1979 Chevrolet Corvette â?" 350ci V8, 4-Speed Manual, T-Tops, Corvette Red Why This Car Is Special The 1979 Chevrolet Corvette holds a production record that still stands today. Chevrolet built 53,807 Corvettes that model year, making it the highest-volume production year in the nameplate's history up to that point. That number has never been surpassed. The C3 generation was in the final stretch of its 15-year run, and by 1979 Chevrolet had refined the formula considerably â?" the body was fully restyled from the 1978 redesign, the interior was improved with features borrowed from the pace car edition the year prior, and the standard equipment list grew longer than it had ever been.
