Sleeper

This word keeps cropping up for me and I don't know what it is....

Please educate me someone

 

It's basically a car that doesn't look anything special on the outside but has the power and performance to embarass alot more expensive and newer cars etc

 

i thought it was a large piece of wood that sits under railway lines.

 

what dan said

like having a standard 2.0 diesel sierra estate on the outside but a stage 3 cossie lump on the inside

 

Thank you now

 

Well you aint wrong are ya!

 

no.....they are called sleepers.....

so i'm right.

 

Mate it's like that Fiesta in your sig on the right hand side being a Cossie 4x4 but looking like that

 

my sleeper, usually get the another boy racer cabriolet with a cossie kit look,untill i pass them

 

Now you've confused me! I didn't say you wasn't!

 

 

Lush!

 

pmsl, sorry Dan, read your reply wrong.


so you are right.

 

and your not wrong!

 

sounds like a chalenge to me

 

Awesome! Thats deffo a sleeper, but in a different way

Like the Reyland Mondeo too.

Looks flash, but still NEVER think it was as fast as it is!

Ive always wanted to build a sleeper, still havent tho, yet...

 

Is mines a sleeper??

 

Snap! I have one of these aswell.
Just putting a cossie banana pod in it.

 

yup but them brown tanks look fucking awefull

for fucks sake ..change them ...

 

What transmission are you using? Thats a bit special

 

Heres mine, only pic i have on the computer.



Steve.

 

Just to answer the topic title question, the reason why we refer to some high performance cars as "sleepers" may be because the term "sleeper" was used in the cold war era (60's/70's and early 80's) to describe a spy or agent who would blend in amongst the population and not be noticed. He or she would live a normal life with an assumed name or identity.

Sorry - nerd alert

 

no sleepers on this thread ffs

 

Heres one

 

Sned-boy: yours would be a sleeper if the outside looked Ford factory style. As it is modified, then NO, it is not a sleeper. Yours is more of a "surpriser". (Just made that name up btw... )
Cool conversion tho.

The van is a sleeper..but the wheels give it away a little...

Another sleeper, first few pics been around for years:






Currently getting lightweight panels and windows fitted...



the fibre glass panels

the polly carbon windows

the swedish plenum with wrc 8 inj set up

 

That mk 3 is a propper sleeper i've got a sierra estate with roof bars and even a tow bar. running hopefull 300bhp YB we'll fine out tomorrow at rooling road.

 

the mk3 has all the sleeper propertys as in steel wheels , tho bigger than standard dont give the game away, and the 70/80s AA badge is the iceing and the sleepers cake

 

This was my mates he built.. Not a Ford but still funny as hell to see it rip up the road..was running about 300bhp.. on std brakes nutter..

 

good fun then. I like this sleeper malarky

 

Now that's a sleeper!!

The black Fez further up is not a sleeper!!

 

i think this is a good sleeper

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsjCX...elated&search=

 

 

tho if you were behind it the multi point cage would give the game away a bit

 

Very nice car, BUT not a sleeper IMHO

 

I agree!! proper sleeper!

 

that fiesta vid what would be realy good if a 5 door

 

Standard FRST box m8

 

I used to have 2 mk2 fiesta turbos that look like crap lol but they used to abuse things like Porsche boxters
nice little sleepers