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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 .
The iconic Cheetah race car built by Bill Thomas in the 1960s garnered a huge following for its radical looks, backdoor inception at General Motors and its near arrival as a Cobra killer on America’s race tracks.
Apr 10, 2018 · The Bill Thomas Cheetah was designed as a Corvette-powered Cobra killer, and the cleanest example extant is going to auction.
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Dec 14, 2023 · A California native, Bill Thomas started tuning and prepping race versions of Chevy models during the second half of the 1950s while working for C S Mead Motors Co....
Apr 26, 2018 · Built from 1963 to 1966, the Cheetah wasn’t around long enough to change its spots. Designed by self-taught engineer Bill Thomas, the Chevy-powered Cheetah was created to serve as Chevrolet’s answer to the Ford-powered Cobra that Carroll Shelby introduced in 1962.
Mar 15, 2017 · 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…
Oct 13, 2021 · The last Cheetah to leave the factory was delivered to its owner in April 1966. When Shelby Cobra was winning races left and right, Chevrolet called Bill Thomas. He came up with the Cheetah...
Jan 13, 2010 · GM's upper management squelched Chevy's back-door tech assistance to Bill Thomas' Cheetah program, and his Anaheim, California, shop suffered a fire, trashing his production tooling after...
Mar 20, 2023 · Car Of The Day: 1964 Bill Thomas Cheetah. 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...
6 days ago · With such low production figures, finding any Bill Thomas Cheetah that is ready to go to a new home is an event, and currently there are two available right now on Hemmings. The first is the Hurst Special Competition #58 Cheetah, a 1964 that was recently restored by a noted Cheetah expert.
