Checker Aerobus

The Checker Aerobus was an extended version of the Checker Marathon built by Checker Motors Corporation from 1962 to 1977, meant mainly as an airport shuttle. It came on two wheelbases as a seven or nine-door station wagon (A12W) or a six or eight-door sedan (A12E), seating nine or twelve people with luggage. Early cars used Chrysler's 5.2 litre A318 V8; from 1965 it followed the Marathon to Chevrolet power, with the 327 cubic inch small-block and later the 350. A total of 3,568 were built. The company floated a prisoner transport Convoy and an ambulance, but no sale of either is recorded. After no Aerobus models in 1975, the Aerobus 15, based on the long-wheelbase A12E sedan with jump seats for 15 people, was built in 1976 and 1977, 60 and 47 units respectively.