Movie Prop Departments Take Note: Not all Taxis are Yellow!

by Checker_Taxi_Stand | Dec 8, 2019 | Blog

We have posted blogs in the past about taxi cab colors.   Clearly in the US, the most popular color in the public’s mind is yellow.    Yellow dates back to the days of John Hertz and the creation of Yellow Cab in Chicago. That said, we were shocked to see the recent...

1931 General Taxicab produced by GM

by Checker_Taxi_Stand | Nov 30, 2019 | Checkers For Sale

1930 Yellow Taxi. Very rare vehicle. It is the same model as used in the Jimmy Stewart movie It’s a Wonderful Life. I searched the internet and I could find only find two other examples world wide. This example came from the Harold Lemay auction about 5 years...

Checker’s Obsession for Stuffing Livestock in to Taxicabs!

by Checker_Taxi_Stand | Nov 30, 2019 | Blog, The Checker Taxi Stand

As Checker fans, we are all aware of the tremendous amount of room that can be found in the back of a standard Checker A12 Marathon or A11 Taxicab. Over the course of the 60 plus years of Checker production, the company was prone to promoting the idea of room via the...

Two Checker Deal $7000.00

by Checker_Taxi_Stand | Nov 29, 2019 | Checkers For Sale

I think the time has come for me to sell and pass both of my checkers (a green 1973 and a blue 1970) on to someone with more time. I don’t have the time or money at this point to continue to work on them and need to get a newer daily driver. The 1973 was a daily...

Dan Smith Checker Parts on the Move

by Checker_Taxi_Stand | Nov 27, 2019 | Blog, The Checker Taxi Stand

Its been about four weeks since the passing of our Checker friend Joe Pollard.   Joe served the Checker community well for over twenty plus years.  Over the last ten years Joe had built up a significant inventory of Checker parts.  Much of his consolidation came from...