History Cheetahs Always Win-sort of...

They may not have won a lot of races
but no one ever looked better losing one.

 

Cheetahs Rule.. Im a fan of those..

 

My dad had a Cheetah slot car when I was a kid, always wanted to race that one and he rarely let me until I got older and finally learned to keep the cars on the track. Our track folded down out of the basement wall and going off track meant a 4' drop to tiled concrete floor. I broke more than one of his cars, I'm sad to say. Anyway, I've always been a Cheetah fan because of that slot car.

 

Them cars are a rollin hard on !

 

There's a body and frame on Egay for cheap in WI. Wish I lived closer, somebody's gonna get a sweet deal.

 

Always thought they were cool, too. I must have had a half-dozen of the COX slot car versions. I got to see a continuation car last year at the Roar n Soar show at Fantasy of Flight in Florida. I'm 90 percent sure I'm using this same color on my 27 truck! Later, Gary

 

i had the cox slot car as well, both 1/24 and 1/32 scale.

i recall the body was like building a car model, with all kinds of pieces like morrors etc to glue on.


needless to say most of that stuff was off the first lap around the track. i remember the cool mags that went on with an acorn nut that looked like the center cap. cost like 7 bucks at pennys

certainly they are bueatiful cars

skull

 

The last one I saw was at Monterey Historics in '05. Let's just say I had a shit eating grin on the whole time I looked at that thing.

They have such a SHORT wheelbase, and so much relative power...fun.

I also currently own both a 1/32 and 1/24 Cox slot car Cheetah. Hard to find tracks these days!

 

its only 1295 with 5 hrs to go.

 

cox box!

 

not often you get a cheetah AND a chaparral in the same shot!

 

anybody have any other cool race shots?

 

I had BOTH those slot cars!

 

I lifted this shot from HEMI32's 1964 Portland Roadster Show program. Love the five-spokes and whitewalls.

 

MAN!! If Chevy had backed them like ford and the Cobra!WOW what a duel!

 

Forgive me if this violates board rules... but a few members here have mentioned about a Cheetah slot car. My company makes several versions of the Cheetah slot car in 1/24, with one more coming this year.




Thanks for looking and a cool thread with some great vintage photos! Thanks! BTW, those vintage photos are how I found this great website!
DaveK

 

I have a Bill Thomas continuation body. It's my dream car. It's on the bucket list

Hoping to build and sell a few projects in between in order to fund this one.

 

The Red #92 car is Bob Boyces car.He Passed 33 cars at the Kohler Challenge this year to come in 2nd place. He is Quite the race car driver.

 

Wouldn't this box art make a nice poster? I guess so would a lot of other "classic" or trend-setting box art designs, eh? Gary

 

One of my friends had one and raced it at OCIR for a time in late 1969 early 1970. In parnership with the owner of Fletcher Concrete, Bob Warner, of Bob's Automotive, Santa Ana built one complete with a 427, turbo 400 and a Martinez paint job and Nat Quick lettering..... I helped him piece it together when off duty with the Marine Corps...Ran pretty easy high 10's no matter if Fletcher or Bob were behind the wheel. Pretty car, wish I had taken pics......