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The Bill Thomas Cheetah was a sports car designed, engineered entirely with American components, and built from 1963 to 1966 by Chevrolet performance tuner Bill Thomas. It was developed as a competitor to Carroll Shelby’s Cobra. The story of the car is here on Wikipedia

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The cars often attract a huge premium at auction, a couple of examples can be found here 1967 Chevrolet Cheetah at Russo & Steele which is actually believed to a 1964 & here Cheetah sold for a world record price