Bill Thomas Cheetah - Wikipedia
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 .
Cheetah: The Legendary, Hardcore, Chevy-Powered Racer
2016年2月23日 · 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.
Cobra Killer! A History of Bill Thomas’s Wild Cheetah - Car and Driver
2018年4月10日 · 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...
Spotted – 1964 Bill Thomas Cheetah Racecar - Carsforsale.com
2024年12月20日 · The Cheetah was a clandestine Chevy project built to take on Shelby’s AC Cobra and done under the shadow of the AMA racing ban. The brief but electrifying competitive run for the Cheetah has become the stuff of automotive legend today.
Bill Thomas Cheetah - The Cheetah Legend, Continued - MotorTrend
2010年1月13日 · 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"...
The Bill Thomas Cheetah: Chevy Legend - Carsforsale.com®
2022年9月2日 · In the annals of American sports-car-racing, the Bill Thomas Cheetah stands out thanks to radical design and serious Chevy power. It’s hard to overstate how crazy the car culture of Southern California was in the 1960s.
The Wild and Wonderful Bill Thomas Cheetah - Chevy Hardcore
2017年3月15日 · The #006 competition Cheetah, built in 1964 at Bill Thomas Race Cars in Anaheim, CA. Going across the block at Barrett-Jackson, but not netting it’s reserve, this Cheetah is only one of 15 of these bizarre conceptual cars known to remain in the world — not that there were many to begin with…
The Cheetah Was the Grooviest Cobra-Killer to Come Out of the …
2018年4月26日 · 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 …
Bill Thomas Cheetah: The Forgotten Cobra Rival Commissioned By Chevrolet
2021年10月13日 · Depending on the trim, the Cheetah was known to be powered by a few different Chevrolet engines. Most notable were the 327 cu in (5,358 cc) Small-Block V-8 from the C2 Corvette, while the...
Bill Thomas Cheetah: The Forgotten Chevy-Based Shelby Cobra …
2023年12月14日 · Shelby wasn't the only self-taught American engineer who wanted to create a memorable American performance car with a Chevy V8 heart. By the early 1960s, he founded Bill Thomas Race Cars and...