June offered a handy cheat sheet for playing the numbers game with Corvette carburetors, and featured Motion Performance's Joel Rosen and his own personal 1970 Phase III GT. The August issue featured the third annual Salute to Corvette Ladies, with a special three-page article on the "First Lady of the Corvette," Elfi Duntov, in addition to eight pages of female VETTE readers and their rides. 1993 was the first of five years that Bloomington Gold would be held at Springfield, Illinois, as opposed to Bloomington. Despite far-better facilities in Springfield, popular sentiment stayed with Bloomington, and the Gold would return home in 1998. In the November, the Corvette versus the World Shootout continued, this time pitting the venerable LT1 against Toyota's new Supra Turbo. As usual, the VETTE crew cannot come to any definitive conclusion other than both are good sports cars with their own qualities. December included such treasures as Duntov's late-1954 letter to the GM powers-that-be that saved the Corvette.
1994This is a year of extremes. The magazine is packed with aftermarket tuner C4's and their radically rebodied Corvettes, with high-horse motors and astronomical price tags in the six-figures. John Greenwood's G350sc is on the cover of the January 1994 (Vol. 18, No. 1) issue. It is followed the next month by the Jaguar-inspired styling of the Lister Corvette. June's cover car, a Callaway speedster with 403 turbo-charged horsepower, represents the end of Callaway's B2K factory turbo option. June also took a peek at revisions to RPO Z07, the adjustable suspension package, which was slowly catching on. July's over-the-top modified Corvette was a ZR-1 limousine with an eight-foot-plus stretch job. August included the Annual Corvette Ladies Salute, and a second Lister Corvette appears both in the book and on the cover within six months. VETTE's Motorsports Editor, Kim Baker, won the unlimited class of the Nevada 100 Open Road in his 750hp '93 ZR1. He averaged 179 mph, which won him the championship, but not the course record he wanted. November tried to guess what the C5 Corvette would look like, but the sketches missed the mark. With the benefit of hindsight, the drawings more closely resemble a slightly stylized '99 Camaro Z28 than a C5. Oh, well. In December, VETTE came back to reality and presented a look at the 405-horse '95 ZR-1.