Checker Motors Corp., the parts supplier that gained fame in the middle of the last century with the Checker Marathon taxi cab, has filed for bankruptcy protection after 87 years in business. Checker ...

Checker Motors, today's builder and subcontractor of automotive sheetmetal body components, is still remembered as being the producer of the most recognizable taxi platform in the United States.

Q: Greg, I enjoyed the article on the USPS delivery vans and wonder if you can shed some light on those great Checker Taxi cabs from the 1970s. Thanks, Bob L., Pennsylvania. A: Bob, I have to admit ...

Commentator Daniel Pinkwater recalls a Checker cab he once owned. He rode around with his large dogs. Occasionally, people would mistake the car for a real taxi. He tells about one old woman who ...

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Checker Cab Manufacturing Co.’s first cab rolls off the line in Kalamazoo, Mich., on June 18, 1923. The company was founded by Morris Markin, a Russian immigrant, in 1922 as Checker Cab Manufacturing ...