66 Checker Maratchon wagon

[Grzegorz]

 

[thatz4u]

very nice

[Dann Tier]

Pretty neat!

[Grzegorz]

very nice

Pretty neat!

Thanks

[bbowser]

I'm always amazed at your scratchbuilding work.  Great model.  What did you start with?

[vintagercr]

Nice work!

[PARTSMARTY]

That's cool for sure.

[DumpyDan]

Well done, I like it

[disabled modeler]

Very nice..!   I am a wagon nut.

[mikemopar70]

Nice job!!

[David G.]

Nicely Done!

David G.

[John Goschke]

Wow!  That's different – nice work! 

When I was about 10 years old, in 1963, my Dad was new car shopping, ordering brochures thru the mail, and when I saw a Checker brochure arrive one day I was really upset 'cause I thought they were ugly. Then he got a used sedan loaner from the local repair shop and it looked like a giant toad parked behind our '58 Del Rio Ranch Wagon. But my Dad didn't like the Checker because it had a six, and he was a "V-8 man." He finally traded the Ranch Wagon for a used '61 Olds F-85 wagon with the little V-8 – man, was I relieved!  No taxi cab!

[PamO]

Great job! I was born and raised in Kalamazoo and my uncle worked for Checker for 40 years. In junior high school ('64-'66) the local police had a fleet of Checkers with V-8's, 283's, 327's & 350 small blocks. Also, the Upjohn Company, located in Kazoo, had many Checkers for transportation cars painted gray & white like their pill boxes. One was a stretch but don't remember the exact number of doors.

[Maindrian Pace]

Very nice job, you got the look just right.

A friend told me that his parents were shopping for a new car in 1963 or 1964 to replace their '53 Ford sedan. His father insisted on looking at the Checker Marathon as he didn't like any of the "new" cars because they were too low, and he couldn't wear his hat, and a man wears a hat! So they went to a, or possibly the only Chicago Checker dealer (a very lonely man) and test drove the car. He liked it a lot, and asked his wife what she thought. She said, "If you buy this car, you will need to buy a second car for me because I refuse to ride in it." They got a Mercury Commuter wagon instead.

[ChrisR]

Looks great! What scale?

[Grzegorz]

Great job! I was born and raised in Kalamazoo and my uncle worked for Checker for 40 years. In junior high school ('64-'66) the local police had a fleet of Checkers with V-8's, 283's, 327's & 350 small blocks. Also, the Upjohn Company, located in Kazoo, had many Checkers for transportation cars painted gray & white like their pill boxes. One was a stretch but don't remember the exact number of doors.

....police checker,this is a very interesting idea...thanks 

[Grzegorz]

Looks great! What scale?

this is 1/24 scale i used die cast franklin mint checker.....

[misterNNL]

great model of an unusual subject. Thanks for sharing.

[Eric Macleod]

I too am from Kalamazoo.  My grandparents bought a  67 Sedan new and my dad was the vice president of the national Checker Clu b. They are great cars especially when equipped with the 327. I built a resin sedan once. Yours looks much cleaner than mine did. Well done.

[1930fordpickup]

This is a very nice model. Great choice for a subject. 

[Grzegorz]

I too am from Kalamazoo.  My grandparents bought a  67 Sedan new and my dad was the vice president of the national Checker Clu b. They are great cars especially when equipped with the 327. I built a resin sedan once. Yours looks much cleaner than mine did. Well done.

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[StockBoresMe]

Great job! I was born and raised in Kalamazoo and my uncle worked for Checker for 40 years. In junior high school ('64-'66) the local police had a fleet of Checkers with V-8's, 283's, 327's & 350 small blocks. Also, the Upjohn Company, located in Kazoo, had many Checkers for transportation cars painted gray & white like their pill boxes. One was a stretch but don't remember the exact number of doors.

PamO I'm from Kalamazoo. I'm living in it right now lol. I believe that stretch you talk about was inherited by the gazette here. They have a giant rolled up newspaper on the roof and it's mainly a parade vehicle now. When i was a kid I lived in fulton and the house next door was abandoned years before I moved there and it had a heavily sunken into the dirt marathon i used to play in when mom wasnt paying attention