The Chevrolet/GMC B-Series is one of the GM (General Motors) entries the open record knows by name and by date — in 1966, and by little else. That is not nothing: a name in the catalogue is where a car's story starts to be recoverable.
The background
The Chevrolet/GMC B series (also known as the S-series) are a series of cowled chassis that were produced by General Motors from the 1967 to the 2003 model years. A variant of Chevrolet and GMC medium-duty trucks, the B-series was developed primarily for bus use. While primarily used for school bus applications, General Motors offered the chassis for multiple commercial and specialty uses. Like the Chevrolet P-series chassis and the Cadillac Commercial Chassis, the B-series is assembled as an incomplete vehicle for second-stage manufacturers, who produced all bodywork aft of the firewall.
Initially derived from the medium-duty C/K series, later examples used the GMT530 platform. General Motors ended production of the B-series line after 2002, with the company concentrating bus production on cutaway-cab chassis. The medium-duty GMT560 chassis was also used for bus applications, but was only produced with a cutaway cab. As of current production, General Motors still provides a platform for both school bus and commercial bus applications, derived exclusively from the GMT610 cutaway van (Chevrolet Express/GMC Savana).
Where it sits
In the GM (General Motors) line-up the Chevrolet/GMC B-Series has a clear place: it replaced the Chevrolet/GMC C/K (medium duty); it handed the line to the GMT560 (2004-2009) / Blue Bird Vision (indirect). The cars a buyer would have weighed it against include the Lamborghini Miura, the Toyota Corolla, the Dodge Charger. Its GM (General Motors) stablemates include the 1955 Chevrolet and the 1957 Chevrolet.
Owning one today
There is no federal ownership record for the Chevrolet/GMC B-Series — it predates the complaint database or was never sold in the United States — so MotorJury publishes no running-cost figure for it. For a car of this age the price is set by the collector market and the condition of the individual example, not by a formula.