The Checker Taxi Stand

The ICTA is proud to announce that the ICTA is now offering new castings of the classic Checker Marathon interior dome light.   Cast from a high impact resin, these castings are mainly for the improvement of the Checkers overall interior appearance.  A very thin...

Back in 2014, Joe Pollard shared some great photos of a Checker with this writer,   the photos were of a Checker undergoing a major customization.  The Checker is being converted from four doors to two doors!  This long running project started close to ten years ago. ...

Belmont, Michigan is a beautiful community approximately 15 miles north of Grand Rapids.  A quaint town, major site seeing highpoints is the Rogue River and the Cannonberg Ski and Ride Park, it would be a great place to visit to relax and unwind.   Recently Belmont,...

Back in 2016 ICTA member Alex Ginsberg posted the beautiful picture in the header with the following comment “I moved down to St. Louis in 1998 to attend graduate school, and was surprised to see 3 Checkers in RED operating in the city. I took multiple photos through...

We Checker collectors are quite a quirky bunch. Anybody who loves Checker Cabs has to have some form or personality disorder or are just plain down-right crazy. So was the case of Ray Kottner.  He had a crazy idea and it actually worked for a couple of years.  Ray was...