All three of these examples strictly adhere to the sleeper ethos, even down to slightly faded beige paint and steel wheels.

I remember seeing the title and getting excited, explaining to my wife what a sleeper was as the trailer proceeds to show... not what I was describing and then I immediately lost interest.

Some time ago, British Rail decided to scrap all of it’s old steam engines. Many of them ended up in Wales, a place called Barry Island, I remember seeing them on the way to a shipyard with my dad. Seeing the plight of many of these engines, and with the infamous cutting of lines made by Mr. Beeching, rail enthusiasts…

Indeed.

Sounds like the 2000s era Town Car I saw yesterday at Cars and Coffee, but it had a Coyote 5.0 under the hood.  Don’t know if it had any other go-fast parts, but it had to be surprisingly fast.  Unfortunately, it was painted flat black, so not as sleeper as it could be.

Netflix car shows have been such a disappointment. Every show is about 70 to 80 percent backstory reality TV bullshit like they’re trying to convince my wife to watch the show.

Yeah I tried watching it and just couldn’t get into it. “Hey here’s a douchebag with a ton of money and an exotic, and here’s a poor kid who lost his legs in a tragic skateboarding accident who built this car in an abandoned warehouse while fending off gangs of wild ferrets, please feel sorry for him.”

THIS. 

I watched a few episodes, and yeah... that show is trash. I don’t even mind the cars, because some of them, you *could* drive on the road in some very emissions friendly states. But the Sleeper *drivers*... ugh. Every single one of the were complete douche-bags. Like the guy who refused to open his hood for anyone…

The most annoying part of that show, beyond not knowing what a “sleeper” is but using the term constantly, is that it is actually very close to being good and that makes it worse. Story of plucky outsiders working on a big build to take on a factory fresh supercar? Really interesting! And yet they can’t quite get…

Fastest Car is terrible, agreed.

That’s weird. It’s almost like just-in-time delivery over thousands and thousands of miles of ocean has some critical flaw.

Totally agreed. Nobody in their right mind would scrap a 4 yr old truck with an MSRP of at least $40K. And in today’s used market, I’m willing to bet one of these would sell for almost the same money if fully sorted.

Any truck under $20k in Canada is 10 years old and beat to hell. I would not want to be shopping right now.

Tommy Chong & Snoop Dogg combined have never been baked enough to consider this purchase a good idea.

The dude was BAKED when he bought the thing in the first place.

<and also seems to have trouble spelling things (Harman Cardin?).>

They’re smoking something, tooooo. When I smoke weed I’d rather buy $100,000 of bacon cheeseburgers