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Chevrolet Step-Van
The Chevrolet Step-Van (and its Rebadging, badge-engineered counterpart, the GMC Value-Van) is a multi-stop truck made by General Motors from 1940 to 1998. Dubl-Duti The first generation of General Motors multi-stop delivery van was called the ''Dubl-Duti'', introduced in 1940. The van was built on the chassis of the Chevrolet Master#Trucks and buses, Chevrolet pickup truck, with a body built by Divco, Divco Twin. The Dubl-Duti van used the same Chevrolet Stovebolt engine#216, "Thriftmaster" six-cylinder engine as the pickup and Chevrolet passenger cars, but with a single-barrel updraft Carter Carburetor, Carter carburetor rather than the downdraft Rochester Products Division, Rochester unit used in other Chevrolet trucks. The Dubl-Duti was restyled in 1941 to suit the new Chevrolet AK Series truck body. Despite the Chevrolet Advance Design, "Advance Design" trucks being released in calendar year 1947 as a 1948 model, the AK Series-based Dubl-Duti continued production for anoth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chevrolet
Chevrolet ( ), colloquially referred to as Chevy and formally the Chevrolet Motor Division of General Motors Company, is an American automobile division of the American manufacturer General Motors (GM). Louis Chevrolet (1878–1941) and ousted General Motors founder William C. Durant (1861–1947) started the company on November 3, 1911 as the Chevrolet Motor Car Company. Durant used the Chevrolet Motor Car Company to acquire a controlling stake in General Motors with a reverse merger occurring on May 2, 1918, and propelled himself back to the GM presidency. After Durant's second ousting in 1919, Alfred Sloan, with his maxim "a car for every purse and purpose", would pick the Chevrolet brand to become the volume leader in the General Motors family, selling mainstream vehicles to compete with Henry Ford's Model T in 1919 and overtaking Ford as the best-selling car in the United States by 1929 with the Chevrolet International. Chevrolet-branded vehicles are sold in most autom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
