Carspotting: The GTR Was The First Knockoff Cheetah

Even before Bill Thomas’s Cheetah factory burned down on September 9, 1965, this young couple was making and drag racing the virtually identical GTR prototype. Bill Thomas Race Cars had contracted with Marv and Darlene Eldridge’s Fiberglass Trends to create the first fiberglass Cheetah body for road racing, splashing molds from one of two aluminum prototypes. Thomas promptly switched vendors, and Fiberglass Trends used the rejected molds to create street or strip GTRs offered in any stage from a 120-pound body ($550) with plexiglass windows (add $125) to a rolling chassis. Marv drove this SBC-powered shop car to many Modified Sports trophies and records before graduating to Funny Cars. Later GTRs are identifiable from BTRC Cheetahs by A-pillars added to reinforce windshields at drag-strip speeds.

Date: Spring 1965

Location: Lions Associated Drag Strip, Wilmington, California

Source: Wallace Family Archive

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