Like Carroll Shelby, Steve Saleen was a racing driver before he became a manufacturer of Ford-based performance cars. Formed at Steve Saleen’s dinner table in 1983 with sketched ideas on napkins, the first three Saleen Mustangs were hand-built by Saleen Autosport in a tiny garage in Petaluma, California, the following year.
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