Included in the sale of the Cheetah is a 154-page book documenting the car’s full history, showing then-GM President John F. Gordon as the first owner, and all the testing done by Chevy Engineering.

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Among them is the car currently up for sale. Wearing serial number 126364002, it's the second prototype Cheetah, and was ordered by GM for development work, according to Hemmings.

It’s worth noting that the fully restored Cheetah #006 failed to meet the reserve at a high bid of $850,000 at Barrett-Jackson’s Scottsdale auction in 2017 and that the “Alan Green Chevrolet ...

For the Cheetah, GM provided a hot 327 straight off the Corvette production line and a heavy-duty four-speed Muncie gearbox. Bill Thomas Race Cars, led by chief chassis builder Don Edmunds, ...

Thomas sorely needed backing from GM to evolve the Cheetah into a proper racecar. 0:00 / 0:00. For a short time, Bill Thomas Manu-facturing received assistance from Chevrolet.

Initially, Chevrolet invested directly in the Cheetah project, but the automaker pulled out in 1965 as a result of its company-wide ban on motorsports participation.

This quickly, and abruptly, ended the Cheetah project, and GM pulled all support from Bill Thomas Race Cars shortly thereafter. BTRC carried on building Cheetahs for a short time, with the last ...

Ever since the 1950s, Chevrolet experimented with mid-engine setups thanks to the determination of Zora Arkus-Duntov.. Thomas and Edmunds were also proponents of the mid-engine configuration ...

George Pappas' 1967 Pontiac Beaumont Cheetah is GM's Canada-only lovechild that was born of Chevelle SS and GTO parents. Check out this impressive muscle car!