Interwebs Catch of the Day

While looking around www.taxi-library.org I stumbled upon vintage ads from my Kalamazoo's favorite Child, the checker cab.

In this picture: a rear vintage Checker Diesel Cab poster ad. If you know where I can see more like this let us know!!!

This picture was found at http://www.taxi-library.org/

Beijing Taxi: A Film by MIAO WANG

BEIJING TAXI is a feature-length documentary that vividly portrays the ancient capital of China undergoing a profound transformation. The intimate lives of three taxi drivers are seen through a humanistic lens as they navigate a quickly morphing city, confronting modern issues and changing values. The three protagonists radiate a warm sense of humanity despite the struggles that each faces in adapting to new realities of life in the modern city. With stunning imagery of Beijing and a contemporary score rich in atmosphere, BEIJING TAXI communicates a visceral sense of the common citizens’ persistent attempts to grasp the elusive. The 2008 Summer Olympic Games serve as the backdrop for BEIJING TAXI's story, a coming out party for a rising nation and a metaphor for Chinese society and its struggles to reconcile enormous contradictions while adjusting to a new capitalist system that can seem foreign to some in the Communist-ruled and educated society. Candid and perceptive in its filming approach and highly cinematic and moody in style, BEIJING TAXI takes us on a lyrical journey through fragments of a society riding the bumpy roads to modernization. Though its destination unknown, the drivers continue to forge ahead.

Taxidepot adquired a Checker Cab for rehab

There is a new mission at Taxidepot's studios, it is about a checker cab remake-restoration-rehab project. We have the main body recovered, and  about 60% of the engine ready. The new restored checker cab will hit the New York streets in 2011, we can't wait!!! we are already in love with this iconic Cab.