Our Checker in the media

 

After becoming members of the Cape Town Street Rod Club, our cab is now featured in their website: www.capetownstreetrods.co.za/page6.htm

 

abenteuerreisen_logo.jpg (10685 bytes)The best pictures of the taxi trip in a ten-pages photo feature in the German travel magazine abenteuer & reisen issue 6/2001 (German text):

What an idea! You are buying one of the last Checker cabs, yes, one of those yellow cult kulis made from tin, which already populated the street canyons of New York in the 50s and you are cruising in it across the States. Destination L.A. - Our South Africa correspondents Elke und Dieter Losskarn did just that.
Click here to read the printed road movie

W. Ehrnsperger
Chief editor abenteuer&reisen


bellevue_logo.jpg (7156 bytes)Die Aussteiger, Neustart in Südafrika
Ein Bericht von Nanette Kröker (German text)

 

spice.jpg (7597 bytes)In the South African based Spice magazine (issue 5/2001)
our cab tells it's story (English)

 

leisure_wheels_logo.jpg (5590 bytes)Another article (English) about the Checker trip in the South African Leisure Wheels magazine
(Issue 1/2001)

 

oldtimer_markt_logo.jpg (10513 bytes)Europes biggest classic car magazine Oldtimer Markt (issue 2/2000) published our article "Taxi Driver" , about the first part of our taxi trip across the States.



At the visit at 777 ranch in Hondo, Texas, owner Kevin Christiansen treated cab and cabbie as celebraties. Click here.

After the first taxi trip the South African Sunday Times reported about it.

And World New York did find the article interesting enough to publish part of it as well.

 

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August 05, 2004