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26-10-2006, 09:18 PM
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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 
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26-10-2006, 09:55 PM
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Originally Posted by dave cos4x4
Originally Posted by Dan
Originally Posted by dave cos4x4
no.....they are called sleepers..... 
so i'm right.
so i'm right.
pmsl, sorry Dan, read your reply wrong.
so you are right.
26-10-2006, 09:55 PM
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Originally Posted by DogSmoke
Mate it's like that Fiesta in your sig on the right hand side being a Cossie 4x4 but looking like that
26-10-2006, 10:04 PM
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Originally Posted by thedaddie
my sleeper, usually get the another boy racer cabriolet with a cossie kit look,untill i pass them 
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...
27-10-2006, 01:29 AM
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Originally Posted by thedaddie
my sleeper, usually get the another boy racer cabriolet with a cossie kit look,untill i pass them
Just putting a cossie banana pod in it.
27-10-2006, 06:58 AM
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Originally Posted by dave cos4x4
i thought it was a large piece of wood that sits under railway lines. 
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
27-10-2006, 11:53 AM
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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
) 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
27-10-2006, 12:59 PM
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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
27-10-2006, 01:23 PM
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Originally Posted by rs_daz
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..
nutter..The black Fez further up is not a sleeper!!
27-10-2006, 02:14 PM
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27-10-2006, 02:24 PM
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Originally Posted by thedaddie
my sleeper, usually get the another boy racer cabriolet with a cossie kit look,untill i pass them
27-10-2006, 02:25 PM
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Originally Posted by John Laverick
Originally Posted by rs_daz
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..
nutter..
27-10-2006, 03:17 PM
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Originally Posted by mcrmatt1983
Originally Posted by snedboy
Is mines a sleeper??
What transmission are you using? Thats a bit special
27-10-2006, 03:34 PM
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Originally Posted by steves24V's
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.
Hows it going mate? did you throw all the stage 3 stuff on?
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