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Old 05-12-08, 08:07   #30 (permalink)
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Re: Low-Budget Sleeper Cars

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Originally Posted by fstb88 View Post
There are only three sleepers in my mind. One would be and early 90s Thunderbird with the SC or the Second Gen Ford Taurus SHO, with a slight mod(sv heads and cams off a SVT Contour) it can pull major power without turbo or superchargers. Little bit of an extensive build but will be very solid. O and the late 80s turbo charged T-Birds
Those aren't sleepers to someone who knows cars though. Sleeper, IMO, are cars that had no performance aspirations stock. That's why the Malibu/Caddy engine combo works so well.

Hot Rod once did an article about a twin turbo'ed 350 stuff into a Rambler. Now that's a sleeper!
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