Benson Chevrolet: A Bensonhurst icon
BY SUZANNE SPELLEN
Cars were pretty cool looking in 1933. Think Chicago mobster cars, Bonnie and Clyde, sedans with serious running boards, headlamps that were really lamps, tires with spokes and the spare attached to the side of the car — those kinds of cars, some of which were Chevrolets. They remain some of America’s best loved and most classic cars.
Chevrolet was founded back in 1911 by Louis Chevrolet and William C. Durant as direct competition to General Motors. Durant had founded and run General Motors in 1908, but had been kicked off the board of his own corporation two years later.