Cheetah Cars was a New Zealand kit-car manufacturer that developed a retro-styled sports car based on the Jaguar E-Type Series 1 convertible. The project began in 1986 in Auckland, where the founders set out to create a low-cost replica using as much of a single donor vehicle as possible. The design used a fibreglass body over a semi-spaceframe chassis and relied largely on Holden HQ mechanical components, with alternative engines fitted…