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The Cheetah is back
Bill Thomas’ Chevrolet-powered, Cobra-hunting Cheetah is being brought back into production. Get on the list today. photo courtesy Cheetahracecars.net No, not the feline capable of 80 mph, but rather...
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A sneak peek at a born-again Chevrolet racing legend
The fabled Cheetah lives! See it for yourself January 17-20 at Bill Thomas Manufacturing in Tempe, Arizona photo courtesy BTM Among the Chevrolet faithful, tales of the mysterious Cobra-hunting...
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Cheetah again joins ranks of the deceased
Image courtesy Cheetah Continuation Collectible The Cheetah holds an unusual distinction in the history of American race cars – its infamy comes more from what it could have been than what it actually...
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Once-lost Super Cheetah prototype, discovered in garage after 40 years, now...
Photos courtesy Bob Auxier, except where noted. Bill Thomas’s Cheetah may very well have become a legend on par with Carroll Shelby’s Cobra if it hadn’t been for a number of factors, a shop fire and a...
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15 ways not to meet yourself coming the other way
In all our print publications, and this blog, we keep some serious editorial distance from the advertising side of the business. But Hemmings is fundamentally car classifieds, and with all those old...
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Bill Thomas’s Cheetah turns 50, so Road America throws a party
Original team mechanic Larry Webb driving the Alan Green Chevrolet Cheetah. Photo courtesy of CheetahCars.com. In 1964, Chevrolet was officially out of racing, thanks to a General Motors ban on...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1964 Cheetah
We’ve seen this narrative before. Car goes racing back in the day, car gets replicated quite a bit for road and race use, original examples of car thus become more prestigious and more valuable. Only...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1964 Cheetah
It figures that if Bill Thomas were to build a big-block-powered Cheetah—as if the Cheetah needed anything more than its fuel-injected small-block Chevrolet V-8—he’d go with an L88 aluminum 427. As we...
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Reunited with original body, the Alan Green Chevrolet Cheetah heads to auction
Photo courtesy Bonhams. When Fred Yeakel first bought his Bill Thomas-built Cheetah, it sported not just its original body and chassis, but also a relatively recent restoration. So, of course, he...
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