Flashback: Glassbacks Can't Win

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In our last Flashback, which was also our first, we set the time machine to April 1979 and watched the “Disco” C3 Corvette lose a comparison test after winning on track. Two and a half years later, in December 1981, Car and Driver lined the 1981 model up against an all-new cast of challengers.

The good news: This 1981 model, tested deep into the model ye…