Full throttle in 1965 Bill Thomas Cheetah with Casey Putsch of Putsch Racing
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@MrMakemyday310 жыл бұрын
bill Thomas racing built about 16 of them for chevy in 63, the shop burned down and never reopened. the cars were so short they didn't have a driveshaft, the motor hooked right to the rear end
@Cemi_Mhikku7 жыл бұрын
It's technically a front/mid configuration, and one of the only examples of such I've heard of.
@BuzzLOLOL5 жыл бұрын
@@Cemi_Mhikku - All Corvettes that way since about 1968... as are the Cobras...
@gearbanger572 жыл бұрын
The transmission was hooked to the rear end via a u joint.
@kevinerbs27782 жыл бұрын
It's classified a mid a engine rear wheel drive car. The seat is just at the rear or the car giving the impression of a front engine rear wheel drive. If you look closly the engine is more than 2 feet back feom the front of the car.
@iunnox6665 ай бұрын
@Cemi_Mhikku The SLR and SLS Mercedes are front mid as well. The Panoz Esperante GTR is a great one too.
@tomoday44502 жыл бұрын
Such a beautiful sound 👍🏻
@gregghatfield99462 жыл бұрын
Sound so pretty thanks for the ride
@Dawsons892 жыл бұрын
Hell yeah! That’s one beautiful machine!
@MrWolfSnack5 ай бұрын
there is a reason videos like this are so rare and so old. there is a shortage of balls required to do this today. lol
@63grandsport117 жыл бұрын
Air flowing over the uncovered Webers was sucking raw fuel out the stacks
@CplCheeto10 ай бұрын
actually the cheetahs were electric fuel injected. those are not webers but itb's. what you are seeing is the heat shimmer from the air being pulled from around the engine and being sucked into the throttle bodies. these cars used a 327 from the late 50's early 60's corvette race cars which were the test beds for GM to test the reliability of the new electric fuel injection system (ramjet) during racing applications as mechanical fuel injection didn't work as gm intended during their Corvette debut in the 24 hours of le mans in the early 50's and went against in the late 50's with fuel injection.
@ScottieJDPM11 жыл бұрын
That is Awesome!
@reubenmossley27872 жыл бұрын
If you like it. You might also like "allard hill climb", on YT. Allard built a car, then asked cadillac to put engines in them.
@Bearditwas4 жыл бұрын
So much want for ITBs
@allagatoral383921 күн бұрын
was that a little valve-floating left second from the front I clearly saw some of the intake gasses??? may have just been cold???
@robertowarren70072 жыл бұрын
BEAST...
@Kayobear195 ай бұрын
My 1st & last ride in a Cheetah 😂
@BLECHHAUS3 жыл бұрын
It is worth driving this car just because of the fuel mist over the greedily sucking air funnels :-)
@mdemers7672 жыл бұрын
I don't think that's fuel, I think the engine is sucking air in so hard the vacuum it's creating is causing temporary condensation to appear as the drop in air pressure slips below the dew point for a split second. Or I could be wrong. I'm just guessing. But I think the fuel is introduced much further down those velocity stacks. I doubt it has the pressure to overcome the incoming air velocity.
@carmudgeon74782 жыл бұрын
I've seen 5000 rpm and up reversion on those 48 Webers on everything from small blocks to slant sixes.
@SportingDrivesinColorado6 ай бұрын
It's my turn!
@MrTomjolly5 ай бұрын
Full Throttle?
@mdemers7672 жыл бұрын
Now rip some donuts in that parking lot!
@rogerballog94706 жыл бұрын
What kinda induction? Is it Webber's or Lucas or Hillborn FI?
@63grandsport115 жыл бұрын
Mechanical 48 IDA Webers.
@BorisBidjanSaberi11 Жыл бұрын
Merica
@evilzarmy12 жыл бұрын
Special built to beat the Cobra, but like most Chevy endeavors, was doomed to fail
@maitreyoda74042 жыл бұрын
If only their shop wouldn’t have burned and the production cap wouldn’t have changed to 1000, they would have beat the sh*t out of Cobras .
@terryfrye4552 Жыл бұрын
Chevy didn't really have a choice onces the shop building them burned and they changed the racing rules to 1000 Instead of 100 so chevy had to pull the plug since they didn't have the ability to make that many at that time. If they didn't change the rules I bet chevy would have been doing great with them
@ONTHEEDGEFRED4 ай бұрын
@@maitreyoda7404 Not so sure about that but I would have loved to have watched the race
@peterredman2356 ай бұрын
When will people learn that a video taken from inside a car, or aircraft gives no idea of speed or anything else . It's just bloody boring!
@darianballard20742 жыл бұрын
My Fiero is faster. 😁
@rodshop58972 жыл бұрын
Yeah, so is my old Saturn. ;-]
@darianballard20742 жыл бұрын
@@rodshop5897 What did you do to an old Saturn to make it fast? I could be wrong but most of those where dogs for power and I didn't think many people did engine swaps. You have me very curious.
@darianballard20742 жыл бұрын
@@rodshop5897 My Fiero has a 5.7 v8 with 600HP and 500 FT LBS 12.4 to 1 compression and only runs on race fuel of 113 octane and up.
@rodshop58972 жыл бұрын
@@darianballard2074 I just think fast. Sorry, I thought we were joking around here.
@TotalMishap10 жыл бұрын
I hate replicas. Stupid kit cars.
@MrMakemyday37 жыл бұрын
not a replica so go hate something else
@iannamico2 жыл бұрын
prius driver
@dentonthomas56222 жыл бұрын
Some kit cars are cool man. My dream car when I was a kid was a sterling nova. Didn't know it was a bug. But man... they even had one on the movie cannonball run. They are very hard to find now. But I would still like to buy a nice example and build the engine. I would drive it buy the school as it was letting out and busses are hitting the road and watch the kids go crazy over it. Ahhhhhh yes. Sweet dreams are made of these.
@maitreyoda74042 жыл бұрын
Ahh yes… You know that a Bugatti type 51 replica only cost a fraction from what the actual real deal cost ? And it’s the exact same car as the real one, if I had the money to buy both I’d go for the replica without a doubt, I can race it, drive it like I stole it and if I crash it, I can easily sent it back to the shop for repairs . So between 200k and 10millions what would you chose ? It’s a no brainer unless you just want to let it sit in a garage taking dust .