GM supported the Cheetah as an unofficial program until the middle of 1964 when a change in the homologation rules for racing demanded an unachievable increase in production numbers. After GM ...

The mighty V-8 provided the Cheetah with 360 horsepower ... the test site from December 1963 until April 1964 before it went on to have a brief racing career. This Hemmings listing marks the ...

The 1964 Cheetah race car is one of 15 known to have survived and it is the only one to have been raced with a Corvette 427 cubic-inch L88 big block V8 engine. It also has the aluminum racing head ...

In 1964, the C-Sports/-Modified class rules ... Motors as a development car for Chevrolet Engineering. The Cheetah has some racing history, as it competed at various tracks including Riverside.

Even against the more serious racing specials, however, the Cheetah managed to win 11 major races in 1964 alone and claimed numerous local- and minor-event victories all over the country over ...

A 1964 Cheetah prototype once owned by a General Motors president is listed for sale on Hemmings. The Cheetah was created by Bill Thomas, who, after success tuning and racing Corvettes ...

Because Cheetahs weren't originally designed to go racing, these experimental ... But rule changes for 1964 meant the factory-backed Cheetah project was officially dead by May that year, with ...

The Cheetah sports car had most of the ingredients for racing dominance in the early 1960s ... in the sports/modified class by the end of the 1964 season. They could run a quarter-mile in 10 ...

Bill Thomas-marketed 1964 Cheetah is one of the most beautiful shapes in the history of American automotive racing. See for yourself in the high-res photo gallery below. Unfortunately, a fire at ...

If all goes well, you'll be seeing continuation Cheetahs racing in vintage events ... the price for a continuation Cheetah? They are quite a bit more than the 1964-vintage prices quoted above ...

Even against the more serious racing specials, however, the Cheetah managed to win 11 major races in 1964 alone and claimed numerous local- and minor-event victories all over the country over ...