. But I bet they will cut some slack on this one. And your sedan flat honks.

 

The real sleepers we drove in the '60s didn't have any "dumps" showing or wide wheels or Tachs or big engine flags. They always had "dog-dish" hubcaps. You could only street drag locally ONCE,as after that the word was out and you had to drive to other parts of town (Dayton, Ohio) or to other towns to find an unsuspecting racer or just had a lot of fun during the day at EVERY stop light.
Now that I'm old, I still love 'em, such as this '63 Ford Galaxie, original paint (scuffy) Custom 300 that I dropped in a 428/4 speed,Electric cut-outs, 239 flags and named it "SERTA" (The Perfect Sleeper). Car is now in Lake Placid, Fl.

 

32 ford coupe.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63A9w8gZcLs