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My Wife had a 1978 Mustang Ghia....Green with White Interior, White half Vinyl Roof, full Hubcaps, but a v-8 under the hood....that thing shocked a few dudes when the tiny little girl took'em out at a light......Yes, she scares me sometimes...heavy foot, one reason we won't be getting the Cadillac CTS-V that she keeps talkin' about
A good sleeper is a car with a 3.8 supercharged like a Buick Regal. With a pulley change and reprogram they are pretty quick.
A old Taurus SHO
yeah I always likes the Pontiac Gran Prix GTP with the supercharged 3800 V6 pretty much same car as the Buick Regal just a little more styling which in a way would reduce it's sleeper look
I knew a guy who had a pinto with nitrous injection and a drive train built to take it, but it was not a good sleeper. Punch it and you would end up just spinning in circles.
Dodge Ram Trucks with the 393 HP motor are sort of sleepers. It is funny to occasionally leave boy racers, mustangs etc, sitting wondering what happened - in a pick up truck. What?
It had zero options, not even a radio or heater or floor mats and a manual transmission, manual brakes and manual steering and only a soft top and even canvas doors. Did not even have shift on the fly, had to go out and lock hubs to do four wheel drive. Trucks were exempt in 1976 from emissions controls so not even a cat convert or a smog pump.
But it had a factory V8 engine and a three inch lift kit. It was basically a V8 engine tied to a frame with oversized tires and 4 wheel drive.
I would take off against Vettes Camaros off the line and the torgue and 4 wheel drive it would pin you hard no spinning wheels just all four tires taking off. Sometimes I would be 20 feet ahead before Vette even took off line. Straight to 60 in a full pin mode.
Grab a '79-84 Ford Fairmont, and toss in any performance ford drivetrain = instant sleeper
Though not a sleeper by any means, but still a good story. I was at a drag strip in the late 70's. " Dyno " Don Nicholson was there with his new Ford Fairmont. He was making some tuning runs. This thing seemed to have so much power he was having a hard time keeping it straight. Seeing him in the pits, the car was so new, I have some picks of him putting the decals on the car you see here in the picture.
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......Yes, she scares me sometimes...heavy foot, one reason we won't be getting the Cadillac CTS-V that she keeps talkin' about
