Thread: Trying to go for the sleeper look

If you're looking for street races put a badge on it that has nothing to do with the car or a cheap, autozone turbo badge on it. But the first thing I look at are the tires. If you're running on cheap ass rubber, you've got nothing under the hood.

Nobody slaps on walmart tires if they're looking to get down. At least nobody that has money under the hood.

Steelies or stockers and some good tires. I'd think you're suspect if I saw good tires, but others probably won't be. They look slow stock (as said before) so stick with the stock look. If you're looking to egg on ricers, put obnoxious badges on it. Or just do it right, keep it looking stock and knock em off at the track.

Beautiful! Then keep it as stock looking as possible, and you got yourself a sleeper already. (once you put in about 10 grand and some overnight parts from Japan)

Sorry, Fast and Furious reference. Didn't realize you just joined.

Let me ask you.. is this a fast looking car, or would you not pay attention to it?


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Originally Posted by camopaint0707

So I have another thread on my engine build stuff. Finally did pick up the car btw. I'm gonna spend the winter tuning some tune up work on the car before I build it in the summer. But I want to make the outside look as SLOW as possible. Almost to the point of ricing out the car a little bit. Few things I've been kicking around are rebadging as a Grand AM, some fake vents, maybe some of those special edition or turbo or luxury decals from Pep Boys. I don't wanna blow tons of money on this but just something to make it look slower. Open to ideas. Thanks.

That's not a sleeper that's ricetastic and will look like ****. It doesn't matter how ****ty or "awesome" you make your car look. It's not like people are going to hunt you down to try and race you. It's a Grand Prix for God sakes. I guarantee you will have to provoke the majority of races.

Originally Posted by KeithGTP03

Nobody slaps on walmart tires if they're looking to get down. At least nobody that has money under the hood.

I'm running walmart tires but I don't have much money under the hood so I guess your point is still valid.

Sleeper

Mudflaps
Dents
Dirt
Stock car otherwise

However..if you are looking for races, you'll want a clean car that sounds healthy. And don't underestimate the need to provoke things. The only race I picked up w/o provocation was a silly Honda. That guy told his buddies and from then on, they avoided the granny car like it was diseased.

Originally Posted by SlowNA06

Throw a couple knees and elbows into the panels and sand off some of the paint. Break a tail light and put some red tape over it. Remove a window and replace it with garbage bag. Stop washing it. Remove the driver side rear spring entirely. Put the donut on. Take the spoiler off. Put tiny little flappy flagpoles on the roof. Get a "Retired & Sexy" front plate. Wood grain steering wheel cover. Turn up the stereo and play nothing but Aqua and Vengaboys. Honor Student bumper sticker. Get one about how smart your shih tzu or pug is, too. Track down some whitewall tires.

Do all this except removing the spring. And just throw all steelies on it and have two mismatched hubcaps on the front and make sure you break the hubcaps. Then throw on a mismatched colored SE bumper and either sand off paint or just paint random spots of primer on the car and spray bomb the spoiler with some almost matching paint. Making your car look like shiz is easy....making it nice again to sell it is difficult.

Am the only one that finds it strange that you want to rice out a perfectly fine car and that your comfortable driving something like that?

^ yum 5 spd, turbod end on bags

Originally Posted by spazzz

maybe not quite as low, but Dudes got the plain look DOWN for a rocket ship

it looks nothing like that when it wasn't winter. front lip, SD hood, big ass 18s and tires.

it's a bit odd that you want to make it look stupid on purpose.