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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1981 Checker Marathon
I’m going to bet that this 1981 Checker Marathon never really saw taxi duty over the last 30 years. As Checker enthusiasts have reminded me several times in the past, Checker would essentially build...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1976 Checker Marathon
Of course, the Crown Victoria will some day be fondly recalled and even collected by us old car nuts. How do we know? Easy – compare it to the Checker. Both rode on relatively ancient platforms, both...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1979 Checker Marathon
The rare opportunity with this 1979 Checker Marathon for sale on Hemmings.com isn’t necessarily to obtain an all-original and apparently rust-free civilian Checker, rather to sit down with the car’s...
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Covering just about every service car niche possible: the trio of Checkers at...
1970 Checker MediCar limousine. All photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. While Corvettes and other Chevrolets dominated the recent Mecum auction in Dallas, a trio of unusual automobiles built by the...
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Northeast Classic Car Museum celebrates cars in song with “Car Tunes” exhibit
Cars and music have been indelibly linked for a century, and a new exhibit coming to the Northeast Classic Car Museum in Norwich, New York, illustrates this bond. The year-long exhibit, Car Tunes – A...
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A checkered comeback marks the return of an automotive icon
A Checker cab, no longer in service, spotted in New York in 2012. Photo by Sigmar. Let’s face it, the great, squarish Checker is an American automotive icon, even though none have picked up fares in...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1979 Checker Marathon
Because the attrition rate for actual Checker taxis is ridiculously high compared to other cars, most Checkers on the market today are either non-taxi variants or come with some unique backstory that...
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Muhammad Ali, Walter Cronkite once rode in Janie, the last NYC Checker taxi
Photos courtesy Bonhams. Many Checkers wearing the iconic yellow-and-checkerboard New York City paint scheme these days can’t lay claim to actually having plied the streets of the Big Apple picking up...
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