Chevrolet Task Force

Chevrolet Task Force Series
Chevrolet Task Force Series
	1956 Chevrolet Task Force (3100)
Overview
Manufacturer	Chevrolet (General Motors)
Also called	Task-Force ; Apache ; Cameo/Cameo Carrier ; Suburban ; Viking (medium-duty) ; Spartan (heavy-duty); GMC Blue Chip Series
Production	1955–1959
Assembly	(main Chevrolet plant); Flint Truck Assembly, (Flint, Michigan); (branch assembly); Baltimore Assembly, (Baltimore, Maryland); Janesville, Wisconsin, (Janesville Assembly); Lakewood Assembly, Lakewood Heights, Atlanta, Georgia; Leeds Assembly, Leeds, Kansas City, Missouri; Norwood Assembly, Norwood, Ohio; Oakland, California, (Oakland Assembly) (Chevrolet and GMC); Pontiac West Assembly (Pontiac, Michigan) (GMC only); St. Louis Truck Assembly, (St. Louis, Missouri); North Tarrytown Assembly, North Tarrytown, New York; Van Nuys Assembly (Van Nuys, California); Oshawa Truck Assembly (original location) (Oshawa, Ontario, Canada); GM Argentina (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Body and chassis
Class	Pickup truck, commercial truck
Body style	2-door truck
Layout	Front engine, rear-wheel drive / four-wheel drive
Platform	GM A platform
Powertrain
Engine	235 cu in (3.9 L) Thriftmaster I6; 261 cu in (4.3 L) Jobmaster I6; 265 cu in (4.3 L) Taskmaster V8; 283 cu in (4.6 L) Taskmaster V8; 322 cu in (5.3 L) Loadmaster V8; 348 cu in (5.7 L) Loadmaster V8;
Transmission	3-speed manual; 4-speed manual; 4-speed Hydra-Matic automatic
Dimensions
Wheelbase	114.0 in (2,896 mm) ; 123.0 in (3,124 mm) ; 172.0 in (4,369 mm)
Chronology
Predecessor	Chevrolet Advance Design
Successor	C/K Series

The Chevrolet Task Force (or in some cases, Task-Force) is a light and medium-duty truck series by Chevrolet, their first major redesign since 1947. Its GMC counterpart was the Blue Chip series. It was billed as being more stylish compared to the earlier Advance Design Series while still maintaining its rugged durability. First available on March 25, 1955, these trucks were sold with various minor changes over the years until 1959, when the C/K Series trucks replaced the Task Force models for 1960.

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