The Bill Thomas Cheetah was an American sports car designed and engineered entirely with American components, and built from 1963 to 1966 by Chevrolet performance tuner Bill Thomas. It was developed as a competitor to Carroll Shelby 's Cobra .

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May 17, 2013 · In the truest tradition of sport customs, the Cheetah was designed in chalk on the concrete floor by the same two California hot rodders who handbuilt between 16 and 26 complete copies (accounts...

Apr 10, 2018 · Of them, the Cheetah, a.k.a. Bill Thomas’s Cheetah, endures as one of the most enigmatic. With only 11 first-generation examples built and fewer surviving, spotting one in the wild is...

Oct 4, 2012 · This restyled Cheetah was going to become the 427 Super Cheetah. Robert's mission is to complete the car as Bill Thomas would have in 1964. Then he plans to go one step further.

Aug 24, 2023 · The seller tells us that this Cheetah is currently fitted with a de-stroked 350 V-8 that now displaces 331 cubic inches. It has lots of period high-performance parts that would not be out of place on an original racer. What do you think about this Cheetah? Is it a deal, or will a buyer be “cheeted”?

Apr 26, 2018 · With a fully independent front suspension and compact fiberglass frame, the 1,510-pound Cheetah was clocked unofficially at 215 miles per hour at Daytona during performance benchmarking, a speed that blew away the original Cobra’s top mark of about 135 MPH.

Dec 20, 2024 · Today’s find combines all three of these qualities because it’s one of eleven of the famed Bill Thomas Cheetah racecars from the early 1960s. The Cheetah was a clandestine Chevy project built to take on Shelby ’s AC Cobra and done under the …

Jan 5, 2017 · In a showdown with even the most highly tuned Ford Cobra, the Cheetah’s superior power-to-weight ratio was sure to see its quartet of Corvette taillights fade into the distance. Today, this historical machine retains its original 1964 chromoly frame, fiberglass body, fiberglass and aluminum interior panels and the same IT-code L88 crate ...

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