"JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t" (jawzx2)
03/26/2015 at 22:14 • Filed to: seenintheworkparkinglot
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"JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t" (jawzx2)
03/26/2015 at 22:14 • Filed to: seenintheworkparkinglot | 6
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Today we took a long round-trip road trip in the Boss’s Tesla Model S 85 to visit a much larger specialty bindery and learn a bit about how they do things and what we might be able to so to streamline our own processes... Long story short: any real gains will require the purchase of much expensive machinery and a significant rejiggering of how we handle seasonal demand and employment... but lets talk about the other stuff that happened: we took a 450 mile road trip in a large, electric luxury sedan, oh did I mention we stopped to look at a 1932 Rolls Royce 20/25HP Carlton Coupe that’s for sale?
First you must load the Roadtrip Peacemaker Package into the Tesla computer... Then, with about an 88% charge you start driving south...
about 150 miles later you stop at a SuperCharger station in Brattleboro VT for half an hour or so while we eat a late breakfast. We could make it one way on the charge, but there’s no SuperCharger at our destination and if we don’t top off here we’d have to charge for 4-6 hours at a level-2 “Electric Vehicle Charging Station” to make it back this far again... We stopped at the same SuperCharger on the return trip, this time for about 45 minutes, putting about 250 miles of charge into the nearly depleted battery for our return trip. Extensive use of the heater impacted our mileage somewhat (as much wast heat as is possible is captured from the Battery/Inverter/Motor cooling system, but the resistive heater and heated seats got a bit of a workout on this cold, rainy day.) Hilly terrain and a lead foot (did I mention the Tesla is a goddamn rocketship?) also contributed to making the return trip “close” with only 1% charge left on the display when we got home. There’s some reserve after 0% though, so we weren’t too concerned. Over all the Tesla is a rapid, comfortable, quiet conveyance and the speed at which the SuperCharger can cram fresh electrons into the battery pack is truly something.
Can we talk about this little Roller we stopped to look at? It spent most of it’s life prior to the (still incomplete) restoration in the middle east, doing duty for the CIA and Foreign Service. Legend has it, it was even used during the Six Days War to evacuate some VIP’s across the Desert and may have been sat in by the Shah of Iran.
it’s a rare Carlton Coupe body, and although I couldn’t get a good angle on it in the small garage where it currently sits, it looks like this:
awww! isn’t that a cute little engine! It’s only 3669cc and 6 cylinders, which for a Rolls is pretty small, And as Bill Cooke from !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! says: “When it’s running right, it’s one of the quietest little engines you’ll never hear!”
Coach-built body... needs a headliner and such...
Transmission in unit with the engine in traditional Rolls Style. oh... hey something is missing here...
Front seats are outside the car and need to be reupholstered badly.
wood is solid though! (AND NO RUST AT ALL!)
Trafficators! Cool!
Then we went to home of a Pinball machine restorer, talked about the various Williams platforms and their virtues, played a few games of Taxi and Pin-Bot then set off on the return trip as outlined above.
Not a bad day of work, eh? (it was a long day of driving though... thankfully we had a swift, quiet and comfortable ride...)
WesBarton89 - The Way to Santa Fe
> JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t
03/26/2015 at 22:35 |
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I want your job. That is all. I also want the Tesla and the Rolls.
GhostZ
> JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t
03/26/2015 at 22:51 |
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Windows Media Player?! Is that you!?
Steve in Manhattan
> GhostZ
03/26/2015 at 23:11 |
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I saw 'Rotate Plates' and all I could think of was that Bond DB5 with the changeable tags.
JR1
> JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t
03/26/2015 at 23:11 |
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How much was the Rolls?
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JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t
> JR1
03/26/2015 at 23:43 |
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That's a sticky question... the son and nephew of the original owner (yes, this is a one owner car though, I guess technically it was owned by the US government for some of that time, but he was the exclusive user...), who died recently, are selling it because they don't have the skill to finish the restoration themselves or space to store it... There's a lot of historical value (and evidence, in the form of documents and pictures) associated with the car, and sentimental value for the son and nephew, but its an incomplete restoration that has been sitting untouched for five years now, and as a 20/25HP, despite the rare coachwork, is not as valuable as the larger Rolls' of that vintage... They claim they want a "good home" for the car rather than to make money on it, but they don't really have a price listed, it's just "for sale". It has been suggested by the sale agent that "a well considered offer" from the "right buyer" would be accepted.... what exactly that means requires research and careful language.
ConceptCarz lists an average auction sale price in the last 15 years for Rolls Royce 20/25 Coupes as $47,000, but this IS an incomplete restoration... so... hard to say. My boss was saying he would be thinking very hard about it if $20k seemed reasonable. He would plan to do ost of the remaining work himself except for the upholstery. It had a full engine and transmission rebuild done by Vintage Garage about 20 years ago, and was driven maybe 50 miles since that work was done, but it needs electrical work, a floor, interior work, brake work, and to be gone over again mechanically, just to be sure... He thinks it'll take him a year to put it back on the road if he dumps a couple other projects and concentrates only on it.
CAR_IS_MI
> JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t
03/27/2015 at 01:36 |
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Dammit. I want a Tesla just for this interface.
crowmolly
> JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t
03/27/2015 at 09:50 |
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Proud of your manual trans? PFFFT.
Try manual timing .
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JR1
> JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t
03/27/2015 at 10:37 |
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I never would have guessed you could get a pre war Rolls Royce for anything less than 100,000 dollars. It sounds like the sellers have the right mindset though. They car enough to send the car to the right home ever if it means taking a somewhat lower offer. I think your boss was probably correct saying it would be worth around 20k in this condition.
Manny05x
> JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t
03/27/2015 at 17:52 |
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Good read. Thanks.