The sole surviving Checker 39A escaped through a quirk of fate. It was bought by a resort in upstate New York to ferry guests to and from the railroad station, winding up in a junkyard in the 1950s. There it lay until the mid-1960s, when the owner of another wrecking yard discovered it

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