Checker’s Albert Kahn Designed Plant

by Checker_Taxi_Stand | May 30, 2021 | History, The Checker Taxi Stand

Most Checker Cab fans are familiar with the storyof the early days of Checker production in Kalamazoo.  Morris Markin combined his Markin Auto Body business in Joliet with the Chicago based Commonwealth Automobile Company.  He combined the two companies into one...

David Markin’s Speech to Checker Motors Corp. Employee 6-10-08

by Checker_Taxi_Stand | Jan 27, 2021 | Blog, History, The Checker Taxi Stand

Hello Everyone For those of  you who may not have met me before, I am Davide Marking President of Checker Motors.  My father, Morris Markin started this corporation in 1922 and I have been CEO since 1970.  My son Christopher, has worked here for the past 10 years, and...

The New Checker of the 70’s and 80’s, The End of the Line

by Checker_Taxi_Stand | Sep 6, 2020 | Blog, History

By the 1970’s the Checker cab design was several automotive generations old. As the decade started the Checker A11 design had been in production for close to twenty years.  A11 design elements could be attributed to a 1950 clay design. Some chassis components had...

Checker Ambulances, Some Historical Perspective

by Checker_Taxi_Stand | May 27, 2020 | Blog, History, The Checker Taxi Stand

In 1957 Checker introduced the Adaptobile, based on a standard Checker, but with various features and functions that would allow the Checker to be uses as an Ambulance or mini bus. Seats could be removed to allow patient transportation. According to the brochure, the...

Dietrich Designed Checker Limo for Bishop Fulton Sheen Update

by Checker_Taxi_Stand | Apr 18, 2020 | Blog, History, The Checker Taxi Stand

  We have discussed the Bishop Sheen custom Checker in past blogs, we now have an update. We recently found in the Classic Car Club of America Archive files a memo written by automotive designer Raymond Dietrich, the memo documents the modifications for the Limo...

The Checker Fisher Body Program of 1981

by Checker_Taxi_Stand | Mar 31, 2020 | Blog, History, The Checker Taxi Stand

By the mid-seventies Checker would revisit the idea of producing a new Taxi.  In March of 1977, Ed Cole, former GM president, and Victor Potamkin, one of the largest car dealers in the US, bought control of Checker Motor’s taxi subsidiary:  Checker Taxi Co. then...