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'40 Plymouth Taxi at Disney


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We just returned from a week of frolicking at Disney with the grandkids. I am getting way to old for all of that activity  :) . However, while there, we also visited Universal Studios and Disney Hollywood where there were old autos sitting around the various streets. This '40 Plymouth taxi was very nice and included the toll box on the dash. Anyone here do the taxi restoration?

 

Phil

 
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It is interesting how people can walk by that car and seemingly not even notice it. That car is dead gorgeousl

Yeah, even when I was taking pictures people were totally oblivious to this beautiful car. I would really like to know it's history.

 

Phil

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Robust taxi-meter in the 4th photo. Would like to see the details.

Do the fellows here (Lou & Rob?) have the cars still equipped with the original 40's-50's meters?

 

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Scanned eBay and found that there are quite many different taxi-meters from 30's to 60's

 

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I do not intend to hi-jack the thread to other makes, but I've been told that you do not have pre-50's Checker cars left in the States due to Checker company effective re-cycling policy?

 

Even if Checker was never imported to Finland by any dealer, we have some 3-4 40's A2 models survived here...

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It's a long famous story, roots in the WW2 and poor times after, summer Olympics 1952 in Helsinki...

However, the city authorities decided that old pre-war taxi cabs would be shameful and bad for city image during the Games, thus a pool of taxi entrepreneurs sent agent over to Checker Co. to buy a batch of used taxi cabs. That's the only time Checkers were imported. It turned out disaster because the agent got greedy, tried to save money for himself and bought burned out A2's instead of newer A3's as he should have done...  The above car is the only survivor of the batch of some 40..50 cars. There are 3-4 almost complete parts cars along with this one.

I've heard that Checker enthusiast all over the world have been here to se these cars. There were a mention with a picture in "Hemmings Classic Car" of the finnish A3's some 3-4 years ago.

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The A3, not much different from A2 in a picture.

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Rats, I guess I won't after all. Great photos though.

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