I remember when the sleeper first started to become popular, and always wanted something fast and fun and simple that fit the sleeper bill. Seeing cars like this in the pages of Hot Rod, Car Craft, and Popular Hot Rodding got me fired up for something evil that looked like a stocker from afar. I even built my 1969 Camaro Convertible with big and little rally wheels so that it would have the look. The nasty cam in the small block made it hard to convince some folks, but the iron headed small block with and iron intake and QuadraJet certainly helped. It would be be 20 more years before I had a sleeper that was actually fitting of the name, but they sure are cool.

I’ve got plans for another one of my cars to carry on the sleeper legacy this year, but when I saw this 1971 Nova it made me smile. I mean look at this thing! Slapper bars, steelies, flat hood and more. Wow. Check out the full feature video below and let us know what you think of this beast.

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I’ve wanted to build something like this car for a long time but I just never had the chance. I recently found out that someone I know wanted to put this up for sale. I had to immediately go check it out!