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 produced many Marathon sedans between 1961 and 1982, but reportedly only 200 were fitted with the Perkins diesel engine.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Q: Greg, I lived in Chicago for over 40 years and vividly remember three vehicles from back in the 1950s. I remember the International delivery trucks called the Metro, and also the four-door ...

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 ...

When I was a young man, all of 18 years, I drove a Checker cab in NYC. What a beauty of a vehicle, which I, of course, didn’t appreciate back then. I was also playing in a rock-and-roll band and going ...

Q: Greg, I lived in Chicago for over 40 years and vividly remember three vehicles from back in the 1950s. I remember the International delivery trucks called the Metro, and also the four-door ...