MY DAD DROVE A CAB IN NEW ORLEANS IN THE MID-50S.I RODE WITH HIM A COUPLE OF TIMES AT NITE IN THE FRENCH QUARTERS.ALL I REMEMBER IS THE LAMPOSTS AND HOOKERS AND WINOS MIXED WITH JAZZ IN THE BACKGROUND.THOSE WERE THE GOOD OLD DAYS LONG AGO.TAKE CARE AND GOD BLESS EVERYONE.
TAXI MOVIES D C CAB TAXI DRIVER This was a FUN episode, very interesting subject… SURF FINK looks good KAWABUNGA DUDE ….. Surfs up 🏄🏼 ……… Beach Blanket Bingo 🌴 FAR OUT MAN, Tubular….. that’s all I got 😅😂😅😂 and as always SURF ON 🌊🏄🏼 🌊 Hang Ten Dudes CHRIS 🇺🇸
I quick check of IMDB shows "The Good Guys" ran from 1968-1970. Some familiar names in the credits are Bob Denver, Herb Edelman, Joyce Van Patten, Jack Perkins. Alan Hale, Jr, and Jim Backus.
@@HootOwl513 Yes. They should make cars like that today. All are bubble shaped with fat lower bodies that taper to the roof. No freaking room in most of them.
I'd drive that Checker station wagon. Then again, the sedan probably has all the carry capacity I'd ever need. And I'm going to go looking for that resin 1:72.
I watch Ed's videos too. Lots of good info accompanied with a bit of satirical opinion to go with information. I don't think I've seen any kits although there are HO scale Checker cans that can be used based on 50's- 70's era layouts. They cost $22 USD. Unfortunately, they are not kits. They are, as almost all HO scale vehicles, already assembled. I'll send a photo thru email.
I remember those Checker Marathon taxies in Chicago in the Late Fifties and Sixties. Yellow Cabs were banana yellow and Checker Cabs were a Green and Cream panda pattern. Most have a Chevy L6 engine in them. 235/261 until 1963, then 250s mostly. Some station wagons had the 292 L6. The civilian Marathon could also be ordered with the 292. Of course, wherever you have an L6, a V8 SBC could also fit.
In the mid 1970s, when I was in high school, there was a girl whose parents each drove the "civilian" version of the Checker Cab. Her father was a doctor who felt that it was the best built car in the US.
If anybody would do a kit of a Checker Cab, it might be Moebius. Seems right up their alley, IF they can figure on selling enough to make it worth the investment. Otherwise, one of the resin kit makers or even 3D printing. Have Ken see if there are any 3D print files out there. 🤔
Max on a surfboard seriously no 125 124 model kits of a checker we're ever done buy a major manufacturer and it's a shame cuz that would be a heck of a good selling kit
MY DAD DROVE A CAB IN NEW ORLEANS IN THE MID-50S.I RODE WITH HIM A COUPLE OF TIMES AT NITE IN THE FRENCH QUARTERS.ALL I REMEMBER IS THE LAMPOSTS AND HOOKERS AND WINOS MIXED WITH JAZZ IN THE BACKGROUND.THOSE WERE THE GOOD OLD DAYS LONG AGO.TAKE CARE AND GOD BLESS EVERYONE.
Good times!
BOURBON STRRET BEAT ,1959@@maxsmodels
As Crocodile Dundee said about Checker cabs, "That's why you have so many accidents here.The steering wheel's on the wrong side of the car!"
TAXI MOVIES
D C CAB
TAXI DRIVER
This was a FUN episode, very interesting subject…
SURF FINK looks good
KAWABUNGA DUDE …..
Surfs up 🏄🏼 ………
Beach Blanket Bingo 🌴
FAR OUT MAN, Tubular…..
that’s all I got 😅😂😅😂
and as always
SURF ON 🌊🏄🏼 🌊
Hang Ten Dudes
CHRIS 🇺🇸
BOURBON STREET BEAT
Radical, Man.
I quick check of IMDB shows "The Good Guys" ran from 1968-1970. Some familiar names in the credits are Bob Denver, Herb Edelman, Joyce Van Patten, Jack Perkins. Alan Hale, Jr, and Jim Backus.
Ever since I watched Tavi driver, I've been dying to make a checker cab model
Had a ride in a Checker Cab a few times. All I can remember was they had a lot of room in the back seat.
And Jump Seats behind the driver's bench, Usually a plexiglass window separating the Driver from the passengers, with a little sliding window.
@@HootOwl513 Yes. They should make cars like that today. All are bubble shaped with fat lower bodies that taper to the roof. No freaking room in most of them.
@@garfieldsmith332 That's why I drive a '68 Chevy C/10 Srepside pickuo.
I'd drive that Checker station wagon. Then again, the sedan probably has all the carry capacity I'd ever need.
And I'm going to go looking for that resin 1:72.
@@Donleecartoons I'll bet the Checker Marathon Wagon would be a better work rig than the 2003 Chevy Tahoe, I bought this March.
The sunburn looks awesome! Nice job. I have one of those now I need to finish.
I watch Ed's videos too. Lots of good info accompanied with a bit of satirical opinion to go with information.
I don't think I've seen any kits although there are HO scale Checker cans that can be used based on 50's- 70's era layouts. They cost $22 USD.
Unfortunately, they are not kits. They are, as almost all HO scale vehicles, already assembled.
I'll send a photo thru email.
Thanks for video Max, I tried searching for model kit of Checker Cab awile back, To No avail, but I did find a Revell Black London Taxi 1/24
I remember those Checker Marathon taxies in Chicago in the Late Fifties and Sixties. Yellow Cabs were banana yellow and Checker Cabs were a Green and Cream panda pattern. Most have a Chevy L6 engine in them. 235/261 until 1963, then 250s mostly. Some station wagons had the 292 L6. The civilian Marathon could also be ordered with the 292. Of course, wherever you have an L6, a V8 SBC could also fit.
In the mid 1970s, when I was in high school, there was a girl whose parents each drove the "civilian" version of the Checker Cab. Her father was a doctor who felt that it was the best built car in the US.
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I saw the ad for the Checker Marathon in the back pages of Popular Mechanics and begged my dad to get one. I was a pest😊
Thank you!
Johan did the caddy station wagon well before the ghostbusters. Originally an ambulance and then a hearse.
Great topic
thanks
If anybody would do a kit of a Checker Cab, it might be Moebius. Seems right up their alley, IF they can figure on selling enough to make it worth the investment. Otherwise, one of the resin kit makers or even 3D printing. Have Ken see if there are any 3D print files out there. 🤔
Hi Max. Are there any of those original cabs still running in New York?
Last Checker taxi was retired in 1999 with over 1,000,000 miles on it. There are plenty of them in private hands and some are for sale.
I was always told they were built like tanks.
they were
nice
Max on a surfboard seriously no 125 124 model kits of a checker we're ever done buy a major manufacturer and it's a shame cuz that would be a heck of a good selling kit
I agree