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An original 1964 Cheetah on track at the 2016 Goodwood Festival of Speed. 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. [1] Bill Thomas.
1964 Cheetah GT V8. Bill Thomas had one goal in mind when he designed and produced the Cheetah: beat the Ford Cobra. With Chevrolet backing the company, 25 fine examples were produced until sadly, the factory burnt down. After the blaze, chevrolet pulled out of the project.
23 lut 2016 · Seen here at Riverside in the spring of 1964, the Chevy-powered Cheetah was created for Grand Touring-class road racing competition — and beat the Cobras at their own game! (Photo courtesy Gary Smith) In 1962 and 1963, the plan was for the 1,800-pound Corvette Gran Sport to take on, and beat, Carroll Shelby’s Anglo-American hot rod on road courses.
14 kwi 2014 · That car was the Cheetah, created by Bill Thomas, in the wake of the in-house work by Chevrolet Engineering to make a Cobra-killing Vette, namely the Corvette Grand Sport, a factory Vette Rod...
10 kwi 2018 · Referred to as the Budd Clusserath car, the Cheetah featured here wearing the competition number 64 is widely regarded as the most complete and original example extant. It has been inspected...
1 sie 2013 · You’re looking at it; the Bill Thomas Cheetah, a Chevy-backed GT racing program designed to be a Cobra killer. In the early ’60s Bill Thomas caught Chevrolet executives’ attention by building some very quick Corvairs, Chevy IIs and Corvettes.
2 wrz 2022 · 1964 Chevy Cheetah - gmauthority.com The following eight documented Cheetah builds stuck with a fiberglass body over a TIG-welded chrome-moly tube frame. Between 1964 and 1965, these cars were raced with quite a bit of success, including 11 regional event wins and strong showings in the US Road Racing Championship and Federation Internatinoale ...
