Factory specifications, fluid capacities, torque values, EPA fuel economy and the federal safety record for the 1964 Corvette.
The 1964 Chevrolet Corvette, with only a single owner complaint on record—focused on the wheels—and zero recalls, stands as an outlier in the model’s reliability history when measured against the complaint data from 1990 to 2025, where the highest year (2008) logged 588 complaints and the lowest (1992) still had eight. This near-flawless record places the 1964 among the most trouble-free years in the Corvette lineage, signaling that for researchers, this model year represents a benchmark of durability with minimal documented issues.
0–60 mph, quarter-mile, horsepower and torque from independent road tests.
Independent road tests for the Corvette of this era, listed by trim and engine — this page spans more than one engine, so no single horsepower figure is shown.
| Year | Trim / engine | 0–60 | ¼ mile | HP | Drivetrain |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1964 | Sting Ray Coupe 5.4L V8 | 8.00 sec | 15.20 sec | 300 hp | RWD |
| 1963 | Sting Ray Coupe 5.4L V8 | 5.90 sec | 14.90 sec | 360 hp | RWD |
| 1963 | Sting Ray Coupe 5.4L V8 | 6.00 sec | 14.40 sec | 360 hp | RWD |
| 1963 | Sting Ray Coupe 5.4L V8 | 7.20 sec | 15.50 sec | 250 hp | RWD |
| 1965 | Sting Ray Coupe 5.4L V8 | 6.20 sec | 14.90 sec | 365 hp | RWD |
| 1966 | Sting Ray 427 Convertible 7.0L V8 | 5.60 sec | 13.40 sec | 425 hp | RWD |
| 1967 | Sting Ray 427 Coupe 7.0L V8 | 4.70 sec | 13.60 sec | 435 hp | RWD |
| 1967 | Sting Ray 427 Convertible 7.0L V8 | 5.50 sec | 13.80 sec | 390 hp | RWD |
Owner-reported issues, recalls, investigations and service bulletins on record with NHTSA — an unfiltered look at what owners actually experience.
The 1964 Chevrolet Corvette shows exactly one federal complaint—categorized under Wheels—along with zero crash and zero fire complaints, yielding a minimal federal footprint. Because the provided year-by-year record spans only 1990 through 2025, the target year and its immediate neighbors do not appear, so direct before-and-after comparison is impossible within this dataset. Across that record, the Corvette line traces a clear arc: low activity in the early 1990s, a steep climb to a 588-complaint peak in 2008 and TSBs surging past one thousand, followed by a general post-2010 decline. The data does not specify a root cause for the single 1964 wheel complaint, and the supplied target-year fields reveal no broader systemic pattern. For a buyer, this means 1964 is largely unburdened by the heavy federal complaint and recall traffic documented in later decades, making it a clean-sheet candidate on paper, provided you verify condition through independent inspection rather than relying on modern federal trend data.
All 1 complaints on record, top 1 components.
Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation complaint database.
No recall campaigns on record with NHTSA for this vehicle as of the last data refresh.
The most common OBD-II codes for this vehicle's emissions system. These are standardized SAE J2012 definitions, not vehicle-specific fault reports.
Decode factory build data for a specific vehicle by VIN.
Cross-vehicle references for the kinds of data on this page.
NHTSA lists 0 recall campaign(s) for this model year. Check your specific vehicle by VIN.