NTHSA Issues Low Volume Auto Manufacturer Regulations

by Checker_Taxi_Stand | Jan 26, 2020 | Blog, The Checker Taxi Stand

There was a lot of excitement back in 2015 about the potential new production of Checker Cabs. The New York Daily News article reported the following? “Revamped Checker Motors announces two new concepts including El Camino-style sport pickup”.  The article reported  ...

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...

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...

Wall Street Journal Article, Phillips Family Checker

by Checker_Taxi_Stand | Jan 16, 2020 | The Checker Taxi Stand

Great article about the a family Checker in the Wall Street Journal.  “The Phillips’s 1975 Checker was recently restored. It was plain back in the 1970s, but now it is ‘like a luxury car,’ Ms. Phillips says”   Jeremy M. Lange for The Wall Street Journal...