End of a Marathon

TonyCooper

Juano

Great find! lots of close-up possibilities...

willard3

This may be a "Rust Junkie" foto, Tony.

Stumblebum

Brilliant processing and lovely captures!

TonyCooper

Thanks for the comments. I have a fondness for Checkers having lived in Chicago
when most of the cabs were Checkers. They were sturdy beasts and roomy enough
to hold four to six passengers...three comfortably on the back bench seat, two more
on the fold-out jump seats, and one up front with the driver.

Checkers were made in Joliet, Illinoiis and then in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Checker didn't make
the engines, though. They used Continental engines. My 1948 Kaiser (owned in 1957) had a flat-six
Continental engine, and it would beat any other vehicle from a stoplight.

The Checker in the photograph was not used as a cab. No meter in the dash and no
jump seats. The Marathon was built between 1961 and 1982 and sold as a passenger
car. The Checker Superba was the taxi model.

Checkers were last made in 1982, but the company survived until 2009 making parts'
for GM vehicles.

The Checker legacy lives on with the many taxis around today with that checkerboard
body decoration motif.

black mamba

Really nice work, Tony. Terrific PP treatment. I appreciate the narrative. That car is a veritable goldmine for some aggressive abstract work.

Tom

David_S85

A little Bondo will fix that right up.

Seriously, this is a great subject, and you did it proud. Good post processing too.