New York City may have the Taxi of Tomorrow these days, but a new take on the classic Checker cab could soon be on the road. Checker Motor Cars of Haverhill, Mass., is planning to manufacture two ...
Checker produced many Marathon sedans between 1961 and 1982, but reportedly only 200 were fitted with the Perkins diesel engine.
The Checker cab is coming back. Well, at least the brand is. A Massachusetts-based car parts company has secured the rights to use the classic trademark on cars, and it sounds like it’s going to do it ...
Big auto swap builds are not too dissimilar from the 1997 John Travolta and Nicolas Cage classic Face/Off. Both are pretty over the top, don’t hold up well after repeated viewings, and exist best as ...
NEW YORK CITY (WABC) -- The last Checker cab took one final fare on the streets of New York City almost 20 years ago, in July of 1999. But today, about two dozen remain on the road -- where they are ...
Long and bitter has been the battle between the Checker Cab Manufacturing Corp. taxi interests and Yellow Cab Co. In back of Checker has been its founder and president, Morris Markin, Chicago Russian ...
Checker Cab Manufacturing Co.’s first cab rolls off the line in Kalamazoo, Mich., on June 18, 1923. The company was founded by Morris Markin, a Russian immigrant, in 1922 as Checker Cab Manufacturing ...