Checker’s Use of Mock-ups

by Checker_Taxi_Stand | Jan 22, 2020 | Blog, The Checker Taxi Stand

So how did Checker design their cars? Answer, just like other manufacturers, they used mockups or prototypes. In manufacturing and design, a mockup, is a scale or full-size model of a design or device, used for teaching, demonstration, design evaluation, promotion,...

80 Years Ago Today

by Checker_Taxi_Stand | Jan 20, 2020 | Blog, The Checker Taxi Stand

80 years ago today, this photo in the header was taken of the new Checker plant under construction. Designed by Albert Kahn, this plant would become the main stamping facility. This building allowed Checker to migrate away from wood bodied taxicabs to complete steel...

Checker Marathon 1968. – $8000 (inner sunset / UCSF)

by Checker_Taxi_Stand | Jan 18, 2020 | Checkers For Sale

One owner California car, original license plates, Chevy 307 V8. 280 thousand miles. Garaged over 10 years in San Francisco has not run in that long. White with red interior. All original engine and transmission. Purchase from Dick Dye Imports in Oakland by my dad in...

Dick Thomas Checker Models

by Checker_Taxi_Stand | Jan 18, 2020 | Blog, The Checker Taxi Stand

The ICTA published a blog prior to Christmas providing links to the myriads of Checker Marathon and Taxicab models available on the market today.  If you read it, you’d discover that today there are literally hundreds of models available to the Checker collector, but...

Dan Smith Saves a Chicago Propane Car

by Checker_Taxi_Stand | Jan 18, 2020 | The Checker Taxi Stand

Another real retired Chicago cab into my fleet. 229 v6 factory propane. 1650a green and a1222 ivory is stamped on the vin. ICTA member Ben Merkel checked the vin this is 1 of 50 to the last order to Chicago. After its service in Chicago it went on to become a happy...