* The Smithsonian wants your help in deciding which two of its cars it should bring out of storage to display in the National Museum of American History by voting for one of eight historically significant cars. A Tucker (would that be #1039?) is one of the eight. Voting lasts through January 11. (via) * […]
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 […]
As anybody familiar with Checkers knows, these were not cars designed to last the ages. They were built to be used up, run hard by taxi drivers and to be replaced as needed. Thus, it’s more than unusual to find actual physical remains of any Checker prior to about 1960, and it’s downright rare to […]