A Checkerdream comes true.

If you've ever seen a Checkercab, or maybe even had a ride in one, you would probably not have forgetten this experience in the short term. Either you fall in love with the vehicle, or you hate the ugly whale-like car. As the reader would probably expect, the first option happened to me. About 20 years ago my friends and I went to a Rock'n'roll meeting in the south of the Netherlands. The organiser of the event was the proud owner of a green Checker Marathon, and his car was parked in front of the main hall. Amazed we walked around the car. According to the licence-plate it was a car from the seventies (in Holland you can usually tell the age of a car by the license-plate) but it definitely had a fifties look. To us, a fifties look was a condition to call a vehicle “car” anyway, and to be honest, I still think so. The only thing we disagreed on were the bumpers. By the look of it they seemed to be cut out of a motorway-barrier. We didn't like the style really, but on the other hand, who would dare to cut you off, or fool around with you with bumpers like that. And maybe the police (not my best friends in these days too) could show some more respect for the appearance of greasers in traffic. Eventually we considered the Checker as an OK-car.