Hot Rods Sleeper Hot Rods That Are Hard To Disguise...

Only if you sleep after the fact.

 

I had the pleasure of driving my younger brother's very ratty 1960 corvette. The Corvette looked like it had just come out of the local junk yard. It did not have shiny paint, no give away exhaust rumble, but it did have built 301"SBC, and a B & M 4 speed hydro. I was at a traffic light on the Berlin Turnpike in Newington, Connecticut and some young hot dog in an Oldsmobile 442 came up to me and starting revving his engine. I was about 28 years old at the time, a real old man to the young hot dog. When the light changed, I blew his doors off. He did not come up beside me at the next light.

 

Sleepers are what the viewer under rates based on their perception. I had a very nice street car with a 426 and a Dyers 671 on it. We couldn't pass tech for what the car could run so dialed in at 12 flat. Put hard numbers on the windows and a lot of people naturally presumed the car was a 12 second car. When street racing, a sleeper can be a car you think is a 12 second car. We were later thrown off the track for making a low 9 pass. It was all out in the open, but some people could only see the numbers on the windows. Personally, as I stated previously most of the posted cars could lead many people into thinking they were not driven fast. Not quick, but set on kill and wrung out.

 

Killer….. The ultimate sleepers made their runs at night thru the hills with a trunk full of “shine”

 

My '35 had a 60 over 327 with 69 202 heads headers and a 375 horse cam with 650 double pumper and built turbo 400 w 3.38 rear . A kid rolled up next to me in a newer gt mustang on a double lane between street lights and we had a go, I kicked his butt and at the next light he said " What the hell is in that thing ? I couldn't catch you" I said just a little 327 !

 

my Dad used to say according to hoyle all the time...

 

If ya ain’t paying attention, my school bus will gap ya off the line.

and if the wife ain’t paying attention, she’ll end up flipped upside down in her seat that’s not bolted down.

 

Mentioned in many threads, a perfect HAMB sleeper was Tom Beatty's blown Olds powered '40 Ford Panel push truck, which he'd occasionally race on the street!

 

That's sweet !

 

LOL! Good one.

Ben