The heart of the diminutive beast was a fuel-injected 327-cubic-inch Chevrolet V-8 mated to an aluminum Corvette four-speed. Due to the Cheetah’s compact dimensions and the rearward mounting of ...

which created the Chevy-powered Cheetah to go up against the Cobra. The last Cheetah prototype, chassis #003, is up for sale now with an asking price of $795,000. Welcome to You Must Buy ...

The Chevy-powered, 1964 Bill Thomas Cheetah was conceived, designed, and built with a single purpose in mind: beat Carroll Shelby’s Cobras. Unfortunately, homologation rules changes and an ...

The Cheetah was a Chevy-powered race car that could have been a true competitor for the Cobra, had it not been handicapped right int the middle of its development First built in California by Bill ...

Thomas sorely needed backing from GM to evolve the Cheetah into a proper racecar. For a short time, Bill Thomas Manu-facturing received assistance from Chevrolet. After the first two aluminum ...

The Cheetah was conceived and built by Thomas and his fabricator, Don Edmunds. It was powered by a Rochester fuel-injected 327 Chevy Small Block, with a short wheelbase and the engine located so ...

Still, Thomas didn't give up and began developing a thoroughly improved, long-tail version called Super Cheetah. Unfortunately, Chevrolet temporarily withdrew its support for factory-backed ...

a Corvette racer named Bill Thomas used his GM connections in 1963 to construct a Cobra-killer with secret backing from the high-test engineers at Chevy. Dubbed the Cheetah, Thomas' goal was to ...

a car engine powers Cheetah’s chopper three-wheeler. With four, six and eight cylinder Chevrolet powerplants available, aluminum as well as stainless steel construction maintains an enduring shape of ...

However, one such special edition Chevrolet Corvette stands out among the rest, for a few key reasons. The model in question ...