Roadster Registry Opens With a Visit to All Three

Roadster Registry is open, and the first story puts Original, Next Gen, and Personal in one frame: Petersen's Founders Series #7 and Roadster 2.0 Deck Model, plus the Personal garage pair.

Tesla Roadster 2.0 Deck Model on the Sydorick Grand Concourse

Tesla Roadster 2.0 (Deck Model) on the David and Ginny Sydorick Grand Concourse at the Petersen Automotive Museum. Credit: Jason Atwood / Roadster Registry

Roadster Registry is open, and the first story puts Original, Next Gen, and Personal in one frame: Petersen's Founders Series #7 and Roadster 2.0 Deck Model, plus the Personal garage pair.

Roadster Registry is live. To mark the open, we lined up all three chapters the History hub already names: Original, Next Gen, and Personal.

At the Petersen Automotive Museum, the Original example is the red 2008 Tesla Roadster Founders' Series #7, gift of Sergey Brin. Museum copy notes it as the 7th of 2,450 Roadsters produced, ordered new by Brin, with Tesla's early Lotus Elise "glider" path on the plaque. A few steps away sits the white 2017 Tesla Roadster 2.0 (Deck Model), gift of Tesla: one built, estimated 250 mph and 620 miles of range, and the first Tesla to use the tri-motor Plaid layout. The rear still wears the RDSTR plate in the Petersen Vault. Front and selfie shots on the David and Ginny Sydorick Grand Concourse stay labeled Concourse.

Personal closes the set at home: a white Original Roadster and a red Original Roadster sharing the same garage bay. That is the point of the Registry. Public cars, private cars, and the long wait for 2027 all belong in one place. Start at the directory, read how the Roadster Registry works (or the guides hub at /guides), and check About for why this site exists. For a short map of public display stops, see A Guide to Where to See the Roadsters.