Corvette L-82, 1979. The optional L-82 V-8 edition has 350 horses in 'er, a higher lift cam, special heads with larger valves and higher compression, impact-extruded pistons, a forged steel crankshaft, and finned aluminum rocker covers. We found this one in Wausau. In December 1978, Car and Driver was not especially impressed with the 1979, seeing it as little changed from previous years. But, the mag acknoweldged that not many buyers cared. Here's a great quote from the mag that makes us Boomers remember the good ol' days: "They're dumping year-old Grands Prix for Corvettes so they can live out high-school dreams before their hairlines go over the horizon. And women are making up a solid 15 percent share of the audience at last count. Freshly liberated ladies who try the pick-up ritual from the driver's seat of a Corvette find it not so demeaning after all."
As a young, red-blooded American, this editor saw the curves in this Vette to be as good as in Playboy!
