- I did just get reached out to somebody this week
that is a silicon valley executive.
They want this car.
They want this car, this is a rare car,
they wanna have it in their collection of cars,
and they're willing to pay me a lot more
than what I originally paid for this.
So should I sell this car?
(epic music)
I think people are starting to see
the historical significance of this car, that there's one
in space and this launched the entire company.
I need to apologize to you, because it's been
about four months since I did a Roadster update
on my red Roadster.
This looks like the next-gen Roadster behind me,
but it's not, it's an Acura.
I'm currently at Luxe Auto Spa.
We've come here so many times for so many different videos,
wrapping our cars different colors,
putting paint protection on there, painting the calipers,
racing the Teslas as fast as we can go.
You know Cougar, they've had my car for a few months now,
and they've been doing some work on it.
I'm not sure what the title of this video is,
but there's a chance it's, should I sell this red Roadster?
It sounds crazy, I've had it at my house literally
for less than a week and I might need to sell it.
But I'll explain that later.
Let's go see the car.
Luxe Auto Spa, there's the man right there, Cougar himself.
- Long time no see.
- [Host] It's been a long time, Corona fist bump.
- Yep, Corona fist bump. (host laughs)
- [Host] Look at this car, whoa.
I always get so distracted when I'm in here!
This is a Porsche something.
You always have the nice cars.
Could this beat the next gen Roadster, you think,
when that thing comes out?
- Around the track, yes, no definitely not
in the straight line though.
- [Host] All right, it's time to see the Roadster.
It's been a long time, I hope it still runs and--
- It still runs, she's fully charged for you,
little bit shinier than usual.
- Okay. - What do you think?
- There it is, red Roadster, I've missed it.
Don't be confused by this orange color up here,
this is Tesla red right here.
Wow, that looks so clean.
I think we need a nice little montage of B-roll
to epic music, because it looks so good.
(electronic music)
This car had the original paint on it,
has less than 10,000 miles, this is one
of the last 20 Roadsters ever made.
It has every single option that you could get
on a Tesla Roadster, there weren't that many
that got all of the options.
It's a sport package and it even has an entirely new
battery pack, so the latest of batteries.
All right Cougar, explain, what have you done to this car?
- We put our new XPEL film, this is actually a 10 mil film.
Most films are between seven and eight mil, this is a
10 mil film, it is just super super glossy, super shiny.
- 'Cause this thing rides super low to the ground
and there's tons of rocks that come up and just hit it
all the time, so if you're going to have
an original Roadster, paint protection, ceramic coating,
it's definitely something that you would do if you're ever
gonna drive this thing on the road, which, if you have one,
you might as well drive it.
- And then we did our Xpel ceramic film, we know how hot
it is down there in St. George, so made sure not only
the windshield was done, but all your side windows
were done as well.
- [Host] Wait a second, so this is tinted?
- [Cougar] That's tinted, yep.
- [Host] Tinted, tinted.
- [Cougar] And even your little back one,
there's not much there.
- [Host] (laughs) The little one's tinted.
- But that's taken care of as well.
- [Host] That is awesome.
- On the inside, going through, we got it detailed up,
you know, it's always good, even though the car
didn't have a lot of miles on it, it's always good
to detail it up, make sure it's fresh.
- [Host] I feel like we need
to take the top off of this thing.
- Should we?
(funky music)
- Okay, so the top is off, and check this out.
It has such dark tinted windows that I would still have
some privacy even with the top off.
This car was in good shape when I got it,
but it looks so much better right now.
It looks like it's brand new.
- We also put our Modesta leather coating,
it's an awesome, awesome product.
Keeps it protected for years to come.
- Not just the interior but the exterior, it is so shiny.
Like when I move, I can see the reflection of all
of the lights and windows inside the Tesla logo,
on the paint, it's kinda one of those things where
it's like, do I really wanna drive this outside or not?
I don't really feel like I want to.
(groovy music)
- Betty Boop. - Betty Boop.
Well, I gotta get this off here.
Let's get the, oh.
I always forget how small these things are.
Oh my gosh.
This is so much cleaner than my blue car
and so much more comfortable.
It's funny, I love the blue car, but it's an older model.
The seats were retrofitted afterward, where these seats
were made specifically for this.
The stereo sometimes gets a little close to my knee
in the blue one, this one just has more room in it.
This right here is carbon fiber,
this is carbon fiber, and this is black.
That's different, right?
- Yeah so, unfortunately, the top piece, it wasn't,
it didn't have paint protection film on the entire thing,
and there was some, in the original resin it started getting
a little milky, we tried a bunch of things to save it,
unfortunately we weren't able to save it.
All the vinyl carbon fibers, anything like that,
it just doesn't look great, especially
against this carbon fiber weave, so we put
this black paint protection film on it for the time being
until we can kinda get that sorted out.
- It looks okay for now, like it kinda matches
the blue Roadster, I kinda like the carbon fiber look.
They couldn't save it.
There's a guy up in Washington, he has a shop,
Carl Medlock, and he's actually making the carbon fiber
pieces and replacements, so Carl, if you're watching
this video, let's hook up on this and see if we can get
a piece for this, and maybe we can replace this piece,
'cause I do want a carbon fiber piece on there.
I think that'd be really nice.
- This entire car was custom, the older kits
for these cars just aren't great.
Hidden edges, see all these edges right here,
you can't even see the edge of the film.
These guys are true, true craftsmen.
- This car, we questioned whether to buy it,
'cause we have one Roadster, why would you buy another one?
But it was too hard to pass up because this is such
a unique car, and it was in such killer condition.
I feel like for the history of Tesla, we had to have
this car and had to own it, or at least put it
in a good home so that it's taken care of.
Should I sell this car?
That sounds like such a ridiculous thing, we barely just got
all of this work done to it, it's in the best shape ever.
I bought it thinking that I would get the next gen Roadster
and this would be a companion to the red Roadster
when I get it.
- Will be available in 2020.
- Well I don't know if you saw the news, but Elon
announced in Joe Rogan's podcast that the new Roadster
isn't gonna come out until after the Cybertruck.
- When am I gonna be able to buy one of them Roadsters?
When's that happening?
- This COVID thing is kinda throwing us for a loop.
- I'm sure.
- Not to blame everything on COVID, but the things
we're gonna get done ahead of Roadster are wrapping up
Model Y production, getting the Berlin Gigafactory built,
expanding the Shanghai factory, which is going great,
Cybertruck, Semi truck, Roadster's kinda like desert.
- After the Cybertruck, and the Cybertruck is gonna come out
supposedly in 2021, that pushes the next-gen Roadster
to 2022, and if you look at Elon time,
that's gonna be more like 2023.
We're talking five-year difference from when he first
announced the Roadster at the event, and I rode in the car,
and it was so dang fast.
- [Driver] Two, one.
(host yells)
- So if somebody wants a Tesla Roadster, they're gonna have
to wait 'till 2023, or they need to buy one
of the original Roadsters.
They only made around 1400 of these in the United States.
Some of the people have been telling me that probably 400
of them have crashed and are just completely off
of the roads, or the battery died
and they just junkyard-ed them,
so realistically there's probably seven or 800
of these Roadsters that are out there,
and when it comes to the Roadster Sport,
they only made a few hundred of those, and when it comes
to the Roadster Sport that is in the red color,
that has the updated battery pack, that has every single
option and less than 10,000 miles and still operates,
this is a rare version of an already rare car.
And so I think the value is gonna go up a lot.
I wasn't planning on selling it, and I'm still
not really fully planning on selling it yet,
but the values are going up, Tesla is becoming more
and more popular as a car manufacturer, and I think people
are starting to see the historical significance of this car,
that there's one in space, and this launched
the entire company.
So I have a really tough decision to make.
It made it even harder when I come up here and I see
all the beautiful work that Cougar from Luxe Automotive did
to this car, how can I not have this in my garage?
And maybe I hold onto it for another two years,
three years, when the next-gen Roadster comes out,
and the value of this could go up double or triple.
So, tough decision, I'm not ready to make the decision
right now, I took some pictures, I'm gonna send them
to the person that is thinking about buying this,
that made me the very generous offer, and he's gonna
come back and tell me whether he is still interested
in it or not, and then I have to make that decision,
whether I'm gonna sell it or not.
The other factor to consider is that we still are kind of
in the midst of a pandemic, like, we really are.
Things seem to be coming back to normal,
but what's gonna happen in the fall?
Are we gonna have another downturn in the economy?
I'd rather have some cash in the bank
than have too many cars sitting in my garage.
Not a fun decision, but I've gotta make it,
and I've gotta make it soon.
Uh, I love this car.
I've been following Cougar on Instagram for a few years now,
and he just started doing something that I think is awesome.
It's called Walkthrough Wednesdays, and every Wednesday
he walks through and he shows us all the projects
and the things that they're working on.
Right now, we're gonna do a little walkthrough,
what's inside. - Is that what we're doing?
- Got this green lookin' car with a snake on the front
of it, car people are like, "that's a Mustang Cobra Shelby,
something," I don't know what it is.
- GT500. - GT500?
- The latest and greatest, right here, Mustang.
- [Host] Oh okay, so it is a cool car.
- So he's getting ready to prep the panels so we make sure
there's no dust contaminants, you just saw Misa,
he was spraying himself down, making sure nothing transfers
from himself to the film.
- I can't even build a chair from Ikea,
and these guys are over here putting this sticky stuff
on these cars, they can't have any dust, it has to be
on there perfect, and then it adheres to it.
Pretty much my worst nightmare right there.
I couldn't do his job, I couldn't be a nurse,
there's a few jobs that I know I could never do.
But I'm grateful for the people that do it
and are pros at it.
- This is a fun project, this what they call a Ferrari SF.
This was introduced for Ferrari, and it's kinda like
Ferrari's daily driver, it's actually all wheel drive,
so a lot of people use these as their winter cars,
with it being all wheel drive, and you see these
with a lot more miles, usually, than a normal Ferrari.
We got this bike in, this is actually a satin paint.
Satin paints are really important to protect,
because if you scratch a satin paint, there is almost
no way you're ever gonna match it.
We're gonna be doing our satin paint protection film
over the top of it.
This is a little Porsche that we've actually been doing
a restoration for a client, so this has been
a couple-year restoration.
This car was like, brown, like the
worst kind of brown possible.
Super cool, now it's called tangerine orange,
we made it an RS clone, a little kinda like
outlaw car with it, all custom.
- [Host] Ooh, look at those seats, that is cool.
- [Cougar] Aftermarket interior, leather-wrapped everything.
- [Host] This is the only car that's as small
as my car in here. - Yeah, this is pretty small.
We have this new Supra, and it came in this,
this is the stock color, we did this really cool
Avery Dennison, it's like color shift,
kinda blue to purple. - Oh my gosh.
- It even goes to brown if you look at the top of the roof.
- [Host] Look at that, that is crazy.
It's all the same color?
- [Cougar] Yep.
We call it color shift.
- [Host] This is a big car, what, 825 horsepower?
- That's like, over nine.
It's been at Petty's Garage back east for two years,
and it's got over 900 horsepower now.
He actually built this for Limitless.
He's gunning in this car for over 200.
(host laughs)
For you NASCAR fans, Petty signed it all over the place.
- [Host] What, look at that.
It has an actual roll cage inside of it.
Petty's Garage.
- This is kind of our staging area.
Another full-body wrap, we just sourced this
for a client, as you know, we're selling cars now.
The 997 GT3, really cool, it's the triple white,
white exterior, white wheels, red deviated stitching,
and then all the white.
He's wanting to switch it up a little bit,
we're actually doing a black stripe, we're gonna do
a black roof, different wheels and exhaust on this.
This little Porsche is in for some paint protection film,
and last but not least, we just pulled this car out
of California, the Lamborghini Urus, I don't know
if you've seen one of these, they're pretty wild,
it's about just over 200,000 dollar, they go actually
mid twos to 300,000 dollar SUV,
(host laughs)
and Maudy's getting it all cleaned up.
- [Host] I've seen a few, there's a few YouTubers
that actually have this car. - Yeah, they're pretty wild.
- In California.
There's a little sneak peak of what you get
on Walkthrough Wednesday, Luxe Automotive's Instagram.
Seriously, check it out, you're gonna see new things
every single week.
As my car has been up here, I've probably seen it in three
different Walkthrough Wednesdays, just in the background.
Most of the time it's like, in the back corner,
and all of the wheels are off, and I'm like, okay.
It doesn't have any wheels, that's good, they must
be doing something cool to it.
The last two years, we've raced
in the Limitless Kars4Kids Shootout,
and I was hoping to drive this in here.
That's why we've been getting it all prepped,
that's why we're in May right now, the event is like what,
June 27th? - 27th, yeah.
- June 27th is Limitless, so if I don't sell this car,
I will be at Limitless this year racing this car.
Considering everything that's going on with like, the
pandemic and all that, you're still gonna have Limitless?
- Yeah, luckily we're set with it, we got the go ahead
for Limitless, it's gonna be a driver-only event this year.
Last year we were able to raise 76,000 to our beneficiary,
which is Make-A-Wish, and there's actually a lot
of custom-built cars made just for this year's event.
Make sure you check that out.
- Yeah, like Richard Petty, he's got his car comin' in here
that's all autographed, Richard Petty, I'm taking you down.
This Roadster here is taking you down, let's bring it.
Bring your car, you've been working for two years.
You sell cars now, so what's your opinion?
Should I sell this Roadster at a 30% profit,
or should I hold onto it for longer for more of a profit
and enjoy the car?
- At least enjoy the car.
Money in hand, that's tough, but I think it's something
so unique, one of the last 15, the sport, all the extras,
I think this thing's loaded.
I think you're gonna do better on long term,
but you know, it could go either way, you never know.
- He said it in a really nice way, but he says,
don't sell the Tesla Roadster.
Genuinely, tell me your feedback, 'cause I'm putting
this video out before we make the decision,
so I wanna know your feedback.
Should I hold onto this, potentially make some more money
on it down the road, or should I be conservative, sell it,
take the money and put it aside?
If there are any other Tesla Roadster owners, I don't care
if you live in Texas, in Arizona, in Vermont,
if you wanna come out and race your Roadster in this event,
or I even race my Model X.
If you wanna max out your Model X, your Model Y,
it doesn't have to be a 300,000 car that you're using
in Limitless, it's just, do you want the opportunity
to drive for two and a half miles, with police there,
radar-ing you, just to give you a high-five
'cause you go fast, and it supports a good cause, come out.
I'm gonna be out there for sure in the blue Roadster
or the red Roadster, so we'll put a link in the description
so that you guys can come and drive your cars,
and there's only a few spots left to enter your car,
or if you just wanna watch us race, there will
be a live portion of this, and we're gonna put a link
in the description so that you can find it
and you can be a part of it, maybe even donate,
it's for a good cause too.
Luxe Automotive, killed it with this car again.
I think it's funny that I found this place off
of just painting my calipers red and saving a little bit
of money, and now this like the fifth car that we've
brought here to get worked on and it looks so good.
(electronic music fades)
I only had it at my house for like, four days, that's it.
I drove it from Las Vegas to Southern Utah and I drove it
around a couple times, but other than that, that's it.
This car, I have not even driven it and I might sell it.
Why are you selling it, isn't this your baby?
- That's my Betty, Betty Boop.
- [Host] Betty Boop.