Some of the legit cab companies do it too. pull it into the paint booth, whip out the checker cab yellow, Voila! a cab is born. The secret of the old checker cabs is they didn’t make their own engines and transmissions, they bought them from the big 3. They only made the bodies, which had all the mechanical sophistication of a paving brick.
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I went to look at a used garden tractor and the guy had a half dozen old Checker cabs along with probably a million pounds of junk. He was one of those guys who was going to get them running “some day”.