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| Thmas Cheetah, Magny Cours Classic Days 2014 |
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Bill Thomas Race Cars, Anaheim, USA. Bill Thomas developed the Cheetah with GM funding as a competitor to the Ford Shelby Cobras. They had Thomas tuned Chevrolet 327 V8 engines that were very powerful. It was a project that lasted from 1963 to 1966. Around 10 to 20 were built originally in period but many replicas have been built since. The first cars were made with aluminium bodies but this was quickly replaced with fibre glass. The project ended after homologation rules were changed. In any case the Cheetah had a few handling and overheating issues that effected its race performance. Ralph Salyer won eleven minor events in the USA in a Cheetah but it never really became a Cobra beater. Another was used in drag racing in the USA.
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