Here's my sleeper in the mid 60s.
A 1931 Model A Ford, chopped but not channeled.
Shown after I had put a V8 Olds engine in it, but before any body work.
The Model A came with only a 5 gallon gas tank, so I replaced the
"rumble set" with a 40 gallon tank.
http://www.hemenway.com/ModelA-Olds.jpg
Shot with a Pentax H1-A and cheap film from Sears Roebuck.
Jim
Adam Maas wrote:
frank theriault wrote:
On 9/3/05, Herb Chong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
car owner make their cars as noticeable as possible when they customize.
Usually, but not always.
I heard that there were times, when people actually raced for pink
slips, that a sleeper or Q-ship was an advantage, insofar as no one
would want to race against a car that looked too hot.
I recall that Plymouth made the most innocuous looking family sedan
then dropped a hemi into it (somewhere around '67). Won a lot of
street races. Any customization was (for that car at least) normally
performance related only, IIRC.
cheers,
frank
That still happens. And they still race for pink slips. There's a guy
here in Toronto with a mid-80's T-bird who's fairly notorious for his
sleeper.
My favourite sleeper though was the 1991 GMC Syclone. An AWD, 285hp
light pickup that did 0-60 in under 5 seconds and ran a 13 second
quarter-mile. This in the day of the 200HP Trans Am.
-Adam
