CHECKER (US) 1923-1982

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CHECKER (US) 1923-1982
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DaWeber	Jan 24 2009, 03:52 PM Post #1
Station Wagon Posts: 1,310 Group: Members Member #96 Joined: December 3, 2006 DLM or Cardboard Collector DLM Gender Male Preferred Brand Matchbox Favorite Car Chevy Cruze	CHECKER (US) 1923-1982 Checker Cab Company became an established taxicab manufacturer with headquarters in Kalamazoo, MI. The firm resulted from a combination of assets of the former Commonwealth Motors and Lomberg Auto Body Manufacturing firms. Commonwealth had previously Made Mogul Cabs. Due to financial difficulties , a Russian immigrant Morris Marklin was able to utilize the remains of these companies to enter into the specialized manufacture of taxicabs and subsequently became very successful during his lifetime for many years. Their products were in use in most of the larger cities throughout most of the US. In 1959 they introduced their first civilian models which maintained the same design as their cab versions. Although the cars were large with a lot of inside room and well constructed, this venture did not succeed . Possibly if a new design had been presented to the consumers, the company might still be in business. The last basic style existed with only minor changes from 1956 to their demise. Models of the cab have been producd by Golden Wheel, Matchbox, Summer and Albert Elovitz (NYC promotional that may be affiliated with Kerico). By far, the best replica is by Golden Wheel . Edited by DaWeber, Jan 25 2009, 05:24 PM.



Swifty	Jan 26 2009, 12:12 AM Post #2
The Mustang II is a Mustang too! Posts: 47,821 Group: Admin Member #1 Joined: July 3, 2006 DLM or Cardboard Collector DLM Gender Male Preferred Brand Yat Ming Location Pennsylvania Favorite Car Ford Mustang & Toyota Celica Supra



ChFalkensteiner	Feb 2 2009, 12:42 PM Post #3
Subcompact Posts: 69 Group: Members Member #1,559 Joined: December 10, 2008 DLM or Cardboard Collector DLM Gender Male Preferred Brand Matchbox Location Linz, Austria Favorite Car Citroen DS	Here are some pictures I have taken of real Checkers. Since the ordinary taxis are often seen anyway, I have chosen this civilian sedan - the very first non-taxi Checker I have seen in my life, during my first US trip in 1994, in New York City - ... ...and a station wagon version, encountered at the Towe Museum in Sacramento, CA in 2005:



Swifty	Feb 2 2009, 09:12 PM Post #4
The Mustang II is a Mustang too! Posts: 47,821 Group: Admin Member #1 Joined: July 3, 2006 DLM or Cardboard Collector DLM Gender Male Preferred Brand Yat Ming Location Pennsylvania Favorite Car Ford Mustang & Toyota Celica Supra	I do wish that someday one of the diecast manufacturers would make both a civilian and wagon version of the Marathon/A8.



Sak	Feb 8 2009, 01:17 PM Post #5
Ezekiel 25:17 Posts: 5,260 Group: Members Member #107 Joined: January 21, 2007 DLM or Cardboard Collector DLM Gender Male Location Mercerville, NJ Favorite Car 1960 Ford Country Squire	My God, if you've never seen one, you would not believe how much room was in the back. One night, after seeing Rush at the Palladium (the old Academy of Music on 14th Street), six of us not too small teenagers got into the back of a Checker cab comfortably, and headed uptown for drinks. We all sat comfortably. New York has used extended wheelbase Crown Vics for years now, that might be changing permanently to some kind of minivan. Nothing can touch a Checker, though.



Swifty	Mar 7 2009, 06:39 PM Post #6
The Mustang II is a Mustang too! Posts: 47,821 Group: Admin Member #1 Joined: July 3, 2006 DLM or Cardboard Collector DLM Gender Male Preferred Brand Yat Ming Location Pennsylvania Favorite Car Ford Mustang & Toyota Celica Supra



DaWeber	Mar 8 2009, 07:43 PM Post #7
Station Wagon Posts: 1,310 Group: Members Member #96 Joined: December 3, 2006 DLM or Cardboard Collector DLM Gender Male Preferred Brand Matchbox Favorite Car Chevy Cruze	The large yellow car was made by Golden Wheel and issued sometime around 2000. In my opinion it is the best representative model of this vehicle in small scale.The smaller yellow car has the name Albert E Elovitz, Pittsburgh PA on the baseplate and was available in NYC in various shops trading as "tourists traps" in the mid to late 90s for a short while. The white car is a fairly accurate model by Summer.



Swifty	Mar 8 2009, 09:06 PM Post #8
The Mustang II is a Mustang too! Posts: 47,821 Group: Admin Member #1 Joined: July 3, 2006 DLM or Cardboard Collector DLM Gender Male Preferred Brand Yat Ming Location Pennsylvania Favorite Car Ford Mustang & Toyota Celica Supra	DaWeber Mar 8 2009, 07:43 PM The large yellow car was made by Golden Wheel and issued sometime around 2000. In my opinion it is the best representative model of this vehicle in small scale.The smaller yellow car has the name Albert E Elovitz, Pittsburgh PA on the baseplate and was available in NYC in various shops trading as "tourists traps" in the mid to late 90s for a short while. The white car is a fairly accurate model by Summer. The Golden Wheel is by far the best model of the Checker made in small scale. Why JL and Greenlight have both ignored this car I haven't a clue... The Summer is fairly accurate only if you disregard the square wheel cutouts...



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