The Checker Taxi Stand

The most common question I have received (from non-checkerheads) is "What are you going to do with it?" Well, at least they are not asking, "What year is it?" In all fairness, it is a good question w ...

Well, it seems pretty simple. Take it to a muffler shop that you trust. Maybe take it to two shops and see what they tell you. It should be pretty easy to figure out once you have it on the rack. ...

I have a 67 station wagon and there is a round red light under the dash on the left side of the steering wheel. The light comes on when the car is turned on and the the parking brake is engaged. It ...

Road trip Day #10 We met the rest of my family and friends in Palm Springs, they drove-up from San Diego. Everyone was thrilled with the Aerobus. My wife said it looked better than she expected. “ ...

Jim, you are scaring me about the flex in the frame thing. I guess I should never let anybody raise my vehicle on a rack unless they support it closer to the axel. It seems the front end weight was ...

Well, John there is no auxillary heater core on the floor. Maybe they took it out. I thought that big fann assembly in the trunk was a heater but paul looked at it and said it was for A/C.

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Yeh, I figured I was over feeding her with octane but I wanted to do whatever I could to assure I could make it across country.

Day Trip Day #7 When you wake up on the plains of Reydon, Oklahoma yo ...

Road trip Day #6 The Wal-Mart at Clarksville is like…well every other Wal-Mart. The people just look and talk different. I had to have a photo of the Aerobeast under the Wal-Mart sign and I got one ...

John, thanks for all your info on the wiper motor and switch. I will check it out next week when I am home. We are out of rain country now and there are no predictions of in our final route home. L ...

John, I haven't figured out how to do the photo thing yet. I will try when I get home. Route 66 sure adds a lot of nostalgia to the trip. We have lot's of photos as my co-pilot is a photographer.
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Roadtrip day #3 At 7:30am I woke up the neighborhood again with the starting of the engine. This time there was a clicking noise before the engine turned over. I might need a battery. I drove to R ...

Road trip Day #2 was spent mostly getting the car ready for the transcontinental journey. When I started the car up in the morning I woke up the whole neighborhood. (Rockville is a quiet, upscale ne ...

I took a red eye from San Diego to JFK and arrived at Mira Auto Repair in Queens at 8am. The doors were just opening and the Big Black AeroBeast was on the racks. The day before they changed all the ...

They couldn't get the Aerobus started in the lot where it was stored in Brooklyn so I had to arrange for a flatbed tow truck to get the beast to Mira Auto Body. It took me 4 days, and $400, to arrang ...

Well, it looks like a we are going to meet another Checker Owner in Bristol for the Nascar races. You know, I tell my friends about this transcontinental Aerobus Journey and they all ask me about the ...