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Christopher ( Doc Sab ) Sabatino DC, was born in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn, New York, on Dec 19th 1961. He is an Italian American. He is the eldest son of Peter Sabatino and Margaret Francone. He has a brother and two sisters. He grew up in Brooklyn where he graduated from Samuel J. Tilden High School. It was there that his athletic prowess became evident. He was awarded the JFK Memorial Presidential Physical Fitness award in 1979 by his school for the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports. Later, he became successful competitive natural bodybuilding. His competitive career as an amateur bodybuilder spanned from the 1970's until the late 1990's. His most notable competition was winning the 1981 Teenage Mr America at the Dunes in Las Vegas, Nevada. Along the way he graduated college and headed West to Los Angeles to enter Chiropractic College. Christopher graduated from one of the premeir Chiropractic schools in 1989. He graduated from Cleveland Chiropractic College. He has been a practicing Doctor of Chiropractic since 1989, and is licensed to practice in the states of New York and California. His practice is geared toward the treatment of athletes and celebrities. His small practice is a "Who's - Who" of celebrities that want extremely private Doctor/Patient care. His practice is closed to the general public and patients must be referred from previous patients only. Since he was a child, friends nick named him "SAB". After becoming a Chiropractic Doctor, the nick name changed to " Doc Sab".

Doc Sab became a Stock Broker and Financial Advisor for Morgan Stanley in 2000. He was trained at the World Trade Center, and practiced in Burbank, California for 2 years. After 9-11 he decided to devote more time toward his private practice and toward his second calling.

The second calling was where he made his name. Doc Sab began to restore classic Cadillacs. He began to restore and sell his Cadillacs (after learning to appreciate cars from his grandfather Louis V. Francone as a youth) to Television and Movie Stars as well as to celebrity athletes. Doc Sab's Cadillacs have been used in countless music videos, Television shows and movies. He has acted as a consult for car props in the television industry and the Film industry. To own one of Doc Sab's Cadillacs in Hollywood, California was the "IN" thing. The first notable celebrity was David Charvet of Bay Watch Fame. Then, Robert Pastorelli of "Murphy Brown" the TV series, purchased a Classic 1960 Cadillac and went on "The Tonight Show" to talk about his Doc Sab restored Cadillac to Jay Leno. From there, the celebrity "IN" crowd buzzed about owning classic Cadillacs. This started a resurgence in the Cadillac name plate in the Hollywood area which helped lead to a resurgence of the Cadillac name plate with the younger crowd Nationally. Many Celebrities were shown driving classic Cadillacs, and this added a bit of "coolness" to the name plate.
Christopher "Doc Sab" Sabatino DC, was asked to be a part of a Cadillac focus group. It was here that many of the thoughts about converging the old and new Cadillacs together began life.
In 1999, Doc Sab's 1959 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz Convertible ( formerly owned by actor Jack Palance) was used in the "Drive The Dream" ad campaign, which included television commercials and print ads. Doc Sab also had one of his 1959 Cadillacs sold to Oakley Sun Glasses, who presented the car as a gift to Dennis Rodman, the famous Basketball star of the Chicago Bulls and the Los Angeles Lakers.Doc Sab also has worked on classic Cadillacs for mega stars, such as Nic Cage.

Doc Sab has created many custom Cadillacs, most notably, the ultimate custom 1960 Cadillac called "DIABOLICAL PURPLE". This Cadillac was the first classic Cadillac to sport 20 inch wheels, air suspension and flame throwers. It was 10 years ahead of it's time. Doc Sab worked on his car at George Barris Studio Customs in Hollywood. It was the last Custom car to come out of the Barris Studios of the 20th century. George Barris even guilded the Cadillac with one of his Barris Kustoms Badges. Shortly after completion, It won the Mercedes Benz Beverly Hills Car Show and concourse event in the custom division. This event is easily one of the most prominent West Coast Car shows. There, many celebrities wanted to buy it that day, but Doc Sab was asked if he would place it in "The Petersen Automotive Museum". Doc Sab's "DIABOLICAL PURPLE" was shown at the Petersen for 3 months. After winning 7 straight car shows. Doc Sab sold "DIABOLICAL PURPLE" to Extreme Sports multi World Champion, Sean Palmer.

Doc Sab has one of the largest Cadillac Websites on the planet called http://CadillacWorld.net . There you can see fun "Webisodes" featuring Doc Sab. On the site, you can also see hundreds of restored cadillacs that he's done. Christopher "Doc Sab" Sabatino DC is also the founder and President of The "SKYSCRAPERS" International Car Club. This Classic Car Club is devoted to any classic Cadillac or Classic make car that has a "Fin" on it's rear aspect. You can visit the car club which has it's own on-line magazine at http://www.cadillacworld.net/skyscrapers.html









References

Muscle Memory http://www.musclememory.com/

Barris Kustom City 818.984.1314 / 323.877.2352

Morgan Stanley New York (World Headquarters)

Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated
1585 Broadway
New York, NY 10036
Tel: 1 212 761 4000

Beverly Hills Mercedes Benz

9250 Beverly Blvd
Beverly Hills CA 90210
310-659-2980

The Petersen Automotive Museum

6060 Wilshire Blvd
Los Angeles CA 90036
323-930-CARS

Oakley United States of America

1 Icon
Foothill Ranch, CA 92610

Cleveland Chiropractic College of Los Angeles

http://www.clevelandchiropractic.edu/