The wildly painted, real-deal 1953 Chevrolet Corvette that wore the license plate “INTHE6S” was the stuff of legends for a young teenager who spent more than his fair share of time watching racing on TNN. Rod Saboury’s Corvette doesn’t need an introduction…this was one of the baddest door cars around, the first car to run in the six-second range on DOT-approved tires, a sixty-foot monster with Saboury ripping at the Lenco shifters down the track, one of the first cars wearing license plates of any kind that I ever saw with horsepower in the thousands, courtesy of a Sonny Leonard mill. It might have been stretched five inches in the nose just for stability’s sake, but you knew that this was a 1953 Corvette. There was no guessing about the car whatsoever…you knew whose car it was, and you knew what, exactly, it was going to do when it rolled into the burnout box. Saboury sold the car in the late 1990s to fund a twin-turbocharged Pontiac Firebird Pro Street car and bought it back a couple of years ago with plans of putting it on the street. Seeing the Corvette cruising around town would be awesome, but we can’t help but remember when this thing was the car to worry about on the strip. This was the one that teenage me was rooting for as I laid out on the couch munching on cereal on Saturday mornings.
I remember him and his Vette also. It was a huge deal back then that he used a real 53 for a RACE CAR. I also remember ,he left the line at an idle . I read were he regularly drove back and forth to work.If someone did that to a real 53 today ,they would get death threats.Those penile extension drivers are kinda touchy that way
If I remember correctly the car had been wrecked and was beyond repair to keep it original ? As far as I’m concerned he saved this car from probably being crushed. It was a true badass at the time.