yeah sucks Do wish I could of gone thru the old Checker factory b4 it got torn down

Pawsome!!!! It looks like an classic older than an car built in 1981 because most 1980s cars were boxy looking LOL! :D =^.^=

cause they made this same model since the 1950s!
They made station wagon types, 8 door limos & this model

some things hit on a classic and don't change. the divco milk truck, the ups delivery truck, and the checker. looks so much like the 58 chevy. (58 was the year the big u.s. consumer auto makers went to dual headlights as a design element, (59 they went crazy with wings, like you were going to fly the damd things or something)) not sure what year checker started that design, looks some time in the mid 50s. but yes, as far as i know, the never changed it, right up to the end. well they were build to endure the service they were designed for. looks didn't count for that much, and when the look of everything else changed, their unchanging appearance made them highly visible.

i was born and grew up in that era, of intercity rail in the u.s., that made local stops in small towns along the way, pay phones in wooden booths everywhere people gather and might need one, and to get from the big train station to your hotel in some strange city, you rode one of these. (if it was your own town and you know the routs, you took the trolly, unless you were trying to impress someone).

any big town you went in the u.s., there were two cab companies. one was called yellow, and that's the color they painted them, and the other was called checker.

(i suppose the idea may have been the checkered flag at a race course, but i never thought of that at the time. maybe a nice friendly game of checkers instead?)

Checker Marathon model, a Chevrolet engine and transmission but all else was made and built there at the plant in Kazoo. My mother worked there during the 1930's sewing leather to interior door handles used to close the rear doors. These cars were built like an army tank, as used daily in city traffic as taxis in constant stop and go driving. The light blue color was not a factory original color!

that's Kalamazoo, Michigan silly

Sweet!

awesome

Oh man, if only, the transport costs would kill me.

Someday I'd like to get the station wagon version of one of these. They were just too cool. If I had the money and the space I'd buy this one in a second!

same Tho with the SW I'd plop in a Chevy V8 anyway

Lol cool

need to see the rear end of one

XD yeah

IF I got one I'd change the tail lights
cause some older Checkers had the red on top & the reverse light just below that
Later versions the reverse light got moved down onto the body under the trunk
Where the reverse light was that became a double brake light

Ah, cool

yeah You can see examples of that on the old TV show Taxi

What's the word on the 1981 Checker?

no idea but didn't have the $3500 for it
or it would of came home with me that day

Damn! Wonder if it's stil there

doubt it since this was last year

Yeah. That checker was an early 1980's design of a 1950's-1960's style car. I wouldn't have had room anyway if I got it😂

same & 1982 was the last year for Checker
Plus I always did think they resembled 1955 - 1957 BelAirs

Yeah.😊

but with quad everything

Exactly!

I've been driving this cab for 30 years and let me tell you Snake, you don't walk these streets at night!

Built back when America was independent and made everything for itself, shame where this country has gone, now everything is made overseas, even the New York taxis are fugly Nissan Vans, I mean the Checkers were gone since at least the 1990s, but they still used many Fords, Chevys, Dodges, etc for their taxis, but this is ridiculous where we have gone.