Selected generation models, including overseas specifications
Vehicle details
Introduced in 1949, the Styleline belonged to the new passenger-car range that replaced Chevrolet’s carried-over prewar body design. Front fenders blended into the doors, and a wider passenger compartment moved forward within a lower, more unified shape. This open body combined a folding soft top and two doors with seating for five. It provided front and rear accommodation and a separate rear luggage compartment while allowing open-air driving. Its 1949 Thrift Master engine was a 216.5-cubic-inch overhead-valve inline-six rated at 90 gross horsepower. A steering-column lever operated the three-speed manual transmission, which drove the rear wheels. The shared powertrain served multiple bodies for family transport and personal-car use. Special and De Luxe equipment levels differed in trim and interior appointments, separately from the underlying body distinctions. The convertible height is specified unloaded with the top raised. This body family played an important role in establishing Chevrolet’s postwar passenger-car design.
- Production years
- 1949–
- Illustrated model year
- 1949
- Body
- Convertible
- Powertrain
- Petrol
216.5 cu in inline-six manual · 1949 US
- Development / body code
- 2134
- Powertrain
- Petrol
- Displacement
- 216.5 cu in
- Length
- 196-15/16 in
- Width
- 73-15/16 in, maximum body width
- Height
- 64-1/16 in, unloaded over roof
- Wheelbase
- 115 in
- Engine
- Thrift Master overhead-valve inline-six
- Maximum power
- 90 gross bhp @ 3300 rpm
- Maximum torque
- 174 gross lb-ft @ 1200–2000 rpm
- Transmission
- Column-shift 3-speed manual
- Drivetrain
- Rear-wheel drive
- Seating capacity
- 5
- Compression ratio
- 6.6:1