The volvo V70R, taurus SHO and a few others. Have always loved sleepers, especially sleeper wagons! My future project plan(dream) is to build an LSx powered V70 wagon.

 

A Volvette? That'd be nice.

Stock Sleepers? The Omni GLH-S.

The Galant VR4 was a good one, as was the Legacy Turbo. Both looked like a car a secretary would drive, and both were pretty neat.

Those days are over, unfortunately.

 

Anything sr20 powered.

 

My dad's old ford taurus, thing was pretty fast when it needed to be.

 

Mazda 323 GTX....AWD turbo pocket rocket for sure!

 

These were the ancestors of the Mazdaspeed3.

 

My stepmom's Volvo XC-70 hauls ass in a straight line, with a nearly flat torque curve from 1500-4500RPM (TD-04 turbo like the FXT). Corners like a whale, but it's kinda fun to roll on the throttle at a stoplight and watch some kid in a mustang go "really! ". The inline 5 sounds kinda like a raped cat though.

My mother's 1995 Suburban with a modified SBC (making 450rwtq) is also a hoot. It has a full 3" exhaust that is silenced by a big 3" van muffler. Stock quiet. No exterior mods.

Neither of my or my dad's cars are sleepers. :lol: Heck, mine's slower than most quieter cars out there.

 

i would always shock people with the pickup and handling of this car
too bad it broke lol but i love my foz even more than the coop

 

Get in, Sit down, Shut up and Hang on, lol.

If you ordered the right factory options, you had a car that was quicker in the quarter mile than anything else including all but the fastest Porche, Ferrari, Lamborghini and so on, even those manufactured much later and just looking at it put you to sleep, not to mention the fact that it was uglier than the back side of even the worst looking dog, lol.

Dodge was serious about racing and with their own factory race cars set several records throughout the year including a new Top Stock Eliminator record of 12.03 @ 118.42mph. While the dodge cars where less then pretty, they were extreme performers with the right performance options ordered from dodge.

 

^^ thats great

 

2006 Pontiac GTO Coupe - Yahoo! Autos

 

How is that a sleeper?

 

Nothing beats a station wagon as a sleeper but I don't know of anything faster from the factory than the T-Bolts and Polaras.

The Thunderbolt on the Comet Chassis was Ford's answer to the Dodge and they competed head to head on the strip for the manufacturer's championship but the T-Bolt was a hair slower from the factory in the quarter mile and not nearly as ugly, lol.

Here's some video of the T-Bolt and the Polaris competing head to head at about 2:40 in the video.

 

I'll never forget the first time I got passed by a Dodge Omni Turbo. There was a guy in my town that used to drive a black one and if I remember correctly he was running 12's in the 1/4 and it was dead quiet. The first time I saw it I almost laughed because it looked like it had the stock 1/2in exhaust but this thing was damn quick which made it even funnier

Fast Dodge Omnis 1/4 Mile 0-60 Drag Racing - DragTimes.com

 

Just about anything from HPA Motorsports... but more specifically their One-Lap of America car: HPA Motorsports Inc. - One Lap of America 2008

 

http://www.turbominivan.com/

 

TurboMinivan.com

Hahah was just going to post that. Actually our ~2001 chrysler town and country was pretty awesome. IIRC it had the 3.8 or 3.9 thats similar to the one in new wranglers, and had huge amounts of torque for a minivan. Would spin all 4 tires off the line and get up to around 110 before it just got too boat like to be safe.

Yes those Volvos are beasts. I was looking for an 850R or Turbo, found one but they're too expensive and they are riddled with electronic and other problems, decided to stay Japanese.

My dream is to basically gut the electronics, throw in the a LSx of some sort, cage it, and possibly solid axle in the rear. Would basically be a modern day hot/rat rod. However I haven't found anyone who has done it, and I'm not sure how easy it will be to fit the engine in (or how much fab would be needed), probably never going to happen unfortunately. However I'd still love to have a V70R in my garage one day (either the RWD or AWD version), I'll never be able to get away from boxy wagons.

 

I knew a guy in the late 80's who put a 2.8 V6 in a Chevette. That friggin' thing would move!

 

I have a 2001 V6 Chevy Malibu which has some nice pickup, especially between 30 to 60+ mph

But the best I remember was my fathers 1983 oldsmobile custom cruiser station wagon with a 307 V8 I remember us beating some kid with his gf off the line in some little sports car, his gf was so embarassed

 

Here comes the Geo, lol.

 

Here comes the Geo, lol.

YouTube - 9 second Geo Metro

:icon_eek::icon_eek::icon_biggrin::icon_biggrin::biggrin::biggrin::biggrin:
HAHAHAHAHA

 

Not really a fast sleeper car I guess but way more fun than it looked.
1995 Roadmaster estate wagon with an LT1 5.7 v8. Man that car was fun.

 

i say the 2009 Chevy Equinox Sport. powerful V6 and sport suspension. very little body roll on turns and curves...

 

Galant VR4....although I have to admit I'm kinda' biased :Banane28:

 

Galant VR4....although I have to admit I'm kinda' biased :Banane28:

YouTube - gvr4

do you or did you have a vr4? I did.

 

I remember seeing a Omni GLH in Superstreet I beleive that was running 12's for dirt cheap...I would never look twice at that if it was in the next lane lol

 

Back in the mid-1990's I rented a small Buick of some sort...a stove-bolt plain 4 door something or other. However it had a 3.3 liter SFI motor...that thing would really move. You could burn the front tires right off at a stop light. Not that I flogged the vehicle at all, since I was on a work assignment.:biggrin:

 

Reminds me of a Kia Sadona I rented a while ago. If I turned off the traction control, it would smoke the front tires all the way to redline in first, and then chirp when it shifted to second. It was surprisingly fast. I thought, "does a soccer mom really need all that?"

 

Aren't they the anti-sleeper. Sorta looks fast, but handles like a turd rolling through a corner?

 

Sentra SE-R, 200sx SE-R. The bastards of the SR20 crowd.

 

The Syclone and Typhoon are/were the ultimate sleepers. I'd love to get my hands on one.

 

I have a buddy selling a clean white Typhoon thats fast (11's).:woohoo:

 

Buick regal turbo t. No one notices the hood bulge, and everyone forgets black is not the only color that "grand nationals" come in.

 

Buick regal turbo t

Thats a Grand National. Everyone knows that, except it comes in other colors:biggrin: