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01-14-2021, 11:00 AM | #51 |
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Re: Are sleepers still a thing?
I'm sorry, a IROC-Z isn't a sleeper, no matter how quick it is. A sleeper is a vehicle that isn't expected to be fast. The IROC was marketed as being fast.
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01-14-2021, 11:13 AM | #52 | |
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That Iroc-Z in the link could hang w/Farm Truck w/o the ginormous exhaust, big bore BBC, & huge slicks. We don't have to agree.
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01-14-2021, 01:42 PM | #53 | |
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01-14-2021, 01:52 PM | #54 |
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Re: Are sleepers still a thing?
When I think of "sleeper", I don't necessarily think of the fastest thing around, but, a vehicle that is a lot faster than anyone expects it to be.
Obviously, my Longhorn is not going to be a 13 second machine, just faster than a typical old 3/4 ton truck. RE; Chevelles. I think of the third gen Chevelle as more of a sleeper because they had been neutered by low compression. A four door 70 Chevelle would be a sleeper.
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01-14-2021, 02:35 PM | #55 | |
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Long story short. It needed a motor. I was getting divorced and had to sell it to my buddy. Flash forward a couple years and his son is getting married, and he needed money for the wedding. He asked me if I wanted it back. Quick answer: Yes. I'm not sure what the motor that he put in it can do. But I do know that he spent a lot of money on it. He said it has 400 HP. which may or may not be true. He's kind of a big talker. She's not the prettiest girl at the dance. But she sure can move.
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01-14-2021, 04:08 PM | #56 | |
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Actually, I like your old truck a lot.
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My 2020 2.0L Turbo Equinox new family whip. I read another source where they got the 0-60 down to 6.3, that may have been an AWD version: Quote:
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01-14-2021, 05:03 PM | #58 |
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Re: Are sleepers still a thing?
It could be the twin of one I used to own.
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01-14-2021, 06:25 PM | #59 | |
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01-14-2021, 08:01 PM | #60 |
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Re: Are sleepers still a thing?
Nice thing about a pickup like that, folks always yield right of way to you at a 4-way stop
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01-14-2021, 11:13 PM | #61 | |
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Big tires and loud exhaust does not automaticly = fast. I have watched many a fat tire, loud as heck car run 14's at the 1320, all day, not just one run down the track. So, fat tires and loud would not make me automaticly think super fast. Like I said above, it isn't grandpa looking/sounding sleeper. but with what it is, and what it had been able to keep up with or beat, it is a sleeper at that level. On any given week end night, There might be a vehicle that show up that look really dast, and wasn't and another that was darn fast. or the car that looked like grandma loaned to you, that went like stink. |
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01-14-2021, 11:24 PM | #62 |
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Heh, one of my younger brothers bought the '60 Chevy Parkwood wagon from the estate after my mother died. He put a 355 Chevy in it, with some sort of 3 speed OD trans, maybe a 200 or a 700, well beefed for the horsepower put into it. Some kind of Ford 9", mid- 3.5x rear posi gear. Not all that loud. So, he's sitting at a light, and a couple of guys in a newer Suburban are looking over and chuckling at the old guy in the station wagon (he was about 56 at the time). The light goes green, he gets a huge hole shot, and is stopped at the next light when the 'burb guys pull up, and ask him what he has in it. He just replied, "I don't know, it's my mom's car".
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You guys don't have to agree. It doesn't bother me. But when I watched that car line-up I figured it was an easy win for the competition. Then.... it won. Rinse, wash, repeat. Crazy thing was then I would see it driving around during the week blending in w/everything else around it not seeming out of place @ all. Just another cheesy plastic 90's TPI car.
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01-15-2021, 12:03 AM | #64 | |
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Many vehicles that are surprise, it is the whole package, not just dumping hp at it. They science out the whole drivetrain and able to use what is thrown at it to the ground. |
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01-15-2021, 12:19 AM | #65 | |
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Re: Are sleepers still a thing?
I thought we were talking about real Chevelles.
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01-15-2021, 12:23 AM | #66 |
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Re: Are sleepers still a thing?
This with an LS-7 is a sleeper:
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01-15-2021, 12:46 AM | #67 |
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Exactly. A wolf that seemlessy blends in among the sheep even to those aware of the game.
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01-15-2021, 08:05 AM | #68 |
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Are sleepers still a thing
Some of my Grandkids still wear them !! |
01-15-2021, 08:54 AM | #69 |
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Ouch.
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01-15-2021, 11:57 AM | #70 |
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Beat me to it. I was going to post a pic of Dr. Denton's footed pajamas.
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I had this 69 dart back in college. Perfect grandma-style baby blue and white two-tone paint. Not the greatest pictures, but I kept the body/interior just like the first pic, and installed a 383 with a lumpy cam, 727, 8-3/4 with skinny tires and hub caps (which you can sort of see in the second pic). It was hard to squeeze that big block in there!
Pulling into parking lots on cruise night people just stared, because what they heard didn't match what they saw.
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01-16-2021, 02:05 PM | #74 |
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This was the 56 Bel Air we had. It was a sleeper for sure! It was left all orignal outside and inside. Only adding AC and a blue tooth radio.
But underneath was a total different story. LT-1 motor out of a 96 SS Impala tuned with a 4l60 over drive. Headers with 3" S/S pipes all the way out back. Front power disc brakes up front. She would do 130 easy and still had more but I ran out of road. I drove it at Charlotte motor speedway at 100MPH around the track several laps.
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Never judge a book by its cover.
I've been married enough times to figure that out.
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