Is It Time to Bring Back the Checker Cab?

If you are, say, older than 30, you probably rode in a Checker cab at one time or another. If you’re younger than that, you’ve certainly seen the yellow leviathans rumbling down big city streets in movies.

Checker was the mainstay of American tax fleets for about a half century. Their cabs were ungainly looking, but they had acres of room on the inside and were incredibly durable. Then, in the early 1960s, Checker began offering consumer vehicles — first the Superba and then the Marathon — that basically were cabs with more chrome and nicer interiors.

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