Author Topic: Arunas' #517 SOLVED: Saleen Project Molly  (Read 1105 times)

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RayTheRat

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Re: Arunas' #517
« Reply #25 on: December 20, 2012, 02:33:06 PM »
Project Molly named for Steve Saleen's daughter?
Hooray! We have a winner! Point added.

Wow!  It was a wild guess, but I'll take the point!  Thank you.

I checked further and found a little more info:
"Molly-Anne Kelsea Saleen was born in Sacramento, CA and soon relocated with her family to Southern California during the early stages of her father’s legacy company Saleen, Inc. Along with her older brothers, Clint and Sean; she grew up in an automotive and racing environment which proved to be a unique and valuable experience for Molly. When she was old enough, she spent a lot of summers at racetracks around North America and Europe attending her father’s races and learning from the “ground up” about motorsports and marketing. From cleaning wheels, checking tire pressures and handing out posters, she developed her racing spirit. By the age of 15 she had the opportunity to experience everything from kart racing schools to Bob Bondurant’s School of High Performance Driving. The first car she learned to drive was a 510 HP Saleen S351, in which she took her test for her Driver’s License. Molly knew she wanted to be a part of her father’s life as an automotive pioneer.

In the early 2000’s, Molly’s father, Steve Saleen, began development on the Saleen S7. He needed a code name prior to its release and aptly named it “The Molly Project.”
The S7 has since set the benchmark for “America’s Supercar,” both on and off the track."

In the 2nd photo it appears that she's driving a NASA series stock car, many of which are ex-ASA cars, or possibly an ARCA series car, most of which are ex-NASCAR cars.
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