Anybody interested in making a few bucks on the side to pay for your project car?

[Richard Cranium]

Original-Owner 1978 Checker A11 Taxicab​

No Reserve: Original-Owner 1978 Checker A11 Taxicab

Bid for the chance to own a No Reserve: Original-Owner 1978 Checker A11 Taxicab at auction with Bring a Trailer, the home of the best vintage and classic cars online. Lot #124,591.

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[chargervert]

I was thinking like Deuce Bigelow male gigolo! There must be some mistake.....Did somebody say steak! Lol

 

[Runcharger]

So that's only 1 away from being an A12, gotta be a deal.

 

[Dfr360cuda]

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Travis

 

[YY1]

Civilian version on local CL supposedly owned by former checker plant employee who bought it new.

 

[MCODECUDA]

Back in the day my brother-in-law had a 12 passenger Checker wagon. We used to put dealer plates on it and hit the bars with one person being the designated driver. The rear seats were similar to school bus seats but the bottom seat brackets were enclosed in sheet metal. We would pull the seat bottom up and fill that cavity with beer and ice. It also had an old police siren in it and the button for it was controlled by someone in one of the rear seat. The last time that we used it was for a bachelor party and we were escorted out of a strip club by 6 to 8 Syracuse police officers. As we were leaving out the door one of the guys overheard one of the cops saying that once we got back into the car we would all be arrested. We ended up walking down to another bar and we called for several taxis to get us away from there. Fast forward to 4:00am. We had a friend that didn’t drink pick up the Checker and he told us that there was sill one cop car staking out the parking lot waiting for us to return. Those cops sure were pissed when we left in those taxi.

 

[moparedtn]

"Where to, mister?"

 

[WileE]

I was ready to do some pole-dancing...

 

[moparedtn]

Interesting that the car never was used for taxi service. Dude bought it straight up new.

 

[eldubb440]

 

[PlymCrazy]

That’d be a cool car to Uber with

 

[Richard Cranium]

Back in the day my brother-in-law had a 12 passenger Checker wagon. We used to put dealer plates on it and hit the bars with one person being the designated driver. The rear seats were similar to school bus seats but the bottom seat brackets were enclosed in sheet metal. We would pull the seat bottom up and fill that cavity with beer and ice. It also had an old police siren in it and the button for it was controlled by someone in one of the rear seat. The last time that we used it was for a bachelor party and we were escorted out of a strip club by 6 to 8 Syracuse police officers. As we were leaving out the door one of the guys overheard one of the cops saying that once we got back into the car we would all be arrested. We ended up walking down to another bar and we called for several taxis to get us away from there. Fast forward to 4:00am. We had a friend that didn’t drink pick up the Checker and he told us that there was sill one cop car staking out the parking lot waiting for us to return. Those cops sure were pissed when we left in those taxi.

Saw one of those in Talkeetna Alaska back in 2017.