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Show I : : II "Milestone Car" Presented to Contest Winners ! pkV ,i ,t )i ssrl " - than 110,000 miles on their '29 car, which Weinert had purchased as a used car, at a price of $25. M. E. Coyle (left), general manager of Chevrolet, presented the new 1940 Special De Luxe model to the Weinerts. Chevrolet's production of a million units this year maintains a seven-year seven-year record of a million a year average, with the 1,000,000th 1940 car following No. 900,000 by exactly one month. The v.cll-iravelcd 1929 model has been returned to Detroit, wl.ero it will be placed on display. Presentation of Chevrolet's "Milestone Car" the 1,000,000th 1940 model produced by the industry's leader was made at the New York World's Fair last week to Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Weinert (shown here), of Iron Mountain, Mich., owners of the millionth Chevrolet six-cylinder six-cylinder model, built in 1929. The Weinerts were winners of a nation-wide contest conducted by Chevrolet to locate No. 1,000,000. As guests of Chevrolet, the Michigan couple drove to New York, arriving at the Fair vith more |