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Roadster VIN list
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Yeah, I know some of the history of Sig#5 (original owner, etc.)
As I recall, he wasn't even planning to buy a Roadster and he took over someone else's cancelled order.
Then Pete had it when the big fire happened, I think it was spared because he happened to be driving it when his warehouse burned down.
Is Dr No. the owner of VP26, and wanting to confirm it was the very first Fusion Red? Somehow DeedWest seems to know.
DeedWest
2008 VP & 2011 2.5 Sport
Upon further research, I stand corrected.
Signature 5 should be early September 2008, and VP26 is oddly around December. This would coincide with the stories I’ve heard of some of the late VPs being utilized for upgrade testing and less of the endurance testing the 2007 VPs were utilized for.
However, my VP24’s date is September 23, 2008. Similarly, the Signature 100 I garage is November 12, 2008. These things are all over the place in sequence...as expected.
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#5's widow was at NDEW in Long Beach with the Tesla Owners Club of Orange County
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The purpose for VPs changed over time.
At first they really were "validation prototypes" so Tesla could see new features and make sure things worked before ordering those things on real customers cars (although many VPs eventually ended up being sold to customers anyways.)
But later VPs were more like "marketing cars". They wanted to have Roadsters to loan to press, use for photo-ops, etc. So more VPs were ordered in a scattered fashion for whatever reason (store test drive cars, etc.)
For those not familiar with the original Roadster, Tesla was basically having Lotus do contract manufacturing of the "gliders", and most of Tesla engineering was in USA far from the Lotus UK factory. So the EPs and VPs were important for Tesla engineering (and QA & Marketing) to see "what they got" when they asked Lotus to change something on the production line. It could even be little things like to see what new seat materials looked like, or check new clear coat carbon fiber bodywork options.
At first they really were "validation prototypes" so Tesla could see new features and make sure things worked before ordering those things on real customers cars (although many VPs eventually ended up being sold to customers anyways.)
But later VPs were more like "marketing cars". They wanted to have Roadsters to loan to press, use for photo-ops, etc. So more VPs were ordered in a scattered fashion for whatever reason (store test drive cars, etc.)
For those not familiar with the original Roadster, Tesla was basically having Lotus do contract manufacturing of the "gliders", and most of Tesla engineering was in USA far from the Lotus UK factory. So the EPs and VPs were important for Tesla engineering (and QA & Marketing) to see "what they got" when they asked Lotus to change something on the production line. It could even be little things like to see what new seat materials looked like, or check new clear coat carbon fiber bodywork options.
S-2000 Roadster
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Still a tremendous amount of manual searching in past years. The scripts were a good place to start to help figure out likely VINs, but I spent many a day just typing VINs into Google to see what would come up.
I did try to automate searching through Google, but they don't like that, and would temporarily ban my IP when their servers detected a script was generating search requests.
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