Episode 350: Keeping the Original Roadsters Alive - Gruber Motors Interview

Ride the Lightning: Tesla Motors Unofficial Podcast

Ryan McCaffrey

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🗓️ 17 April 2022

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Gruber Motors founder Pete Gruber joins me to discuss his unique role in the Tesla community: servicing, maintaining, and restoring the original Tesla Roadsters as they become collector cars. Enjoy!

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0:00.0	Coming up on this week's episode of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla unofficial podcast,
0:04.2	Grouber Motors founder Pete Grouber joins me to discuss his unique role in the Tesla community,
0:10.0	servicing, maintaining, and restoring the original Tesla Roadsters as they now become collector cars.
0:16.3	Enjoy! Oh, What's happening friends? Ryan McCaffrey here with you alongside Daisy the Boxer
0:40.9	for episode 350 a little mini milestone this week of Ride the Lightning,
0:46.1	your weekly Tesla unofficial podcast. This one for April 17th, 2022 and I have been away all week with my family so this was recorded before I left
0:58.1	Because I wanted to make sure you had something awesome to listen to while simultaneously I was able to just take a little break
1:05.1	detach and just get some nice family time so as always you know this I'm privileged
1:10.8	enough to get to do this a couple times a year go away with the family.
1:14.8	And so I do appreciate all of you allowing me to do that and hopefully you enjoy the show that I've prepared
1:21.4	for you.
1:22.4	And this week, it's, I think it's a good one I recorded this a couple of weeks ago
1:26.7	what you're about to hear is a lengthy conversation it's about 55 minutes long or so
1:32.2	with a gentleman by the name of Pete Gruber.
1:34.6	He is the founder and CEO of Gruber Motors, and they are a service facility in Phoenix that
1:41.4	specializes in something very unique in the Tesla world and that is
1:46.4	servicing, maintaining, restoring taking care of the original Tesla Roadsters. You know you don't see them very often if you've ever had to take
1:56.4	your Tesla in for service odds are you've probably never seen a roadster there and there are
2:02.0	various reasons for that it's a really
2:04.7	interesting story and I hope you enjoy this interview I had a really good time
2:09.0	recording it because as you'll hear in the interview you know I, I had a Delorian for a long time, so I'm very sympathetic towards anyone that wants to take their time and their resources to support an orphaned car because the you know it's not that Tesla has
2:25.8	completely abandoned the original roadster but they don't make it anymore and
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