San Francisco Bay Area Roadster Meet 9/11/16

[ViperDoc]

I'm sooo jealous
The nearest Roadster is 80 miles away from me.

And for some reason, I never pass your red Roadster on the road!

 

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Here are a few I took.

 

[bmah]

Thanks to those who are posting pictures...it's awesome to see so many of these gorgeous machines together.

Bruce.

 

[jasona]

Thanks Harry for organizing this fun event. I'm happy I made it out.

 

[Mark77a]

Fabulous !!
I'd love to put names or TMC Handles to all those cars

 

[ecarfan]

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To explain this photo, which shows something that likely very few Tesla fans have ever seen: Roadster owner @sclasner brought these, which are Roadster paint color and upholstery samples provided to early Roadster reservation holders before any cars were delivered. They enabled the reservation holders to decide which colors to order, since there were no Roadsters to actually look at! I think he said this was in the 2006 timeframe.

 

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[DeedWest]

The fact that there's not one...not two...but THREE Roadster 3.0's here makes my heart tingle...even more than it ALREADY IS because of these gorgeous things all in one spot. I'm jealous. Need to make it out to one of these sometime.

 

[hcsharp]

Damn you just made me drool all over my keyboard.

 

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[SpitzNV]

What a great time! Tash and I really enjoyed meeting everyone too!

 

[spiderguy]

Thanks to everyone that came out; it was great to meet more fellow Roadster owners and drive on roads together. Nice photos; definitely looks like Skittles.

 

[slcasner]

To explain this photo, which shows something that likely very few Tesla fans have ever seen: Roadster owner @sclasner brought these, which are Roadster paint color and upholstery samples provided to early Roadster reservation holders before any cars were delivered. They enabled the reservation holders to decide which colors to order, since there were no Roadsters to actually look at! I think he said this was in the 2006 timeframe.

Thanks for providing the explanation. This color selection kit was sent to the Signature 100 owners-to-be in July, 2007 when it was time to commit to the exterior and interior color choices plus the name to go on the Signature 100 plaque between the seats. The kit included 13 "supereggs" (look it up) made of some metal with significant heft and painted with the 12 standard colors plus the dark green Signature color. Each superegg was labeled with the Tesla logo and the 3-digit VIN for that owner's car, plus the color number. The idea of using a superegg rather than a flat swatch to show the color is that the curved shape would give a better representation of how the color would look on a car.

The kit also included 13 numbered cards that the owners were invited to hand out to friends, along with a superegg, to entitle the recipients to attend the grand opening of a Tesla store in Menlo Park or Los Angeles. Those grand openings did eventually happen, but the special invitation cards were not required. I expect that most of the owners kept the supereggs.

 

[Sig72]

bummed I couldn't make it. Next time!

 

[DaveD]

Were they arranged in any particular order? For instance, in VIN sequential order?

 

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[ecarfan]

Were they arranged in any particular order? For instance, in VIN sequential order?

Not by VIN.

@spiderguy arranged the cars in the beach parking lot shot in a particular way. I did not question his aesthetic sensibility, I just put my car where he wanted it.

I hope for the next group drive he can get at least 20 participants!

 

[spiderguy]

Were they arranged in any particular order? For instance, in VIN sequential order?

Believe it or not, the very first picture in post #10, was not staged. The cars came in exactly in that order, which is pretty astounding.

After viewing all these photos, I came to the realization that the Roadster looks good from every angle!