Who am I ?

Welcome to TAXI406.com a site dedicated to supporting the creation of replica TAXI 406 cars from the french movies called TAXI. The films star actor Sami Naceri, who is a TAXI driver named Daniel on the streets of Marseille iin France. He drives some highly modified Peugeot 406's around the city of Marseille.
My name is Jon (often known as TAXIMAN) I have been part of this and a pioneer in the replica TAXI community for over 10 years, and created my first TAXI car in late 2014. When I first started I wasnt making a TAXI as a true replica, i was making it for a charity event to make money for Cancer Research. The event involved driving the TAXI from the UK, across France into Spain ending up in Benidorm. On the run upto to the event, i documented making the TAXI by making various YouTube videos online. During the event I started to realise that as we were driving across France, that the car was attracting attention. The event was a great success and we managed to raise £1000's of pounds for Cancer Research. Upon returning to the UK, I parked the car up likely to take it to the scrap yard.

A few years later I decided to take the TAXI again on aother event and this time visit Marseille! In September 2016 i received a message from a guy called Toufik from the Northern Suburbs of Paris. He wanted after some help with his project TAXI 1 and asked if i could help supply some parts. I arranged to collect the grey leather interior for him from a car in the UK on a 900 Kms round trip and store it at my home until we could work out how to get it to france for free. I was then approached by a guy called Pascal from the North West Region of France to ask if I could collect some TSW wheels for him from a seller in the UK because he was building a TAXI2/3 replica, but this time he had a shipping solution and that was to meet a truck driver friend of his called Franc. These relationships were the start of me supplying parts into the early days of the taxi community, with many meetings with Frank to collect parts, as well as other truck drivers. Gradually overtime speaking online we started to talk about making the parts that you cant buy. I had already made many of these items in a primative way, and not so movie accurate this included the Glove Box panel for TAXI 1, The Tarrif signs and various badges for steering wheels, wheel and side doors.