Between the two of them, Wayne and Kevin Bennin have owned their grandfather’s 1939 Chevrolet even longer than he did. But to them, the little black sedan will always be “Grandpa’s Chevy.”
August Langenhahn, a carpenter from the small town of Kiel, Wis., ponied up about $800 back in 1939 for a new Chevrolet Master 85 two-door town sedan. The car wasn’t fancy by any means — it was jet black, with no options other than a heater to help him and his family survive the cold Wisconsin winters.
Langenhahn was just a week shy of 90 years old when he passed, and the ’39 Chevy was still his everyday car up until his final years. “This was his daily driver. He had an Essex before this and this was the only car he had until he quit driving it,” noted Wayne Bennin, who now owns the Chevy.
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