The 1964 Chevy Van shipped with exactly one seat — the driver's. A front passenger seat that actually stayed bolted down was an extra-cost option.
Median 51 hp across 14 similar cars
Lead trim: Chevy Van 153 High Torque I4 (90 hp) · up to 140 hp
Chevrolet Chevy Van G10G10-1964 · 1964–1966
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FactThe 1964 Chevy Van shipped with exactly one seat — the driver's. A front passenger seat that actually stayed bolted down was an extra-cost option.
The Chevrolet van is a range of vans built by General Motors since the 1964 model year, introduced as the successor to the rear-engine Corvair Corvan/Greenbrier and adopting mechanical commonality with the Chevrolet C/K light trucks; in this first generation, released for 1964 as a compact van to replace the Corvair 95 and internally coded G-10, the half-ton van took a design closer to the Ford Econoline and Dodge A100 (sharing their 90-inch wheelbase) and moved the engine from behind the rear axle to between the front seats, the body remaining a forward-control design with the driver above the front axle. It was marketed by both Chevrolet and GMC, each with passenger and cargo variants: the Chevy-Van cargo van and Sportvan passenger van at Chevrolet, the Handi-Van and Handi-Bus at GMC. It shared its powertrains and mechanical commonality with the Chevy II, with a full-length unibody, an I-beam front suspension and much heavier-duty rear leaf springs than a sedan; against its Corvair predecessor it had a larger flat windshield, twin headlights, the grille moved above the bumper as an engine air intake, and cargo doors that extended down to the bumper. 1964 was cargo van only, with payload up to 2000 pounds, a driver seat as the only standard seat and rear cargo doors on the base version; in 1965, as Chevrolet phased out the Greenbrier, the Sportvan passenger van joined with two optional rear bench seats for eight seats in all, side windows became an option and seatbelts were no longer optional; for 1966 the inline-four was dropped from the Chevy-Van, making the 194 six standard. Transmissions were a 3-speed column-shifted manual and an optional 2-speed Powerglide. Wheelbase 90 in, length 167.5 in, width 72.8 in, height 77.3 in. The page gives no rating for the 194 six, and dates the four's end only as the change for the 1966 Chevy-Van.
Collectors Spotted in the Chevrolet Chevy Van Lineage
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Trims & Figures
3 published trims in the catalogue. A blank is a figure not recorded, not zero.
| Trim | Years | Engine | Power | Torque | 0–60 | Drive | Gearbox | MSRP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chevy Van 153 High Torque I4 (90 hp) | 1964–1965 | 2.5 L Inline-4 | 90 hp | 152 lb-ft | — | RWD | — | — |
| Chevy Van 194 High Torque I6 | 1964–1966 | 3.2 L Inline-6 | 120 hp | 177 lb-ft | — | RWD | — | — |
| Chevy Van 230 High Torque I6 (140 hp) | 1965–1966 | 3.8 L Inline-6 | 140 hp | 220 lb-ft | — | RWD | — | — |
Owning one
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Owners’ builds
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Photographs
This G-series van stayed in production for 25 straight years — one of the longest production runs of any GM platform ever built.
Adding an optional V8 to this Chevy Van meant redesigning the fuel system too — the tank grew from 16 gallons to 24.5 to keep up with the bigger engine's thirst.
The 1964 Chevy Van shipped with exactly one seat — the driver's. A front passenger seat that actually stayed bolted down was an extra-cost option.
Rivals
Same body, same money, other badges — tap any card to flip.
Chevy pitched the Astro as the anti-minivan, telling buyers life was too big for one, while it rode on a rear-wheel-drive truck frame.
The IIHS rated the Astro Poor in a 1996 crash test, yet 2001–2004 Astros later had the lowest driver death rate of any US passenger vehicle.
The boxy, unglamorous Astro quietly posted one of the best real-world safety records in America: IIHS found 2001-2004 models had the fewest driver deaths per million vehicles of any passenger vehicle on US roads.
The third-generation Tourneo Connect, released in Europe in October 2021, is a rebadged fourth-generation Volkswagen Caddy, assembled by Volkswagen in Poland.
Ford beat the 25% "chicken tax" by importing the Transit Connect as a passenger van — rear windows and seats included, then stripped out and recycled once it landed in the US.
Ford spent years in federal court over the second-gen Transit Connect: in June 2019 the US won its appeal, and judges ruled the van was cargo-only — ending Ford's workaround for the 'chicken tax.'
GM sold a rebadged Nissan NV200 as the Chevy City Express for four years, then killed it in 2018, citing weak sales and the fact that its parts weren't even compatible with GM's own parts catalog.
Its name is a pun: "S-Cargo" means "Small Cargo" but sounds just like escargot — French for snail, the shape the whole van was built to resemble.