theres a 69 Dodge Dart 2 door running about here intown. Its got a 440 with a 6 pack/4spd in it.Stock hupcaps stock apearing rims on the rear but they are 12" wide. Full tube of course. Quite exhaust on it. Pulled up next to it one day got a good look at it and the only way I figured out it had a 440 was it had a little sticker in the rear 1/4 window that said 440-6Pack To Go. I have heard its pretty freaking wild. Looks all stock and sounds it too.
Had a buddy with a Gremlin. BUILT 401 with 4-speed and 4.55 locker rear end. Faded PURPLE factory paint with 'Levi's' interior, factory hubcaps on wide steel wheels. Fucking thing was scary quick and made more than one big block Chevelle owner crap his pants, circa 1977. But for me the all-time sleeper of sleepers, factory division, is George Krem's 1964 Studebaker Challenger R3, 4-speed with a 4.55 posi rear end. This was a factory 13 second car on skinny bias ply tires. This is one badass ride. It was rated at 335 horsepower, but I think George has had it dynoed and it's closer to 400. I don't think the engine has been apart since 1964. Here he is smoking an Olds W30: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXJAKMr9HwY
Years ago the police at Hiram GA (where US 278 and GA 92 cross, used to be a sleepy rural crossroads, Petty's Store on the corner) had a '65 Ford pickup truck that caught many a speeder on 278 back when it was a two-lane road. Don't know what it had in it but it would haul.
At the cruise to the lake, there was an old restored cadillac. It was beautiful. Groucho pointed out the dump tubes and slapper bars. Unfortunately, the hood was down and I left before it was started, but I heard it had quite a rumble.
Boy you got that shit right. Would that be awesome or what and it only went for $2500. Damn, I'd have went and got that little hummer ..Maybe I'm fucked up but I've always thought something could be done with those ugly assed things ...
Not period correct for here but I got a '71 chevy C10 short bed 2wd. Still got the 350 badges on it but I slapped a 450 horse 396 in it. Trucks pretty straight but has bad paint and I run studded snow tires on it all year. Around here there's no emissions and lots of trucks, so you have lots of nasty sounding trucks that won't do shit. Mine blends right in with glasspacks dumping out under the cab, but when I turn the posi 12 bolt I don't just do a big smokey burn out, I do a big SPARKY smokey burn out. Love it. The old lady is always pissed 'cause I won't let her drive it. No power steering no power brakes and a hell of a time keeping the wheels under it. - (oh yeah, and it sets car alarms off too!)
A friend of mine back in the 60s put a SBC in the back seat ares of a old Renault daulphine ? He was in the service at the time in OK said he would take it into town on fri & sat nights & make suse he met somthing loud & fast at the stop lights,He said once they saw the front wheels cone off the pavment & start pulling away they would usealy just back off
I had a dark green "69 Plywood Sport Suburban wagon in the 70's,luggage rack, full hubcaps. It looked like a mom's car. I removed over 250 lbs of rear seats and stuff from the car. On weekends the built up 383 had no problem making fun of the Chevy and Ford crowd on the St. Paul loop.
No one will ever top this. Ever. The baddest "stock" model A ever. http://jalopnik.com/347865/this-might-be-the-most-badass-model-a-ford-ever Go for a ride and see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFSGSL3Nrmc
while it certianly didn't have any type of documentation, the floor was correct for 4 speed. the vast majority of the guts came from a 2+2- Buckets, console, rallye gauges, steering wheel, shifter,etc,etc. for sure a factory standard shift car, no butchery on the column, stock shifter (on top) hurst guts. if it wasn't, I would be surprised.
my bud Crispy[ PISTONS HOT ROD ASSOCIATION ] has this sleeper van, strocker motor, runs low 12's.......
In 1963 me & a buddy built a 57 ford custom 300 with a new 406/405 FE motor with a 3 speed OD out of a 60 poilce car. Black walls, poverty caps, no tach, no gauges. Motor was blueprinted & we had the 406 long cast iron hipo manifolds on it by using a 58 steering box ground down, milling the exhaust side of the heads and face of the drivers side manifold and grinding a hole & brazing in an upside down domed freeze plug. Ruined a lot of chevy owners nights with it. Someone will call BS on the hipo manifolds fitting in but yes they will if you work hard enough. Modify the OD unit and you have a 6 speed trans
Off topic a hell, but so cool...A local retired Chrysler engineer had a 90somthing Chrysler LHS, V-6, 215 h.p. front wheel drive,only a couple years old at the time. looked completely stock till you looked inside. then you see the EXTRA ENGINE in the back seat. He had two V-6 215 H.P. engines; 430 H.P. all wheel drive. He said it would not spin a tire from a dead stop, but he could smoke most anything from stoplight to stop light. the guy had to be at least 65 at the time. I asked him if he liked to mess with the corvette guys and he smiled and said "every chance I get"..
A guy here in Pasadena ordered a new 62 Chevy Biscayne 2door sedan with a 409-4speed combo. From the yucko tan outside to the inside bench seat (if you didn't see the floor shift) to the skinny tires and dog dish hubcaps it screamed 6 cylinder. It was a terror on the drive-in circuit. Oh yeah, had "poor boy" written on the rear quarters behind the wheel openings. As far as I know he still owns the car and , like Jake Jacobs for years, all the cars he ever owned, 57 Nomad and others.
Here is a pic of my 55 Wagon. I wouldn't put it in the sleeper category but I would put it in the unexpected class. The car wieghs 3690lbs with me driving. This car is NOT a big block. It has a 406 small block. This weekend we had the car at the Southwest Nostalgia Drags. Its best time was 11.83. A bunch of the spectators said they enjoyed the car that day.
I TOTALLY agree! A really FINE hot rod! I think I saw where it was voted one of the 'ten best of the year' by one of the magazines. JG
I have No idea's who's this is, but i saved the pic when i saw it......... It's ugly, green, 4 door with caps......and LAUNCHES! No idea what it runs either but i'd like to know. Sleeper material to me There was another post on sleepers a while back and in it there was a 63 tempest i believe. It had a twin turbo charged BBC in it and HAULED ASS! The work done to tit to make it look stock was amazing..
sleeper i seen was a few years ago, at the 100m dash It was a white rusted, late 60s station wagon, i didnt pay to much attention to it cause i thought it was some kid who stole his grandmas car. Well it would of done great if he put more than just an engine in it. regular tires and stock suspension all it did was spin, never able to hook up, but i learned the lesson. paint doesnt make you go faster
my sleeper was a 1970 holden(gm)lc torrana coupe an aussie version of a late 60,s vauxhaul viva factory engine was a 186 cube inline 6 mine had a chrysler inline 6 265 cube bored and stroked to 294cui 3x45mm webbers huge cam 904 trans 9inch 4.56 lsd,It was pale blue datsun hub caps and a couple of those stained glass jesus stickers on the side windows only ran it once at the drags it ran 13.0 at 110mph.Oh yeah the trick was it had a 15 inch engine set back and the tailshaft was shorter than the rocker cover!I had to buy another car to licence so i could use the plates on ole blue it wasn't even close to being legal it made around 375/400 and revved to 9000 it was one of the fastest non nitrous cars around in 1990.drove it every day it got less than 4mpg but what a car.
Don't call BS on the Exhaust... it will work. Do call BS on a '60 406/405, as it wasn't available until '62. The hi po '60 FE was a 360hp 352.
Saw this at a show in Ardmore AL. a couple years back, bone stock looking Pontiac with a late model Corvette driveline, the installation looked like it came from the factory. I'm sure this has surprised a few guys on the interstate. Not Hamb friendly but I thought is was sweet.
i know where you were talking about, remember the little liquor store with the hotel behind it in dallas? it's long gone now,but there used to be a gas station I worked nights in right there,and a crazy cop who used to street race local kids at night.
now THATS a sleeper, needs to take it to one of these uppity restoration shows and screw with goldchainers. ooga horn one minute taillights the next. if you read the comments it has woodgrained billet wheels.
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