Chevrolet Step-Van

The Chevrolet Step-Van, sold in a badge-engineered form as the GMC Value-Van, is a multi-stop delivery truck that General Motors made from 1940 to 1998. It grew out of the Dubl-Duti van of 1940, built on the Chevrolet pickup chassis with a body by Divco Twin, and from 1955 it became a forward-control chassis that outside coachbuilders fitted with van bodies. From 1958 General Motors sold its own steel bodies on that chassis, installed by the Union City Body Company, and called the vans Step-Van. Variants included the short Step-Van 7 of 1961, popular as an ice cream van in the United States, and the square-fronted Step-Van King from 1964, which stayed in production until GM sold the Union City plant in 1998.