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   From: bowman@montana.com   
      
   On Sat, 13 Dec 2025 02:08:27 -0500, c186282 wrote:   
      
   >    Checkers were very decent vehicles - and intended to stand up to   
   >    urban taxi service uses. Huge 6 cyl towards the end as I remember.   
      
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checker_Marathon   
      
   The Marathons were the civilian version but the taxi models were the same.   
   The one he had when we were in high school must have had the Continental   
   engine. The two after that had Chevrolet engines. I know the silver one   
   had a 283. Checker made the bodies but the engines and running gear were a   
   crap shoot.   
      
   I was amused when some of the movies that wanted to show a seen in   
   Translovakia of some other fictional eastern European country would use   
   Checkers as a car not too many people outside of Chicago or NYC would   
   recognize without taxicab livery.   
      
   My father in law was a rather strange person and the Checkers were just   
   the tip of the iceberg. It would like someone buying one of those strange   
   looking British hackneys. I did have another friend whose father bought a   
   Humber Super Snipe for obscure reasons.   
      
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