- You know if you've watched my videos
that I bought this in anticipation
for the 2020 Tesla Roadster,
the refreshed Roadster that was coming out.
But randomly, Elon Musk last night went on a Twitter rampage
and talked all about the next generation Roadster.
So it's real, it's happening,
but am I getting a free one?
I'm gonna talk about that later in the video.
But first, let's look at what are the coolest old Roadsters
that you can buy right now?
This is Medlock and Sons.
It is up in Seattle, Washington,
and this is the best shop in the world
to get your Tesla Roadster fixed.
(upbeat music)
And when I say get your Tesla Roadster fixed,
I mean, this car is literally rear-ended
and smashed by like a cement truck or something.
(laughs) Look at it, this is a Roadster right here.
It's actually amazing in these small cars
that people survive this stuff.
Like how about this one?
Look at that.
I don't know what they hit,
but that does not look good.
There's some carbon fiber coming off.
So this is my friend Carl Medlock.
You've seen him in videos before,
and this is his son, one of the sons.
Oh, there's another son, I see him, another son right there.
Carl used to work at Tesla,
his sons used to work at Tesla way back in the day
when they worked on Roadsters.
In fact, the Tesla Roadster that I have,
the red Roadster was one of the last Roadsters
that they ever worked on when they worked at Tesla.
And now I own it.
I'm not gonna tell you why it's the last one,
but it is the last one they worked on.
(people laughing)
I haven't even asked you this yet.
What the heck is wrong with my car? (laughs)
- There was a power surge in Utah it looks like.
And it blew up a board in the PEM, power electronics module.
- Yeah, so I was charging at a hotel
because you know that we moved recently.
Apparently, the power was not very consistent and it boom.
Were you able to fix the IGBT?
- Yeah, we fixed it, put a new board in it,
and the car is driving. (party horn blows)
- We're gonna start here in the back of the room
and end with the most unique ones and drive one of 'em out
because it has a really unique feature
that you have to see it to believe it and understand it.
So obviously, my car is here, right there,
it's beautiful, it's red.
What is this car that you have up above it?
- It used to belong to the one of the founders
of Google, Larry Page.
This is his car.
It's Vince founders' eight.
- [Dan] The eighth one ever made?
- [Carl] Yep. - [Dan] No?
- [Carl] Eighth one ever made.
Belongs to a person in Ohio now, and battery is going bad.
So we're gonna repair the battery.
- [Dan] And then we're gonna move over to the next rack.
We've got a green car here and a banana yellow car.
That car actually looks really good.
Look at the yellow on the inside
and the yellow on the outside.
- This car, we're custom building for ourselves.
We're going to market this car as soon as it stunt.
We're doing this BMW color,
and then we are going to put a dark tan,
interior dark called saddle interior in it.
We need some custom wheels, custom carbon fiber.
We're doing green carbon on the car.
- [Dan] Okay. - Having all in custom made,
kinda like the McLaren uses.
- [Dan] Okay, so you're gonna make that one look good.
- It's gonna be sexy.
- This is carbon fiber everything.
You've heard of matte black everything
from Marques Brownlee.
How about carbon fiber every-
Wait a second.
(tapping on car exterior) That's not carbon fiber.
Carbon almost everything. (chuckles)
Tesla itself, the company,
actually spent over a million dollars
making this specific car.
All right, Carl, did I get that right?
- I would say, probably, the R&D and everything we did
to this car probably was close to a million.
This car is basically a race car and street trim.
- [Dan] Wow.
- And our boss got fired over this
because even though the whole project was approved,
apparently, it was too much money.
- And there probably isn't a more capable racing Roadster
in the world.
So what's the future of this car?
- The future of this car is,
we're gonna finish fine tuning all the little details
'cause the heart's been setting for 10 years.
- [Dan] And you're gonna be selling it
at some point, right?
- Yeah, we're gonna sell it.
- We don't know where we're gonna sell it.
- [Dan] Yeah. - But we're gonna sell it.
- [Dan] My car's worth around like maybe just
over a hundred thousand dollars?
- Probably about- - [Dan] What do you
think this one is valued at?
- Well, with all the uniqueness of this car
and its provenance and all the things
that go with this car
and all the set assigned documents
and everything that goes with it,
we think the car is worth around 700, maybe less,
but comparable cars in the market and Mustangs
and other stuff have been brought that kinda money.
- These three right here are Tesla China Roadsters
that were stuck in a shipping container for 12 years.
But I'm not gonna talk about that in this video.
I made another video about it.
This car right here was recently brought in,
and they got a new color on it.
They got new forged carbon fiber all over it.
One thing I like, it's got Utah plates.
Look at those golden arches right there, Utah.
But it's not mine, it's not mine,
even though it has Utah plates.
But this is one of the most beautiful color blue cars.
One of the things I really like about this car
is check out the rims on this, the wheels.
Look at this.
This one actually says Medlock and Sons.
You made these wheels?
- Yeah, we made these wheels.
These are CNC.
They're monoblock.
They're lighter than the originals and they're larger.
They have our specs on it for the track.
- If you wanted to buy the original rims from Tesla,
it's around $10,000 for the rims because nobody has them,
or you can buy these custom made ones
that are a little bit wider and a little bit lighter.
Whew! And look at that carbon fiber.
You don't see carbon fiber like that on Roadsters.
Super unique.
What's the story with this carbon fiber?
Why does it look different than all the other ones?
- So normal carbon fiber has a weave,
and it's cross hatched.
This is what they call forged carbon,
and it's carbon fiber that's just, it's chopped up
and compressed down in the vacuum bagging process, so...
- Okay, yeah, that makes sense.
Yeah, that's beautiful.
This is a beautiful looking car.
This car is valued at around $180,000.
- Hundy.
- This is a paint color that you actually have
to license from Ford to even be able
to get access to it to put it on a car.
And Tesla did that for this customer.
Now you see it right now.
You see these different colors on there.
Watch as I move.
Let's stand up.
Did it change?
I bet it changed.
Watch what happens as we walk.
And this is not a wrap, this is the color of the car.
Do you see that moving?
I see greens, I see purples.
You tell me what you see in the comments.
If you're colorblind, that's okay.
Still tell me what you see in the comments what colors.
This car changes as you move.
It's like a lizard.
This paint costs $208 an ounce,
and for this car, you need one and a half gallons of paint.
Doing the math, calculating that out,
that's around $12,000 just for the paint color.
That's not even the application.
That's just to buy the paint and use it,
and they got a special license
from Ford to be able to do it.
When you see this on people's cars today,
it's just a wrap that they go and they do,
and they put a wrap on it.
This is the only one that was made in this color of paint
by Tesla or by the Lotus factory
when they painted the bodies on
before they shipped them over to Tesla
to put the electronics modules and motors
and all that stuff inside of it.
They bought this car from a customer,
and it really is the one on one.
This is one of the first 400 that were ever made.
If you want to buy this car that's super unique,
this one is for sale, it's around $150,000.
I make no money if you buy their cars.
I'm just showing you amazing, unique Roadsters
that nobody knows exist except for these guys that are here.
This shop is so cool.
Here's what I wanna do.
I wanna drive this outside
and show you some of the colors
and see how it changes once I'm outside.
We are in Seattle,
and it rains probably 99.8% of the time.
So hopefully, we get lucky here and there's no rain
'cause the actual roof of this is right here next
to me in the passenger seat.
(garage door slides open)
I don't see rain, I see a little bit of sunlight actually.
(truck honks)
UPS just honked at me.
When Tesla transitioned from the Roadster
over to the Tesla Model S,
something happened to a ton of the parts that they had.
They just disappeared.
Like, I don't know if they went to a junkyard or what.
So Carl, over the last like 10 years,
anytime he sees parts that are for sale,
if they're for a good price, he buys them.
He has multiple storage lockers that are full,
like shipping containers that are full
of parts for these Tesla Roadsters.
But even with that, you can't get everything.
So this is a wall of things that are custom made
by Medlock and Sons.
You can get carbon fiber
for all the different parts of your vehicle.
I mean, yes, they have a carbon fiber car
that basically, the whole thing is carbon fiber.
But a lot of times, you might wanna just do
around the lights or do the tail.
The diffuser or the lip,
you can make those carbon fiber.
But even on top of those,
like they don't even make the shocks anymore for these cars.
It's kind of annoying.
So like, this right here
is the original Tesla shocks right here.
And these ones are pretty new.
This is like one of the only one parts in the world.
But what Medlock and Sons did
is they made their own custom shocks
that are actually improved and better
versus what you get inside of the Tesla Roadster right now.
So in some ways, it's annoying
because the parts don't exist.
In other ways, it's really nice
because people like this shop are out here
making all the parts and coming up with them.
One of the things that's cool about owning a Tesla
is that you have control of your car.
You can see the battery, the mileage,
where it's located, all of that data.
But with the Roadster, it didn't have that.
So some company made this thing,
it's called the OVMS, and this shop is the only one
in America that can sell these.
They're around 200 to $300.
You can get this thing,
you install it yourself on your Roadster,
but it also is applicable
to 30 other cars in the world.
But for Roadster owners, you kinda need this
because if your battery goes to zero, kaput.
So I guess, basically, what I'm trying to say is
if you own a Tesla Roadster or you want to,
make sure you know the right people
that can fix your car and take care of it,
otherwise, you're gonna be like a lot of people have been,
they just sell their Roadster right away
because they're like,
"I don't wanna deal with this anymore.
It's a headache."
But if you get it done properly
and you keep it maintained,
no guarantees, it's not financial advice.
But I do feel like the value
of these are gonna go up over the years.
So the question that you guys will have
that I maybe started this video in,
am I getting a Tesla Roadster?
I get that question all the time in public.
They're like, "Are you still
getting your free Tesla Roadster?"
Which is a $250,000 brand new race car
from Elon Musk and Tesla.
Yes, I am.
It's still in my Tesla account.
I have it.
I was supposed to get $110,000 off the second one.
That one's not showing up in my account,
but I know for sure, I'm getting one free Tesla Roadster.
But the real question I have is,
will Tesla ever make it?
I think that they're going to,
I think the plan all along has been launch Model 3,
launch Model Y, then launch Cybertruck and get that going.
And right now, they're in that phase.
Give them about six months to 12 months,
and I feel like Cybertruck's gonna be ramped up.
They're gonna be selling a lot of 'em.
They'll fix the assembly line.
All of the little issues
that the truck is having right now are gonna be fixed
on over the year updates or just physically fixed.
And then they're gonna be selling 'em so well
that they'll have the money and the time to say,
"Hey, let's go into the Roadster.
Let's make this car that we promised back in 2000..."
I don't even know, I think it was 2016,
like it was seriously so long ago.
And a lot of you bought Teslas using my code back
when the car was $150,000.
And because of that, I get a free one.
So thank you to those of you that bought them.
I can't imagine Tesla wouldn't honor their promise on that.
Like I feel like they would do it.
At the same time, I'm not getting any younger.
I would like to drive the Roadster
before I turn like maybe 50.
I really wanna hold onto this car
at least until I get the next Tesla Roadster.
And I'm hoping that I can get it
in the same Fusion Red color and put these two side by side.
And then I don't think I would ever get rid of them.
Or if I ever did, it'd be like a pair.
You'd have to buy both of them.
There's the update on the Medlock and Sons shop
and some of the most unique Tesla Roadsters in the world.
I love coming to Seattle every single time,
and I literally have a flight in one hour,
so I gotta go to the airport.
So thank you for watching and see you next time.
I would drive this, but it's still getting worked on,
and there's like five cars in front of me
that are worth way more than this car.
Okay, bye. Airport time.
Don't you love it
when there's just a big bucket full of shocks?
Are these Roadster shocks in this bucket?
- [Man] Yeah.
- [Dan] Oh.
Hold their phones out and they're doing math right now
'cause I'm putting 'em on the spot like,
"Hey, what's the math on this?" Okay.
- [Man] 12,000 just for the color.
(car door closes) - Kaput.
All right, see you later, guys.