Checker Superba

The Checker Superba was a Checker passenger car for private buyers, built on the maker's taxicab body. Checker Motors of Kalamazoo, Michigan produced it from 1959 to 1963 on the same body as its taxicabs, in standard and Custom trim, each as a four-door sedan and a five-door station wagon. Its grille had an arched centre section flanked by chrome wings, with engine ventilation slots in the middle and star-like housings for the parking lights. A 1962 update raised the front bumper and fender sculpturing and brought a full-width egg-crate grille. Output was small, about 1,050 cars in the first year, far below even the weakest full-line American maker of the day. The Checker line was introduced in the fall of 1959 in New York and the New England states only, and nationally in February 1960.