I bought my first saleen in 1999 and drove it from Los Angeles to Michigan on a fishing & bike racing odyssey. You would not believe the attention it got, even though I got smoked by an acura legend on a lonely road north of Duluth at 2am.

I have just hauled home a Saleen Fox that was laying around here in sf last week. You will not be seeing these just laying around deteriorating any longer. I feel like I got the last one. They will be such a hot commodity when the current high school crowd grows up. Young people love the foxes, it’s their generation that will adore them. They even let them in the kung fu honda shows. That’s where the ladies are. If you’ve never been to hot import nights, it’s worth a gander.

These are the Shelby’s of the future. No longer do folks ask me what it is, they just want to know if it’s a real Saleen. If you say it’s horrible to look at and are all bummed out, cheer up buttercup, there are plenty of cars to love out there. You’ll find one to love if your heart is open. These are so reliable and can take a beating like Bruce Lee whipped Chuck Norris. Ask me how I know? I was hitting clover leaf burnouts in the 90′s. These early cars don’t hold a candle to Steve’s later masterpieces, the year 2000 version felt like the whole car would tingle when the supercharger came on. Maybe it was just me… talk about a rocket!

What else is good in this timeframe on the American side of things? There is a handful of doozies, but the automotive cup was pretty much mosquito larva and algae right then. To make these cars, Saleen bought a bunch of mustangs direct from Ford, took em to his house, put on some bitchin ground effects & graphics, ronal wheels, race craft suspension, flofit seats, momo wheel, cool gauges and.. does this story sound familiar? In the famous words of young mc, “Don’t just stand there, bust a move!”

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