2014 Throwback: The Sleeper Chevy W/T From LS Fest


2014 Throwback: The Sleeper Chevy W/T From LS Fest

I had forgotten about this ragged-out Chevy 1500 W/T from LS Fest this summer. Peeling paint, bashed-in bed, forgettable aftermarket wheels and no exhaust note to speak of, it looked like just about any other used and abused C/K truck that lives around Bowling Green. I was up in the tower cooling off and watching Lohnes do his thing in the tower when we first saw it pull up to the line. I made two guesses on what the driver was doing: either he was hoping to win the bracket game with a consistent 15-second truck, or that he maybe had stuck a blower on the 350 the truck came with. Either way, I wasn’t expecting much out of it. A few seconds later, and it was clear that we had a new favorite vehicle at the track. It’s not blisteringly fast, but high-11s out of a truck that looks like it spends Monday through Friday hauling animal feed around makes for some hilarious hijinks when some brat with a Camaro wants to run his mouth on the street, and the W/T kept getting faster all weekend. With the toolboxes in the bed and the missing paint, who would’ve guessed? We certainly didn’t.


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3 thoughts on “2014 Throwback: The Sleeper Chevy W/T From LS Fest

  1. Nick D.

    I saw this at LSFest 2011 and thought the same thing, that the guy was just trying to win the bracket racing game. Pretty surprising. I bet the tool boxes act as nice ballast. The guy has had a ton of different engine combos in this truck too

  2. Matt Cramer

    Late model beater trucks are a great formula for a sleeper. Sure, everyone knows they can be modified, but they disappear in a sea of stock examples that are just beater trucks. And towing your supposedly main project with it is a great way to add to the disguise.

  3. anonamous

    “or that he maybe had stuck a blower on the 350 the truck came with.” That is a W/T model so it probably would have come factory with the 4.3L V6.

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