This one is said to have been built in 2003 from a Shell Valley kit and is clear-titled, amazingly enough, as a 1964. In place of the real Cheetah's 327, this replica rocks a 350 SBC. That looks ...

This 1964 Bill Thomas Cheetah Prototype, ... The car was utilized at the test site from December 1963 until April 1964 before it went on to have a brief racing career.

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 dictated homologation minimum was to be 1,000 cars. ... The Cheetah has some racing history, as it competed at various tracks including Riverside.

But rule changes for 1964 meant the factory-backed Cheetah project was officially dead by May that year, with Thomas keeping his business open until 1966. 1964 Chevrolet Cheetah Prototype #003 ...

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 remarkable ...

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, ...

As Don Francisco wrote in the March 1964 issue of our future-brother-in-law-book, Hot Rod magazine, "Cheetah is a combination of proven Chevrolet powertrain components with a special frame, front ...

The Cheetah sports car had most of the ingredients for racing dominance in the early 1960s: an incredible power-to-weight ratio, four-wheel independent suspension borrowed from the Corvette, a ...

As much as we love the aforementioned Cobra – which is to say a whole heck of a lot – allow us to go on record as saying that the Don Edmunds-designed, Bill Thomas-marketed 1964 Cheetah is one ...

Because of the respect surrounding its name, dozens of tuning companies have had their crack at creating a Corvette-based sports car or supercar with their own, special flair. Some of the most famous ...