1958, Brussels Expo, two passenger mototaxi, Peugeot Triporteur

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10236155417725877&set=a.1617402035143

https://www.lesoir.be/sites/default/files/dpistyles_v2/ls_16_9_606w/2018/04/03/default/18972908/public/2018/04/03/B9715265620Z.1_20180403170400_000+GJ1B08E4D.2-0.jpg?itok=B82U8aTb1545356010

San Diego pedicabs have changed a lot based on this one. I heard it's 50 dollars per person

it's easy to claim that this, or any '30 GMC taxi cab is the very same car used in the classic 1946 Christmas film, it might be. I doubt there is any way to prove it

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1400359352115406&set=pcb.1400360222115319

Curbside posted another cool collection of vintage photos, these commercial vehicles

https://www.curbsideclassic.com/vintage-snapshots-and-photography/vintage-photos-of-commercial-vehicles-of-the-1950s-and-1960s/

ok, I'll bite, why is the taxi on display at the Disney Hotel New York at Disneyland Paris? The answer is lame "Since many Marvel heroes (like Spider-Man, Daredevil, Luke Cage) are New York-based, the taxi is a key visual cue for the whole "Art of Marvel" experience."

 https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=857448900266136&set=pcb.25222789357372983

https://www.thewholeworldisaplayground.com/marvel-hotel-new-york-disneyland-paris/

https://piccoloexplorer.com/hotel-new-york-art-of-marvel-review/

https://dlpreport.com/disneys-hotel-new-york-the-art-of-marvel-all-you-need-to-know/

It took a few minutes, but I finally found the connection... Spider Man speaking French (WTF?) rides to the hotel front doors on top of the taxi. 

The Muppets have never had a broadway show until now, they've been around for 50 years... and they're doing it with a taxi!

Rob Lake Magic With Special Guests the Muppets will be performing at the Broadhurst Theatre through Jan. 18.

https://ew.com/the-muppets-broadway-debut-rob-lake-first-look-exclusive-11839899

makes me think about convertible taxis... I don't believe I've ever seen one

Why a taxi? Because they had one in the movie Muppets Take Manhattan according to one movie poster

A 1929 Dodge Model DA was driven from Uruguay to California to New York, in 1967, after a lifetime as a taxi. No one builds them like that anymore.

A 1929 Dodge Model DA four-door sedan, a right-hand-drive export model, with a six-cylinder flathead engine, wire wheels, dual side-mount spares, and a trunk mounted on the rear bumper used as a taxi in Montevideo, Uruguay, was driven up the Pan-American Highway to the United States in 1967 or ’68.

after arriving in California, it was driven around the U.S. before settling in Brooklyn, New York. 

The owner painted a white map on the dark blue car, and at most major stops he added the places he visited. In New York, everyone he encountered marveled at the accomplishment. Once established in Brooklyn, he started R.S. Refrigeration & Air Conditioning Company.

https://www.hagerty.com/media/member-stories/a-lifelong-mopar-fan-still-remembers-his-dodge-da-from-uruguay/

very cool to bring an old taxi, and suitcases to sell the idea!

 https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=3677483492556322&set=pcb.2055847334824357

I don't remember Oscar having a Taxi... but, this proves my memory is shot

https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Sesame_Street

Saul Leiter, New York City streets in color

Saul Leiter took photos every day for 60 years in New York’s East Village, capturing daily life in the neighborhood where he lived for his entire adult life. Leiter was a postwar pioneer in color photography, and when he died, in 2013, he left behind at least 40,000 color slides, 15,000 black-and-white prints, and 40,000 black-and-white negatives

https://www.pressreader.com/usa/the-guardian-usa/20240205/282011857255750

https://airmail.news/arts-intel/events/saul-leiter-an-unfinished-world

https://independent-photo.com/news/the-unseen-saul-leiter/

https://www.cnn.com/style/article/saul-lieter/index.html

https://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/soleitercocacola.jpg

hailing a cab

 https://dailytimewaster.blogspot.com/2025/03/hailing-that-cab.html

interesting movie coming soon, The Accidental Getaway Driver

The names are fictional but the events are mostly real, based on a GQ article by Paul Kix, of a 2016 true-crime story, Sing L. Lee’s strong debut “The Accidental Getaway Driver” is a human-sized thriller set across several blue-black nights off the grid in Orange County. The main character is a 75-year-old unregistered taxi driver from Vietnam who scrapes together a living in the shadows, giving strangers rides in his battered beige Camry.

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2025-03-01/the-accidental-getaway-driver-review-compelling-real-life-thriller-orange-country-vietnamese

Jerry Schatzberg, Carmen Exits Taxi 1959

https://www.1stdibs.com/art/photography/portrait-photography/jerry-schatzberg-jerry-schatzberg-carmen-exits-taxi/id-a_5168851/

Anne St. Marie, Pushing Man in Cab, 1958 - Jerry Schatzberg

 

https://www.1stdibs.com/art/photography/portrait-photography/jerry-schatzberg-anne-st-marie-pushing-man-cab-1958-jerry-schatzberg/id-a_6861522/#zoomModalOpen

Zoox, an all-electric, fully autonomous ride-hail vehicle, is on the job and on the city streets of Las Vegas

one of the many toaster shaped taxis I saw at CES 2023 https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2023/01/i-dont-think-that-all-these-ridiculous.html

does anyone believe the production Tesla robotaxi is really going to be a 2 door? I'm guessing it's going to be a Model X instead

https://fordauthority.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Tesla-Robotaxi-Press-Photos-Exterior-005-side-front-three-quarters-doors-open.jpeg

https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/10/24267132/tesla-robotaxi-we-robot-autonomous-fsd-elon-musk/archives/2

https://www.standard.net.au/story/8789802/musk-unveils-cybercab-as-focus-shifts-to-automation/

Tesla is reportedly gearing up to launch its much-awaited ‘Robotaxi’ on the lot of Warner Bros Studios in Los Angeles on October 10

 https://indianexpress.com/article/technology/tech-news-technology/tesla-we-robot-event-launch-robotaxi-what-we-know-9590636/

1920's Citroen taxi, you gotta wonder how that steering worked!

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=875781607909480&set=a.415445867276392

Checker Model Y

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=7174787495876707&set=gm.3787826331440110&idorvanity=2107225159500244

Sean Penn portrays a New York City taxi driver in a new movie called "Daddio", premiering next month at the Toronto International Film Festival.

The movie takes place in a New York City taxi, on a ride from JFK to Manhattan, capturing a single  conversation.

Originally conceived as a stage play, Daddio boasts a script penned by playwright Christy Hall, who directs.

https://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/1104621-dakota-johnson-and-sean-penns-new-film-set-inside-taxi-in-nyc

Hall wrote the cabbie character with an abundance of internal paradoxes, so it wasn't difficult for her to realize that Penn's consistent on-screen complexity made him a perfect fit for the role. 

"His immeasurable talent affords him the unique ability to ride that razor's edge that we all have within us, that thin dividing line between our greatest angels and our darkest demons," Hall says. "Our cabbie needed to be both deeply charming and wildly offensive. He is vastly intelligent and shockingly base, highly evolved and stuck in his own era, has a hardened exterior and also a tender heart. I don't know anyone else in the world who could so effortlessly allow all these truths to co-exist within one unforgettable character."

https://ew.com/movies/sean-penn-dakota-johnson-daddio-first-look

Sean Penn doesn't need any intro here, but, a refresher on his career isn't out of order, he is a two-time Academy winning actor, filmmaker, and author who has frequently championed charity and volunteerism in disasters such as Katrina, and the catastrophic Haiti earthquake, and has been to Ukraine numerous times over the last two years, co-directing SUPERPOWER, a documentary capturing the “David and Goliath” struggle between President Zelensky’s Ukraine and Putin. 

As a filmmaker, Penn’s been  the Academy Award nominated, as an actor, Penn has been nominated five times for the Academy for Best Actor winning twice for MYSTIC RIVER and MILK. 

https://brilliantminds.co/speaker/2023-sean-penn/

https://www.instagram.com/teatime.pictures/

https://collider.com/daddio-movie-images-dakota-johnson-sean-penn/

https://deadline.com/2023/08/sean-penn-dakota-johnson-daddio-sag-aftra-interim-agreement-festivals-1235519951/