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Title: Junkyard find Post by: scalebowler on August 17, 2011, 12:35:15 am Found this at the junkyard today and thought it was pretty neat. Not 100% sure about how I'm going to display it but I was thinking of mounting it on the wall or something like that.
(http://i515.photobucket.com/albums/t357/ScaleBowler/DSCF1517.jpg) (http://i515.photobucket.com/albums/t357/ScaleBowler/DSCF1518.jpg) Title: Re: Junkyard find Post by: Kilroy on August 17, 2011, 06:30:34 am Mount it on a piece of maple, pine or such, router the edges, stain if desired.
Should be able to rewire it to light up. Or go back to the junk yard, have them cut you off a roof, and make a cool wall piece. :) Title: Re: Junkyard find Post by: rayg on August 17, 2011, 03:11:52 pm Being from a Taxi, it shold be running 12VDC, a small transformer 9~12 VDC should work fine.
Title: Re: Junkyard find Post by: BONOVOX on August 17, 2011, 05:21:03 pm Put it on your car, drive around the bars at closing, make a few bucks!
Or.... change your number to that, place it on your car, and away you go! :tounge: Title: Re: Junkyard find Post by: loman4ec on August 17, 2011, 07:50:33 pm Go to a scrap yard and have them cut a roof off at the pillers. Paint the roof yellow, mount it on the roof and hang the roof on the wall. It would look pretty cool.
Title: Re: Junkyard find Post by: scalebowler on August 17, 2011, 11:17:31 pm Go to a scrap yard and have them cut a roof off at the pillers. Paint the roof yellow, mount it on the roof and hang the roof on the wall. It would look pretty cool. That sounds like it would be really cool! I wonder how much something like that would cost (or if I would even be allowed to have it in the house) You know it would make a really neat coffee table.Title: Re: Junkyard find Post by: Cokemachinesandmore on August 18, 2011, 04:56:25 pm i have a friend that owns a few checker marathons, he had one done up as a yellow taxi and one as a checker cab. one of them was used in an allstate commercial that had the chicago water tower in the background. he has had a bunch of the cab toppers and fare boxes too.
Title: Re: Junkyard find Post by: scalebowler on August 19, 2011, 01:34:14 am i have a friend that owns a few checker marathons, he had one done up as a yellow taxi and one as a checker cab. one of them was used in an allstate commercial that had the chicago water tower in the background. he has had a bunch of the cab toppers and fare boxes too. That sounds pretty cool! Are the ones he has the real neat old looking taxis?Title: Re: Junkyard find Post by: indymanjoe on August 21, 2011, 09:30:09 pm park outside of bars and charge 2xs less than a D.U.I LOL
Title: Re: Junkyard find Post by: Cokemachinesandmore on August 22, 2011, 09:30:36 am yes the old style cabs that you only see in movies, he has probably owned about 15 or so. We had a governor (thompson) who didnt go to jail from illinois if you can believe it. He is a big man, literally he use to get driven around in a checker marathon. they are very roomy inside, i use to like sitting in the jump seats when i was a kid.
Title: Re: Junkyard find Post by: Cokemachinesandmore on August 22, 2011, 09:33:20 am this style
Title: Re: Junkyard find Post by: scalebowler on August 22, 2011, 03:36:03 pm Thats awesome! Would be cool if they still used taxis that looked like that.
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