Actually, the Corvette was something of a modern automotive mystery as to why it even survived, let alone flourish, at least from a sales perspective. By ‘74, “performance” was a dirty four-letter word in Detroit. People were selling off their muscle cars for pennies on the dollar for Pintos, Vegas, and Toyotas. Car makers were quickly dropping their once darling muscle cars for econo-box-cars.
But for some reason, Corvette sales steadily climbed. The 1979 Corvette hit an all-time sale record of 53,807 units, the highest one year sales figure in the Corvette’s entire history. At the sale time that sales were going up, performance was going down. The absolute low point was the 1980 California-only 305 passenger engine Corvette. About the best thing you can say is that from there, things could only get better.
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