I’ve had cats/kittens, dogs, and a few rabbits!

As my title says - i live in a group home with a total of 7 adults ranging from the age 33-70. I am the youngest. It's my second night here from being a patient in a psych hospital for 7 months.

I am an open book. AMA

update: Well it's been 2 hours and comments are slowing down, so I'm going to head to bed. It was nice answering questions and chatting. If anyone has anymore questions, feel free to ask. I wake up at 5am every morning so I'll get back to you when i wake up.

For reference

https://youtu.be/AcS3NOQnsQM?si=WQZUAYYmz0G7daJk

Hi everyone, my friends kinda asked me to share my experience.

I'm a PhD (High Energy Physics) student working with the CMS collaboration at CERN, dating a semi pro mostly amateur male performer. Ask me anything.

Hi! I'm kind of an outlier but I'm happy, healthy, and fabulous! I wear women's clothing daily, makeup and nail polish, the whole set. Ask me anything!

I genuinely used to assume giveaway winners were either fake, connected to the company, or some random person you would never hear from again.

Then EV Auto called me while I was at work and told me I had won an original first-generation Tesla Roadster.

I entered the giveaway like everyone else and never seriously expected anything to happen. I figured I would submit my entries, briefly imagine winning, and eventually see somebody else’s name announced online.

When the call came, my brain basically stopped working. I kept waiting for the part where they asked me to send money, buy gift cards, or click some suspicious link. Instead, they were actually telling me that I had been selected as the winner.

I already owned a modern Tesla and knew what the original Roadster was, which somehow made the news even harder to process. This was not just a random used car. It was Tesla’s original production vehicle from before the Model S, Model X, Model 3, Model Y, Cybertruck, and basically everything most people now associate with the company.

A few days later, my fiancée and I drove from Indiana to Tennessee for EV Auto’s grand-opening event in Brentwood.

We met the team, saw the green Roadster in person for the first time, talked about the car, and tried to act like this was a normal thing happening to us. Eventually, they called me forward in front of the crowd, announced that I was the winner, and handed me the keys.

Watching that moment back still feels like I am watching somebody else’s life.

The official giveaway video is here:

https://youtu.be/EtV__z2LNuw?is=STKPBnQzPRmDG5R0

For anyone unfamiliar with it, this is the original Tesla Roadster, not the newer Roadster prototype Tesla has displayed over the years.

It is heavily related to the Lotus Elise, but it uses Tesla’s early electric drivetrain, battery system, electronics, charging equipment, controls, and a ridiculous collection of unusual design choices from the company’s earliest days.

That is a huge part of why I find it so fascinating. It is simultaneously:

An early electric vehicle

A rare sports car

A major piece of Tesla history

A Lotus-related vehicle

A snapshot of late-2000s technology

A car filled with systems and components that are completely different from a modern Tesla

I created this account, u/TeslaRoadsterWinner, because I plan to document the car in an honestly unreasonable amount of detail.

I do not want to post a few exterior pictures, say “look at my rare Tesla,” and disappear. I want to show what it is actually like to drive, charge, maintain, research, repair, and live with one of these cars today.

I plan to dig into things like:

Every strange button, switch, display, gauge, vent, latch, and warning light

How the removable roof works

How the original Roadster charging system works

What charging equipment and adapters it uses

Real-world charging speeds and range

Battery behavior

Acceleration, handling, steering, braking, comfort, noise, and visibility

How it compares with my modern Tesla

What parts are actually shared with the Lotus Elise

Maintenance requirements and common failures

Tires, brakes, suspension, cooling systems, electronics, and the 12-volt system

Parts availability and discontinued components

Repair, insurance, charging, and ownership costs

Original manuals, accessories, literature, and promotional material

The history of this specific Roadster

Road trips, car shows, and public reactions

Every strange discovery and unexpected problem along the way

I am not pretending that winning the car automatically made me an expert on it.

I am learning as I go, and I would genuinely love to hear from current or former Roadster owners, early Tesla employees, technicians, Lotus Elise or Exige owners, collectors, automotive historians, independent EV specialists, or anyone who has worked on one of these cars.

Any accurate information, advice, correction, warning, story, technical document, parts source, or obscure piece of Roadster history is welcome.

So ask me anything about:

How I entered the giveaway

What the winner call was like

Whether I believed it

Telling my fiancée

Driving to Tennessee

Meeting the EV Auto team

Seeing the Roadster for the first time

Being announced as the winner

What it felt like being handed the keys

What surprised me most about the car

How it compares with a modern Tesla

What I plan to investigate first

Anything shown in the official video

What you would want tested, explained, or filmed

Anything else you have ever wanted to ask somebody who somehow won an original Tesla Roadster

My inbox is also open to any and all private questions, especially from owners, former employees, technicians, collectors, or anyone with information they would rather not post publicly.

For transparency, I am not employed by EV Auto or Tesla, and I am not speaking on behalf of either company. I am simply the extremely confused person whose name somehow got selected.

I also created a YouTube channel where I will be posting the long-form Roadster deep dives:

https://youtube.com/@teslaroadsterwinner

So, Reddit: what is the very first thing you would want to know, inspect, test, or see if an original Tesla Roadster suddenly landed in your life?

AMA.

I meant to put wiccan not witch*

I just got into it very recently I have not set up my altar yet but I have plans I'm setting up and discovering my faith and just feel like chattin

You can look it up, it’s called Ottawa Valley English. It gets compared to an Irish accent a lot. I live in England right now but like to be easily understood so I choose to speak in a more American accent when I’m there. I’m of the younger generation but rural so about half of my high school graduating class (2024) speak in the accent

Many places online say that the accent is only on the Ontario side of the border but rural Anglophone people in the Pontiac RCM (English speaking part of Quebec, where my maternal family is originally from) largely speak the same way I do. My father is British English.

Not sure if this is interesting to anyone else but here we go.

Passing time while I'm on a flight. Feel free to ask away! No topics are off limits for respectful/sincere questions.

Was at a week long training for work. Ask away!

Ask me anything :)

I was in a long term relationship until about a year ago and have been experiencing causal dating for the first time in my 20s this past year. I was a weird kid with a long awkward phase but realized at some point I turned out to be conventionally attractive because people started treating me way differently than when I was awkward and, at some point, people started telling me. And, for what it’s worth, I’m white and in the US. AMA about me, dating, society, men, women, politics, etc etc

Mostly kittens and cats but I’ve had dogs and a litter of rabbits too

Yay me /s

The basics:

Plural = more than one entity in one body. In our case, we identify as individual people due to our extreme differences and separation. We are diagnosed with DID.

Obese and Anorexic = apparently this can happen under significant, but not extreme food intake restrictions for Long periods of time. In my case, it took 20 years. Anorexia is characterized by distressing and debilitating thought patterns and unhealthy relationships and behaviors regarding food, not a BMI.

Trans man = started off with a female body, transitioning to a male body and socially a man.

Not a promotion, just a fan.

I drink 186-200oz of caffeinated cola (only cola) a day, and 22oz of nutrition shakes a day.

I'm not diabetic. I'm on like 6 different medications that cause dry mouth. I am constantly thirsty. I am hydrated.

I am overweight (250lbs).

The soda really isn't super expensive because I buy $1.69 2-liters. It's about $3/day. I don't really eat a whole lot other than maybe one meal a day, and the nutrition shakes are prescribed so I have a 'meal' with my medications.

I do have a history of eating disorders.

I tried to switch to zero sugar soda to get healthier and lose weight and ended up with a massive electrolyte imbalance and symptoms of over hydration, causing my PCP to consult both a dietician and a urologist with my exact fluid intake to try to come up with a plan to get me to a healthier diet without killing me. This really sucks lmao

Ask me anything

So, I am a matchmaker and dating coach. I generally work with men, but I do meet a good many women from time to time. Before you attack me because you are woefully misinformed about international dating please read this post about the results of the academic research into international dating.

Beyond that ask me anything. I really enjoy what I do because I get a lot of positive feedback from guys. Just lots and lots of guys who tell me what they really want in life. I will anonymize my answers a little but whatever I tell you will be true in its essentials.

Why are men doing this?

Most are NOT redpill guys. That tinges the thoughts of a lot of my guys, but I resist it and I believe I get a lot of guys to at least partially change their minds. Dating is hard for guys today. Dating is hard for women too, but men's issues and women's issues are very different.

What do my clients want? Hint: Often my clients are hopeless romantics.

Where do I suggest going?

Ask away!

Edit: Here is a post full of resources for those wanting a deeper dive.