Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. Say the name Checker and most people think of the notable Checker cab. Found across America, and dominating the ...

The cab lumbers through the mists of time like a yellow-and-black-checked dinosaur, pulling to the curb with the majestic grace of a docking ocean liner. As you hop into a back seat seemingly big ...

Q: Greg, I remember fondly going to Horn & Hardart food luncheonettes with my parents many times in New York in the 1960s and we always took a Checker Cab to get there. I also remember seeing those ...

Black River Falls’ Roger Castle vividly remembers the rows of cabs waiting for him at the train station in Chicago when he was just 12 years old. He ended up taking a ride in one of those iconic ...

An accomplished industrial designer, Dick Thomas has designed stylized golf carts and even a futuristic gigantic over-the-road truck called the "Windclipper." But his heart still belongs to his bright ...

No vehicle is as engrained into the landscape of a metropolis like the mighty Checker Marathon is with New York City. This broad-shouldered and big-bumpered sedan is as much of an N.Y.C. icon as the ...

Once a vital part of day-to-day transportation in major cities like Chicago, Boston and, most notably, New York, Checker-brand taxis ceased production in 1982 and the cabs have since been replaced by ...