I’m going to bet that this 1981 Checker Marathon never really saw taxi duty over the last 30 years. As Checker enthusiasts have reminded me several times in the past, Checker would essentially build you a car any way you wanted it, and this wouldn’t be the first civilian-issued Marathon to get taxi stripes. Yet […]

If you haven’t yet noticed, scratchbuilders choose their subjects carefully, making sure they’re sufficiently obscure to have never previously been modeled in scale form, yet are not so obscure to be impossible to research. Danny Downs seems to be rather proficient at toeing that line, judging from the vehicles he’s selected for his own scratchbuilding […]

A GM-era Saab T-bones an innocent Peugeot out the side of a multistory parking structure and into the ground. Multiple VWs blow up – including a Eurovan (Caravelle) and an original Beetle – for no apparent reason. A Dodge van T-bones a gooseneck trailer holding a speedboat and, critically, many liters of gasoline; everything explodes […]