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HeilSvenska
01-09-2007, 01:28 PM
I finally went on the Saleen Factory Tour. Those with good memory will remember me saying that my friend's cousin works at Saleen (I said that years ago). Well, he worked for Radical then came back to Saleen.

So we just went around the entire factory, even in some restricted areas, engine development, etc... And we saw some mules for certain cars, quite hush hush.

Right now, Saleen's mostly busy building the Parnelli Jones Limited Edition Mustangs. The entire production line is devoted to that, as you will be able to see in the album. They're all orange, total of 501, I think? 500 production cars, one press car, and unknown number of mules.

If you're not familiar with Facebook albums, it's just a normal thumbnail gallery, no popups.

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2018426&l=4c14c&id=19905668
http://photos-071.ak.facebook.com/ip002/v56/222/101/19905668/s19905668_30439071_573.jpg (http://fullerton.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2018426&l=9c1ff&id=19905668)
TopGearNL
01-09-2007, 01:33 PM
Impressive! At least you saw parts we will be likely never be able to see! :D

No chance for a testdrive? :wink:

How big was it?
Spijker
01-09-2007, 01:34 PM
Nice photos
HeilSvenska
01-09-2007, 01:35 PM
Impressive! At least you saw parts we will be likely never be able to see! :D

No chance for a testdrive? :wink:

How big was it?

The factory's relatively small. It's as big as a regular industrial warehouse. In fact, it's a big warehouse. It has production line in one side and office/labs on the other side.
sameerrao
01-09-2007, 01:37 PM
Sharp pics .. thanks - they didnt have the race cars there?
TopGearNL
01-09-2007, 01:38 PM
Impressive! At least you saw parts we will be likely never be able to see! :D

No chance for a testdrive? :wink:

How big was it?

The factory's relatively small. It's as big as a regular industrial warehouse. In fact, it's a big warehouse. It has production line in one side and office/labs on the other side.

I see :D

Still pretty cool!
HeilSvenska
01-09-2007, 01:39 PM
They had some ex-racing cars, none of them S7R. They did have a customer S7 with a Competition pack. I dunno, they randomly have race chassis lying around somewhere. :P
ViperASR
01-09-2007, 02:32 PM
nice pics man, thanks! Must have been alot of fun going up and touring the factory. The only factory ive ever toured was a BMW factory a few years ago when they were making the Z3 and X5
stmoritzer
01-09-2007, 03:11 PM
Interesting visit, thanks for sharing

I like the orange Mustangs 8)
chest3r
01-09-2007, 09:48 PM
Pretty cool cars !!! I loved that new Mustang version. It looks great.

Too bad the pics aren't high-res, but thanks anyway!! :wink:
HeilSvenska
01-09-2007, 10:36 PM
Yeah. I couldn't be bothered with uploading high-res pics. Lol. If there's a specific one you need to see big, tell me.

Everybody see this?

http://photos-048.ak.facebook.com/ip002/v56/222/101/19905668/n19905668_30439048_3816.jpg

The Saleen Policecar "prop" from the upcoming Transformers movie.

Turns into this
http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/7251/barricadembody1280x1024ot0.th.jpg (http://img221.imageshack.us/my.php?image=barricadembody1280x1024ot0.jpg)
Zot09
01-09-2007, 11:15 PM
Nice shots dude! Thanks!

This is the factory in Irvine right? Invite me next time! lol
mit5005
01-10-2007, 01:08 AM
I wanted to go there last time I went to Cali but with no luck. Nice pics though, maybe I'll see them in person soon.