Latest Cheetah (and group shot)

[Silver Foxx]

Great build , gotta love the Cheetah shape , a tough looking little brute.

[crazyjim]

HRM wants $175.00 and there's a 2 year wait.

[Danno]

Excellent group of models, excellent!

[DustyMojave]

Cheetahs are very pretty cars. Don Edmunds did an awesome job on the body. But they were never close to being a production automobile like the Cobras were and so could never race in the same class. They were usually beaten by much smaller engined Cobras running in the Production class anyway. As it was they had to race against the mid-engine race cars like Coopers and Chaparrals and never really stood a chance. There wasn't a competitive front engine car racing against the mid-engine sport racers until the 1980s when the Ford Mustang GTP was running. Then again later the Panoz LMP-1. Interestingly, those both used Ford engines.

Mini Exotics used to include directions for building a chassis for the Cheetah body using pieces from the AMT Mercedes 300 SL Gull Wing Coupe kit. It would be great if Revell were to do a Cheetah like their C5R and C6R kits.

Original Cheetah production ceased after a fire burned the Bill Thomas Race Cars shop down including the body molds and chassis jigs. There is a company building new Cheetahs now though with official approval from Bill Thomas Race Cars. So if a model is tough, just buy a full scale one.