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9/8/2013 Tour de Tesla - A Southern California Police Escorted Drive!

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IT'S NOT P...
It's 67 Mustang metallic purple, or Cadillac Lavender Mist.
"It's not a tumor!"

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Same way you get a brown Model S within the Signature Series: You get a custom paint job. There were about a half dozen people in the first thousand who were willing to pay for something other than black, silver, white, or red. The factory tried to do custom paint jobs, decided it wasn't worth the effort and quit. When the non Sig colors came out, most people could get something satisfactory and there was not as much pressure to do special colors.

Custom paint costs over $10,000. It's worth it if you want it bad enough. The pink is supposed to be sort of a Mother of Pearl pink. It is quite gorgeous.

We got Chocolate Pearl. It does not look like the Bronze that Tesla sells for brown, although it does not stand out nearly as much as the Pink.

By the way, today is our Tesla's first birthday. Still feels like a new car, still love driving or riding in it, still give test rides and talks just about every day. And we are just turning 25,000 miles. This car exceeds our expectations in so many ways.
Point of clarification. My recollection is...
1. The custom paint job cost an extra $12,000.
2. The option was never officially published.
3. The option was discontinued after some small number like 10 vehicles.

Because of #3, this is incorrect:
about a half dozen people in the first thousand
Most of the 1,200* never had the option.

* Holding my tongue on this topic for now other than listing the closest official number to what the quoted post was referring to.
 
An unauthorized release of some sneak peak photos from the air...
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And some others...
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The color on the Cadillac looks different to me. It's closer to "Pink Cadillac" than BGC, IMO.

You can't trust the color in any scanned image. This is what we first found:

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Part of the price of the custom job was that they made a "paintform" (a 12" or so car-shaped model like they used to have in the showrooms) and shipped it to us. We were quite surprised that it wasn't at all what we expected. But the deal was "Your car is in production. Take this or go back to Sig Red.". We fell in love with it pretty quickly.
 
If you liked TdT, then check this out...
4 1/2 days...
Motor 4 Toys is part car enthusiast (over 5,000 cars) & part philanthropy (nearly 50,000 toys collected for needy children)
& its FREE (well, bring an unwrapped toy valued at least $10 to donate).

Sunday December 1, 2013
Anthem Building @ Warner Center
6:30am - noon


Jay Leno introduces "TESLAsterone" at 2:00...
 
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Any word on the DVD? Or just publish to Youtube?
As the TdT cheerleader in chief, I 2nd the request to get us a DVD.
In the same way you would not blame the Houston Texans Cheerleaders for the record of the team, I too want to see that DVD!
Or at least a word on an ETA. Funny thing is, every time I see "AEdennis" from So Cal, I figure it must be someone related to Al & Ed's (A-E)! :tongue:
 
It is short for my Active E until later this month when BMW rips it out of my hands... Then it's just Accidentally Environmental, which is what 2 years of being involved in the EV culture has done to me.