Taxi!!!

[Princess Valiant]

anyone here ever drove a mopar that was a former taxi?

Seems like a unique and fun way to make new novelty use of an abandoned four door mopar.

Amazing through Mopar history how many cars served the utility purpose day in and day out.

 

[Oklacarcollecto]

Never have seen a Mopar taxi around here.

 

[rumblefish360]

I have seen PLENTY of these around the NYC area. Also note, the police used models I. Pic's 5&7. Uhhh, yep, I know what those look like from the back seat all to well. Taxi's not so much but from what I remember, there was little difference between them. Mostly in the door locks which you can't open up in the police cars, lack of safety belts in the cop cars....

 

[toolmanmike]

Joseph Vaillancourt's 1963 Plymouth Fury, driven as a cab since the mid-1960s, reached 2,609,698 km (1,621,591 miles), when it was struck and totalled by a truck. Vaillancourt was unhurt, and a Quebec actor, Michel Barette (who drove a Prowler at the time) spent roughly $20,000 to restore the Fury, the highest mileage car in North America. That included buying the taxi dome light, a beacon to the riding public for over 35 years, from the Diamond Taxi Company.

 

[Bad Sport]

Back in the late 70's I drove a taxi that was a Mopar, more than one actually. I ended up buying one as my DD for a while.

 

[72Dodge]

I love them all. Neat pictures you found there, especially the line of Furys (?) (the last pic). I know most would like the older cars better, but my favorites are the Diplomats, probably just because I grew up seeing Dippy police cars and taxis everywhere (and ahem, sitting in the back seats of a few of one or both of those LOL). I don't remember ever seeing an Aspen taxi, so that's cool, especially captured with the Aspen station wagon right next to it. Awesome!

 

[goldfish65]

Never owned one but I have taxi story from Cancun. We were on a ferry, as we were pulling away for a day trip I noticed a '65 Valiant in the line of taxi's at the landing...I thought "I hope it's there when we get back"...sure enough it was so we rode back to town in it and it was remarkable how comfortable the ride was on the rough roads.

 

[Frankie]

Well, in a way MoPar Still has a "taxi". It's the minivan. A MoPar invention ( at least for America).

 

[No name needed]

Me ride in a cab. I can't begin to ponder How humiliating and degrading an experience that would be.

I've only heard horror story's about the people who drive them.
Don't even start me on buses.

 

[Oklacarcollecto]

Me ride in a cab. I can't begin to ponder How humiliating and degrading an experience that would be.

I've only heard horror story's about the people who drive them.
Don't even start me on buses.

I have never rode in a cab either and no buses other than a school bus. It has always been foot power, bicycle or private car all my life.

 

[Frankie]

I have never rode in a cab either and no buses other than a school bus. It has always been foot power, bicycle or private car all my life.

If you never lived in a big city, like NYC, you've probably never known the necessity. Mass transit is so good, in NYC (Buses, taxis, trains), and parking so expensive, that a very large portion of the population in Manhattan doesn't even own a car.

The cost of owning a car in NYC is very much more expensive than almost anywhere else. Commuting via taxi or mass transit is a way of life there.

 

[ledman]

I rode in a MOPAR taxin in Las Vegas, it was a new 2013 Charger, and I dated a girl in highschool that drove a Chrysler Lebaron lol

 

[Oklacarcollecto]

If you never lived in a big city, like NYC, you've probably never known the necessity. Mass transit is so good, in NYC (Buses, taxis, trains), and parking so expensive, that a very large portion of the population in Manhattan doesn't even own a car.

The cost of owning a car in NYC is very much more expensive than almost anywhere else. Commuting via taxi or mass transit is a way of life there.

You are correct. I have never lived or been to a place where people are packed like sardines in a can. Hopefully I never will because I love space and wide open country.

 

[No name needed]

If you never lived in a big city, like NYC, you've probably never known the necessity. Mass transit is so good, in NYC (Buses, taxis, trains), and parking so expensive, that a very large portion of the population in Manhattan doesn't even own a car.

The cost of owning a car in NYC is very much more expensive than almost anywhere else. Commuting via taxi or mass transit is a way of life there.

I travel to NYC about four to six times a year.
Private limo every time.

 

[Alaskan_TA]

Mine;

 

[krazykuda]

I would think that most "retired" taxis are pretty well beat up. (I've ridden in some that you could almost feel the suspension about to fall off). I could only imagine how beat up they are when they finally retire them....


Cop cars and taxis are the two worst used cars that you can buy, along with rentals...

 

[pauly v.100]

Like this?

https://video.search.yahoo.com/vide...c=0&sigr=11a1tvdfa&sigt=10eamk1ch&age=0&&tt=b

 

[Frankie]

I travel to NYC about four to six times a year.
Private limo every time.

That's how to do it, but not everyone can afford that.

Also, that's occasional use. ;)

 

[Frankie]

I would think that most "retired" taxis are pretty well beat up. (I've ridden in some that you could almost feel the suspension about to fall off). I could only imagine how beat up they are when they finally retire them....


Cop cars and taxis are the two worst used cars that you can buy, along with rentals...

Precisely! 300,000 miles of in town driving, stop, go, potholes, fender benders, bumper to bumper traffic, hours of idling time, and people who don't give a crap about your car...

 

[67 Power Wagon]

Rani,
My grandfather did! He bought a 1977 Plymouth Volare from the Baltimore City Taxi, back in I think 1979!! That car, had a slant 6 "225" in it and ran up till 2002! (I know), I done oil changes, filters, plugs wires, you name it all normal wear and tear "tune-ups" and that car if it didn't have 400,000 miles it on it then it was OVER 400,000 miles on the Odometer! Needless to say, it wasn't a fast car, but you never had to ask yourself if you were going to get there, you know?

As far as I'm aware, that slant 6 was NEVER rebuilt, from the day it was bought at the auction, till its demise in 2002, it was factory Mopar from 1977. AND I may add here, never any real "issues" with that car either it always started, cold weather or not, went good, rode nice, and was a decent riding car....I might add here that in the license plate area it had 2 air hose connectors, these were to "pump" up the rear shocks on the car, They came with the car, I had never before seen such on a factory car... Was a nice touch tho, hauling luggage or stuff in the trunk! add more weight, pump in more air LOL

Miss that car, I wish I could have saved it now! All I got is pics of it, my Pap, and me at a young age......Pap, RIP

 

[Jarlaxle]

I drove for a livery company for 5 years...they had Mopars. Some Caravans, a bunch of big Dodge vans...and one Diplomat. It was a former NY state police car, a dark blue unmarked unit that was still in most of its police trim: steelies with poverty caps, pushbar, radio mount between the seats, "certified" 140MPH speedometer. It was retired when a head gasket popped, with about 430,000 miles on the internally-untouched 318.

My friend Dan bought it, we did the heads (both were cracked), replaced the rotted doors, stripped the body (the thing had at least six coats of paint on it), and took it to a couple of shows. It was a late-build (May, IIRC) 1989, so when getting plates, his second choice was "LASTAHB". (His first was taken.) A guy at Carlisle saw the plate and was interested...he took some pics of the car and the door VIN sticker, and made sure to get Dan's phone number.

A month later, he bought the car for almost twice what Dan had in it! Turns out his plate, unknowingly, was true: seems the dude did some research and found that, far as he can tell, that car really WAS the last AHB Diplomat!