Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire If you were to build the ultimate 'sleeper' car.

Any old rust bucket fixed up mechanically.

I`d just buy a new V8 super charged black Camaro

Crown Vic (NOT CVPI) with a built Godzilla and turbos for quiet power ladder.

Buy a Subaru WRX STI.

Better yet, buy a used Sport bike for $3,000 and blow the doors off pretty much every car on the road.

I saw "sleeper car" and the first thought to come to mind was -
a hearse!

Tesla!!!! With a gremlin body.

Had a 76 Lesabre, ended up dropping a junkyard motor in it when the 350 went south. Junkyard guy told me to pull the motor out of that Skylark down the hill, I could have it for 200 bucks. The Skylark wasn’t a Skylark. It was an Olds 442. With a 455 in it. Took it and dropped it in that Lesabre, got the shock of my life. That car would smoke a Mustang GT down the road, and do it again stoplight to stoplight. Could do donuts on dry pavement from a moving start. Never knew what had been done to that motor, but it made a land yacht into the fastest car I ever had.

I have a Porsche 914 with an LS1 in it.

I have no idea where the limits are with car and am wise enough not to test them.

Let’s just say it hauls ass.

2400 lbs
400 hp

Had a buddy in college that had a ‘73 Capri with a built 289 stuffed into it. SOB was stupid fast.

I knew a guy that had an 80s era AMC wagon with nicely built V6 in it. It would out run most of what was on the road in the 90s.

Pennsylvania used to have a semi rig with radar, the truckers dubbed it, Mother Goose.

Very cool! Would love to see pics

I guess amongst its peers mine is kind of a sleeper. ‘71 LeMans w/o the endura front end so it doesn’t look at all like a GTO. Has a pretty stout 455 in it though. The 455 was an option but the 350 poncho was far and away the most common engine in the lemans. There’s a small rocker panel emblem that gives it away if someone looks close.

By anything and put a Chevy LS motor in it. There's all kinds of installation kits available for these engines. All you need is money. If you want a real fast sleeper put a turbo on it.

Sweet car !

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Nova ii

Badass chevy there. The toolbox is a nice touch

Maybe not:

IIRC Paul Newman had a Volvo station wagon equipped with a V-8 that harbored something like 400 ponies … back in the day when the Volvo was de rigueur for soccer moms.
Pretty good sleeper.

Volvo 240 sedan with a LS running lots of squish.