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 .

Feb 23, 2016 · Born in an era when home-brewed “specials” made from scrounged frames and chassis hardware, hand-fashioned bodies, potent engines — and little else — were dominant in the Modified classes at SCCA-sanctioned road courses across the U.S.A., Cheetah was more than another special.

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...

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Apr 7, 2022 · The Bill Thomas Cheetah was conceived, designed, and built to be a Chevy-powered Cobra killer. Brutally fast and light, it could have been King of the Hill.

Aug 24, 2023 · One Fast Cat: Cheetah With A 454 V8 The original Bill Thomas-designed Cheetah was a monstrous straight-line car, using a Chevy-sourced V8 power to hustle the seriously compact sports car around popular road courses of the era.

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.

Jan 13, 2010 · One legendary Chevy-powered road racer started out like many of those "specials," but by the time the first one rolled out of its creator's garage, it was the '60s-a time when "backdoor"...

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.