1970s Checker Taxi Cab at the Stars & Stripes show.

Once a familiar sight on the streets of New York the distinctive Checker is now history. The final example was built in 1982. This UK owned example is now used as a special-occasion hire car.

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Photos of Checkers and other American classics at Tatton show.

Taxi Cab from Checker.
Built in the: 1970s.
Colour(s): Yellow.

Shown in the picture above is a classic Checker seen at the Stars & Stripes American car show, held at Tatton Park in Cheshire. In all I have featured 80 photographs from this event, to see the others visit the main Stars & Stripes photo page. If the Taxi Cab shown above is yours, it'd be great to add some more background info on this vehicle to the page here, so please drop me a line if you can help.

There are several thousand photos of antique cars from the 1920s - 1970s on oldclassiccar - to view an index of them, and perhaps find more images of Taxi Cabs, or other classic Checkers, call in at the classic car photos page.

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