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Old 07-26-2007, 12:56 AM
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Default Re: Cheetah continuation race cars

There was a neat one racing at Road America over the weekend. As Bob said, they were at Bloomington, also.
Pretty cool cars that would be terrifying to drive.
Anyone taken one for a drive?
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Old 07-26-2007, 06:25 AM
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This is pretty neat. I spent some time talking to Bill Keck at Bloomington and they are really cool.

A "little birdie" tells me there may be a Very Special version premiering at Chevy Vettefest!

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Bob Auxier, Ron Keck, Ronnie Kaplan, Don Swiatek and the Thomas' will be working on a possible Nickey Edition Cheetah, to be debuted at the upcoming Fall Vette Fest this November 18-19th.

Bill Thomas was commissioned to build a race car which could beat the competition, back in the day, mainly the Shelby Cobras. While Cheetahs were few and far between, they were and are very competitive race cars.

A Continuation Cheetah also took a class second place at the Road America Concourse. While a non descript black driver vehicle took the over all best of best honors. I believe it belongs to a member????
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I met "Cheetah Bob" many years ago in Phoenix and sold him so big block Corvette parts. Big brake parts if I remember correctly. Anyway, he had an original Cheetah that he had all cut up to make molds from and was in the planning stages of repoing the car completely.

I heard a couple of years ago that he finally got tired of sinking money into the venture and gave up on it. Then a couple of guys from Scottsdale wanted to revive the venture and got Bill Thomas involved in it from the standpoint of "endorsing it." It sounded to me like it never really got off the ground that time either. I think I remember seeing some kind of an ad for the cars and I believe that I knew at least one of the guys involved but can't for the life of me remeber the connection.
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------Bob A had one on display at B/J many years ago, and while people were lined up to look at it, I dont think he generated an order that whole week. With what even an outdoor space costs at B/J, I got the feeling that Bob was very disappointed.........Bill S
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Wasn't that '04 or '05? I seem to remember something when the company I work for vended there...
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Old 10-29-2009, 05:59 AM
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-----Yup,,,That might be about the time-frame, Bruce.......Bill S
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This ad is from Sports Car Market that was in my Monterey Historics participant package just this past August ...

http://www.65cheetahccc.com/


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