Tesla #2

18 responses to “Tesla #2”

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   !MimosaMicheMichelle!

   Oct 11, 2008 at 5:24 pm

   It is definitely unique! So what would YOUR colours be if you had a customized paint job?

   When you come into Buck’s for breakfast, you know who is there.

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   eye of einstein

   Oct 11, 2008 at 5:35 pm

   headed for the Bucks..! when the dust settlles

   followed the link..

   more to digest

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   jurvetson

   Oct 11, 2008 at 5:46 pm

   Mimosa: I tried to get a clear coat (i.e., bare carbon fiber)… The layup was not designed to be seen though

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   !MimosaMicheMichelle!

   Oct 11, 2008 at 7:19 pm

   You mean you would of like to have the body in its natural state? That would have been quite interesting!

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   elverloho

   Oct 12, 2008 at 10:02 am

   Hm. This looks a bit like the original Ford GT40 racing colors from 1968.

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   jurvetson

   Oct 12, 2008 at 4:52 pm

   whoa – that looks like a perfect color match.
   I guess I should ask Martin…

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7. 

   hurried friction

   Oct 12, 2008 at 5:37 pm

   Looks like the Gulf Oil Racing colors

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8. 

   sweet thing

   Oct 13, 2008 at 6:52 am

   A little jab at the soon to be extinct oil industry perhaps?

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   benjiman

   Oct 13, 2008 at 7:30 pm

   hot colors, good eats!

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10. 

    CWB71

    Nov 9, 2008 at 11:49 pm

    Taken outside Fry’s in Palo Alto the very next day:

    [http://www.flickr.com/photos/cwb71/2929227135/]

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    Doug_Dirac_Delta

    May 29, 2009 at 3:34 pm

    VIN440, kinda like the anti-Martin car:
    [http://www.flickr.com/photos/26339101@N07/3575453436/]

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    jurvetson

    May 29, 2009 at 4:00 pm

    Antimatter!

    There can be just one.

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13. 

    Doug_Dirac_Delta

    May 29, 2009 at 5:59 pm

    Ha ha, Right! I spoke with the owner… He and Martin will get their cars together for a photo op. Totally disregarding the possibility of mutual annihilation!!

    Btw, "There can be only one."

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    jurvetson

    May 29, 2009 at 6:12 pm

    oops. amazing that the semantic space still resolves to highlander

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    Doug_Dirac_Delta

    Jun 1, 2009 at 7:36 am

    I suppose the concept of a contest ending in a single winner pops up a lot. Likely, the violence and drama of that contest in Highlander provides a vivid image that makes it the analogy of choice.

    Someone managed to capture the two cars in the same frame:
    [http://www.flickr.com/photos/12536044@N03/3579365180/]

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    jurvetson

    Mar 22, 2010 at 1:25 am

    and, to make it even more spooky, they have license plates that differ by one letter!

    

    Seen today at the Menlo Park Road Rally.

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17. 

    TEG2

    Dec 19, 2010 at 6:27 am

    Martin had ordered both plates, and when he decided which to keep he gave the other to the owner of the other car. I don’t think "MY TESLA" knew he was getting the almost inverse car until the car was already ordered.

    It isn’t exact. One is gray+orange, and the other orange+silver.

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    TEG2

    Jan 2, 2011 at 10:50 pm

    

    

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