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Who Gets Car Number 1?

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I know someone who lives down the road from Jay Leno and I asked him to ask Jay if hes interested in the Tesla. I have know idea if Jay was at the intro or if Swartzegnedder will get one. I do know who has the number one car and its the guy who runs or owns the Peterson Auto Museum. He has number 1 and 100 I believe.
 
Incidentally, I've gathered from various scattered comments that 10 prototype cars have already been manufactured. Two are in California for show-and-tell promotional duties. The rest were kept in England: two for durability testing and six for crash testing. (One of those has already been crashed, it did fine.)

This gives just a hint of how hard it is to start up a car-making business. It also gives a hint of how helpful it is to work with an established, low-volume maker like Lotus Engineering.
 
At the debut I asked that question to a couple of Tesla guys. They hemmed and hawed for a few seconds and said they did not know and that would have to be worked out. They have a list of who has paid and when. The conversion ended up with even further unanswered questions. Who gets #10, # 50, #100?

I would imagine number 1 would either go to a museum of to Martin or Elon until they mothball it.
 
I keep searching for when these cars will be on the market--any dates set in stone? I see that you can order the next round, but I'm dying to see these things hit the market :eek:
 
Here's the answer:

This was from the end (of page 3) of an interview article on Yahoo:
http://autos.yahoo.com/green_center-article_141/;_ylt=ApATeP8.yvsf4LP1y2kUOOFtJNIF?p=1
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JON: Finally, which serial number did you get?

MR. EBERHARD: Oh, number two is mine.

JON: And who got number one?

MR. EBERHARD: Elon Musk, the guy who is the principal investor in the company. We actually had a bit of an arm wrestling match over who got the first one and he finally conceded that I could have it and then I gave it to him.

[Laughter]
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