[Jason] My whole life, I don't know why,
I just always, always loved these cars.
This is my first time riding in one.
It so happens
first time I'm riding in one, it happens to be the Royal...
uh, King Edward VIII's car.
And it has a trident on the front
with a lion,
in matte black.
What am I gonna do?
It's not my fault.
It's meant to be.
[electric engine revs]
["Wherever I may roam" playing]
♪ And the road becomes My bride♪
♪ I have stripped Of all but pride ♪
♪ So in her I do confide ♪
♪ Off the beaten path I reign ♪
♪ Rover, wanderer ♪
♪ Nomad, vagabond Call me what you will ♪
♪ Wherever I may roam ♪
[inaudible]
♪ Wherever I may roam, yeah ♪
[pleasant instrumental music playing]
[Jason] I've always had a fascination
with traditional engines.
At the same time,
I love seeing
how the technology within these pieces has
evolved over time.
I wanted to embark on a journey
to combine the old with the new,
to find a way to appreciate
these vehicles I love from the past
and carry on their stories.
I was in England doing Fast
and there was an auction.
[people cheering]
[Jason] I'd never been to the Goodwood Revival before.
It's like the Burning Man
for vintage cars and motorcycles.
It's the perfect place for me.
I saw this car.
It was just stunning. It was beautiful.
And I wasn't gonna go over a certain amount.
And I'm sitting with the Duke
and I'm sitting with his son, Charlie,
and it's so loud there
[chuckling] that you can't hear what's going on.
These guys are like, "Yeah, yeah."
They're like pushing me on. We're watching the race.
I bid on it
and I ended up winning.
And it's something I've always wanted.
And I thought it was beautiful.
It's a 1929 Rolls-Royce Phantom II.
How cool is it looking down and seeing that emblem, bro?
It's fucking insane, right?
So beautiful.
I am an environmentalist at heart.
I try to do the best I can with climate change.
It really is
a deep part of my soul.
I do have a guilty pleasure.
Gas and oil.
You know, I try to offset that.
But it's something that I love.
With that, you know, we have anxiety and guilt about that,
but I have been making e-cars.
-I have so many classic cars-- -[man] Oh.
...and I'm a huge-- you know,
it's my kind of addiction is gas and oil.
And I have plenty of those.
So I always wanted to take something like this because...
it's so quiet anyways, right?
I've never seen a Phantom as an e-car.
So I'm like,
let's make it an e-car.
Let's try it.
[indistinct conversation]
[Jason] In order to pull off this dream project,
I had to find the right partner.
I needed a team that would appreciate
the storied history of this car
while updating its technology.
[Steve] What Electrogenic does
when we're looking at old cars is
we never drill anything. We never cut anything.
We don't ever take anything away from the car.
We simply unbolt
the parts that we don't need,
and then we design around what's left.
Whoa.
You know what? This would be the first time
I've ever ridden in a Porsche.
-Really? -I've never been in a Porsche.
I've never even sat in a Porsche.
-Let's go then. -[Jason] Yeah.
-[man] There we go. [chuckles] -I'm 6'5".
[Jason] Electrogenics is all about honoring vintage cars,
making them electric
without losing any of the vehicle's character.
They were the perfect fit.
I've done so much research
trying to raise awareness about deep sea mining,
and there's different ways that we can make batteries
that are healthier for our planet.
So the research that we did on this,
wanting to make an e-car,
we got with Electrogenics, who are in England,
and concepted the whole thing.
It was amazing.
It was so fast.
-And you get a shift. -[man] Yeah.
That was the best part. Like, it's still got
the old car feel without the boring--
Like, Tesla's great and everything.
It's awesome what they do for the world.
But it's boring.
You know what I mean? I love old cars.
...boring for me. I love old cars.
And being able to be in an old car and go...
If I can go 80 miles an hour on the freeway in that thing--
-[man chuckles] -[Jason] I don't have to.
But if I can just jump off the line and just, like,
sit next to a Mustang and just be like,
"What's up?" [mimics electric motor revving]
-Take off and-- -[all laughing]
-Just blowing minds. -[man] Yeah.
[pleasant music playing]
[Jason] We needed to find a company
that's going to be able to do this
and that's when I met Electrogenic.
'Cause a lot of people I went to,
they were just like, "It's going to cost this.
It's going to cost that." I'm like, "No way."
[pleasant music playing]
[Jason] Cut to Steve.
Super positive about the whole thing.
Shows me all the cars that he's already done.
Is really excited about it.
I had a vision of what I wanted it to look like.
[Steve] Nothing like this has ever been done before.
There's no EV that looks like this.
This is a unique design
for Jason, with Jason.
It's this blend of really very ancient,
nearly 100 years old technology
and the very modern technology.
It is absolutely unique in the world.
[Jason] My time at Electrogenics left me inspired
about all the possibilities of E-technology.
And I wanted to find another vintage piece
that I could infuse this into.
["Sign of the Judgement" playing]
[man] ♪ I see the sign ♪
- [choir] ♪ Yeah ♪ -♪ I see the sign ♪
[choir] ♪ Hey Lord, Time draws nigh ♪
[man] ♪ The sign Of the judgment ♪
- [choir] ♪ Hey♪ -♪ The sign of the judgment ♪
[choir] ♪ Hey Lord, Time draws nigh ♪
[man] ♪ The sign In the fig tree ♪
- [choir] ♪ Hey♪ - ♪ Sign in the fig tree♪
[choir] ♪ Hey Lord, Time draws nigh ♪
[man] ♪ Loose horse In the valley ♪
- [choir] ♪ Hey ♪ -♪ Loose horse In the valley ♪
- [choir] ♪ Hey ♪ -♪ Loose horse in the valley ♪
[choir] ♪ Hey Lord, Time draws nigh ♪
[Jason] I wanted to find another vehicle.
Something with a unique story,
much like the Rolls-Royce.
Something with history.
I went to Tennessee
to see my friend Mike Wolfe's collection
and get inspired.
[Jason laughs]
You brought my hammer.
-[Jason grunts and laughs] -[Mike laughs]
[Mike] You brought my hammer.
[pleasant music playing]
[Jason] Mike is somebody I really admire
in the bike community.
He's built an amazing collection
and has so much knowledge he's stored over the years.
[inaudible]
One.
[Jason] Ooh!
Two original 36s.
-Bro! -Bone stock.
I really respect him and love him.
And so, he's another person who's got all these '36s,
he's got tons of bikes.
He's got all the parts.
Like, he's been to all these sheds.
He has the time to go-- He's got a show about it
where-- I don't have the time to do that.
[Mike] We started talking on the phone,
getting to know each other,
and we had a lot of stuff in common.
You know, he'd been into motorcycles
for a very long time, just like I'd been.
[Jason] Holy moly.
I'll take a second.
[Mike laughs]
[Jason exhales] We're here, man.
-We're here. -[Mike] Some of it...
-...gonna look like when I grow up? -Yeah.
-Man! -I hope so.
[pleasant music playing]
[Mike] A lot of people would naturally judge Jason
by his success, which is easy to do.
I mean, the guy is bigger than life,
not just physically,
but, you know, spiritually.
I think there's--
there's one-- [chuckling] I think there's only one in here
that runs right now.
-No, there's two. There's one over there, too. -This is like--
There's two bikes that run in here.
[Jason] What I love about Mike is
that he's all about appreciating these things from the past.
He's collected so many bikes,
but still has this reverence
for who and where they came from.
And I think that's important.
Being raised by my mother,
and having grown up with antiques,
I have always appreciated the life
that a vintage piece has lived before it reaches you.
[Mike] You appreciate it for what it is.
There's so many people now that are kind of,
you know, they're kind of, you know, connecting to this in so many ways.
But, you know, I mean, I've-- I've--
I've been into this for a very long time
and I've always connected to it in this way.
There's so many bikes in here that--
Like, that bike, for example,
I've had it for 18 years. I think I've cleaned it twice.
You know, it's almost kind of, to me,
like taking a chalkboard
and erasing it in some ways, you know, just--
I don't-- I-- They have to run good.
I've mechanically gone through
but we just-- just-- just--
I don't know, I connect with them in so many ways, just like this.
See, I know, you know what I'm talking about,
like when you're-- you want your, like--
-with your stuff at night-- -Yeah.
...and, you know, I come in here,
I have a couple of beers
and sit around, I'm looking at all these bikes,
I'm looking at them on the walls,
and it's like, to me,
you know, every one of these bikes is like
someone else's dream.
You know what I mean? Like, they worked hard for it.
They-- they-- they-- they--
They made the payments.
They sacrificed so much to own the bike
and then they customize the bike to themself.
So it's like, you know,
all of these guys that came before us
that now we'd love to ride this stuff, you know,
it's like they were making it--
building it for them,
but they were also somehow building it for the future,
you know? It's just crazy to think about it.
[instrumental music playing]
[Jason] While I'm walking through Mike's place,
I'm just searching for something to stand out
as the next piece we can revive.
[Mike] That's the grand opening.
1947.
This is the grand opening of this building.
Look at-- That's what I'm saying.
Look what a big deal this was to the community.
So cool.
It was such a huge deal to the town.
Oh, you want to see an original--
You want to see an original board track racer?
-Yeah. -Check this out. This is a '12.
Oh, bro! That's it!
-That's it. Oh! -That's it right there.
That's a '12, four valve.
-This is an original four valve engine. -Whoa.
Original racing carb, original paint.
-This time period-- -Yeah.
-...especially pre-1920-- -Yeah.
...when you're talking '12, pre-1915,
this is the kind of stuff
that, like, really gets my juices flowing
because it was such a--
it was the best time in the motorcycle industry,
as far as I'm concerned, the American industry.
I'm looking at these historic board track bikes,
and I'm starting to get an idea.
Being able to take this,
-like, it's-- -Alcohol burning.
it's a bicycle.
It's a bicycle with a fricking--
Very similar because right here
-where the eccentric goes-- -Yeah.
-...would be like the bottom bracket. Yeah. -Yeah.
So, if I took this motor out
and turn this into an e-bike,
you're putting-- you're putting the hub
and you're putting all the electronics
within the tank...
and reproducing these,
no one's ever done it like that.
Why can't this beautiful machine--
why can't this just be an e-bike?
I mean, you remove the motor,
but the whole geometry of it being on this e-bike.
If you can remake this and this is affordable--
-[Mike] Yeah. -Get the motor out
and it's just like...
have an e-bike right here.
I love the idea of honoring these historic bikes
and turning them into something
that we could ride every day.
After leaving Mike Wolf's shop,
it was clear to me what type of bike I needed to make.
So while I'm in Tennessee,
I'm going to go meet a builder
who has inspired me my whole life.
-Billy! - [Jason narrating] Billy Lane.
And he's also been deeply influenced
by these original board track racing bikes.
[Jason exclaims]
Oh, my God. Man.
Streets have been talking, man. I heard you were in town.
-Man. -What's up, bro?
-[Jason grunts] -How are you, man?
-It's good to meet you. -It's fucking--
It's a pleasure, man. Finally. Finally.
[melancholy music playing]
[Billy] What I do is, uh,
I build for my customers
what I would build for myself.
I build these bikes
like I have to ride it forever.
Like, it's the only one I can ever-- ever be on.
That's kind of what I put into it.
[Jason] It's impossible to put into words
just how influential Billy has been to me.
As a craftsman,
his whole approach to bike building is
unlike anything that I've ever seen.
[Billy] You know, Jay asked me to build a bike for him.
Um, super honored to do it.
You know, um, and as I've gotten to know him,
it's been a really amazing experience
because the guy loves,
loves-- he lives and breathes this stuff, you know.
And that-- it's so genuine in him.
I've always said that about myself, that I'm genuine.
I've done this my entire adult life.
I've never done anything else.
Everything's analog, you know, um.
I hand do all this stuff. There's no computers.
The only computer is in my cell phone.
That's how I find the parts.
It's how I communicate with people,
but everything else that I'm doing is by hand,
-the old way they did it a century ago. -That's awesome.
That's awesome. That's so rad.
[melancholic music playing]
[Billy] I appreciate any time I see somebody doing
a really cool, old, hand-done trade of any type,
I love it. I mean, it's just so great to see
because everything is so disposable now
and artificial and um, you know,
kind of taking the human elements removed from a lot of it.
Yeah.
I love-- I mean, I've been doing this since I was a teenager.
It's like you said, when you were 19--
I started doing this when I was 17-18
because I could not afford to buy what I wanted,
so if I couldn't afford to buy it,
I'll figure out how to make it by hand.
That's how I got into this business.
Wow.
What year do you think this was?
It was, um, 2004.
So, you know, I made Road to Paloma,
I think, in 2006 or 7.
Yeah and the opening, like, this bike--
I'm like-- that was definitely inspired by...
His bikes are so easily recognizable.
He was a massive inspiration to me
all the way back when I made Road to Paloma.
Would you ever sell that?
-Sell what? -That-- That.
-The picture? -Yeah.
No, but I'll give it to you.
[both chuckle]
[Jason grunts]
-You can have it-- -Bro!
It's got a little wet, but--
-[Jason] That's what makes it awesome! -Yeah.
Damn, man.
That's the cool thing about board track.
I'm like, those were the original rock'n roll.
-Yeah. Yeah. -I mean, those guys...
It was the first extreme sport, board track racing.
It was really the first extreme sport.
I mean, those guys were,
you know... like,
overpowered bicycles going
100 miles an hour on a wood track.
-I mean-- -And if you wiped out,
like, you're going to get a splinter
that's just going to completely impale you.
Yeah. And those tracks were, you know,
40-degree, 50-degrees banking. I mean, if you wiped out,
you know, not only were you going to go down,
but you were going to go down and down.
And I mean, there's other bikes behind you.
They're like, they're that steep.
Super steep, yeah.
Well, I would love to see this board track.
-I'd love to see that bike. -Yeah.
-You got it here? Let's go see it. -It's here.
Oh, man.
Oh.
-That's amazing. -Yeah.
[Billy] Board track bikes were the first choppers.
They called them choppers 'cause they would cut everything off of it
that didn't belong,
it was heavy, or it was in the way,
or it didn't serve a vital function.
I've always looked at board track racers
and racing motorcycles
and applied a lot of that into my choppers.
I mean, that's where a lot of my influence came from.
[Billy speaks indistinctly]
[engine sputters]
[engine starts]
[Jason] What I love about Billy is
he's always evolving.
When Billy started Sons of Speed,
it put board tracks back up in the forefront.
That stripped-down style.
I want to use that same inspiration
for this e-bike idea.
[inaudible]
There's only one team I could think of
that could pull that off.
And that was Specialized.
[rock music playing]
What is that?
-[yells] What is that? -[Robert] We're going to ride that.
-We're going to ride that. -That's amazing.
Whoa.
[Robert] Everything we do is
about having fun on a bicycle.
-Bicycles can save the planet. -They can. They can.
That's it. That's what it's all about.
Dude. My boy!
-[Robert] Yeah. Shaun. -[Jason exclaims]
[Robert] He was quite a character.
You know, he really, um...
he's been one of the best athletes
for Specialized
because it gave us so much credibility.
This was everything. He was everything.
[Robert] You know, and that guy just threw on a pair of jeans and raced...
-which, you know-- -That's what I--
-The whole freestyle thing kind of came from Palmer. -Yeah.
That's what I love about him.
He's just like, he didn't give--
He was just rock and roll.
[Jason] Basically, when I left my mother's house,
I was into rock climbing and mountain biking.
And so when I went out to Colorado,
and I was living in Fort Collins,
I worked at Lee's Cyclery.
And at Lee's Cyclery, I bought my first bike,
and it's this orange Specialized Stumpjumper.
I have so many memories.
I kicked so many guys that had, like, Santa Cruz
and had all these bikes--
It's wonderful. It's been through everything with me.
It only had, like, two and a half inches of travel.
It was rigid.
And I would bomb Vail,
and go do downhill.
I used to-- I didn't have a car in L.A.
I used to ride everywhere. I used to ride to go climbing.
-I used to ride to the gym. -[man] Oh, man.
And, so I moved there when I was 19,
I did everything on this, bro.
I had people from acting class,
-like, my first acting class-- -[Robert] Uh-huh.
...they'd go-- I used to roll up
and I'd have, like, the Fat Albert lunch case.
-[man chuckling] Oh, yeah. -The lunch pail.
And I'd put it in, like, my Timbuk2 Rasta thing,
and I'd ride across L.A.
And I would just ride on this, dude.
[Jason] I've always kept the Specialized with me.
And it's a really beautiful company that's always stayed with me.
And forever, I'll always be Specialized.
[Robert] This is called the Cub,
Cool Urban Bike.
And this is for people that live in the city, want to ditch their car,
and just have a bicycle to do everything that they need to do.
-So these are based on a Shelby Mustang. -Shelby.
-It's got the little shifter there. -Amazing.
[Robert] Look at this.
-Bottle opener. -[chuckling]
[Jason] They're amazing, 'cause they're just like, "Innovate or die."
And you go through their museum,
and it just blows your mind, 'cause you get to see
everything that they built and made,
and it was just wonderful.
I think what I love about Specialized is that they're so insistent
on innovation, without sacrificing that handcrafted quality.
They've maintained that level of craftsmanship for so long.
[man] Start out with that block of aluminum,
use this machine to cut it down into that.
Throw it in the test lab, go and put it under you,
ride down the track.
-That's what we're doing. -Wow.
[Jason] For this ambitious of an idea, they were the perfect match.
[Jason] I mean, like, I failed high school in a big way, you did not.
-[laughing] -Like, I'm the guy that rides these.
Here's the test dummy, here's the genius that makes it.
-We all work together. -Yeah, for sure.
I know my place.
I break things, you fix and make things.
[no audio]
[Jason] So what I'm gonna do today is I'm gonna show you something
that I've been passionate about for many, many years.
[Robert] Right on.
And Specialized has been in my heart...
This has been my...
Most people don't know I rode bikes,
but it's, like, one of my favorite things,
and I'm nostalgic.
I love things old. I was raised in IO.
My mom raised me with antiques.
I'm very much a collector... a hoarder, some people would call.
-Slash hoarder. Yeah. -Slash hoarder.
Like, I am a 100% gas and oil guy, you know, I mean, I love that,
but at the same time, I'm environmentalist, I'm an activist.
I'm, you know, father to the next generation.
I love riding, I love technology,
but I love seeing where things come from,
and I love seeing, like, how things started,
and it all started with the bike, right?
-And then it evolved into things that I love. -Yeah.
Massive dream for me
to be able to be in Specialized and show you guys this.
It's been a lifelong passion, so...
-Oh, man! -[Robert] Holy crap.
-Wow, I love it! -That's unbelievable!
-Look at the stuff! -I love it! Oh, man!
[Jason] This is the 1915 Harley-Davidson.
They didn't start board track, really, till 1916.
This is the first short-coupled...
-This is where they took the frame in. -Yeah, yeah, tucked it way in.
And it was tucked in.
So this might be the first board track that Harley ever did.
I want you guys to make... these board track bikes...
is a bicycle.
-If you remove that motor... -Right.
-...and you have this stance... -Mmm-hmm.
...and we can make this bike go 40 mile...
Like, you can make a Specialized bicycle out of these,
and bring back something that...
-People can't get these. -Right.
But the idea is to go...
No one's been able to take a board track bike,
the specs, and look at it all, and go, like...
-We're gonna pull it all apart... -Right.
CAD or whatever you guys do, to then set these, like...
Here's these different designs,
and the idea is to set the tone,
because... you said it,
bikes can save the world.
I'm a gas and oil guy, I love this,
but I only ride these things maybe twice a year.
-Yeah. -Once a year.
They're special to me, they make me, like... they make me think...
This is what I wanna do,
remove this and turn it into a bike.
-Yep. -Yep.
[Jason] It's hard to explain how impactful these bikes were
to builders over the last century.
So to challenge these artists with building an e-bike
inspired by them, that's the ultimate honor.
[no audio]
And it's a huge task.
That's it, right there.
Ohh, shit, bro!
-[Steve] That's a long journey. -That's a long journey.
-How are you? -All right.
-How're you doing? -Not bad, not bad.
All the way from the Middle East.
Yeah, long journey.
On the roam, for real.
[Steve] You'll see it has a...
It's slightly different.
-It's a different shape in the front. -[Jason] Wow.
And some essential parts have now been removed.
Wow.
[Steve] It's a beautiful piece of engineering,
and a fascinating thing to drive.
And it will be even quieter,
even smoother, and it's more powerful when it's electric.
Definitely more powerful.
[Jason] Wow.
Man...
[man] Just leave it there.
[Jason] Oh, my baby's gutted!
-[chuckles] Yeah. -[Jason chuckles] Wow.
[Steve] The really important thing about making a car like this electric
is to really respect it,
uh, because we can't push it too much further
than the original designers intended,
because you then start to create other problems,
so it's about being sympathetic, that sort of thing.
So there's probably a certain speed this thing can go and not...
-Yeah. -You gotta cap it at something?
What's the speed on that?
-[man] About 60, I think. -Really?
Little bit faster than that.
[laughing] It might fall apart.
[Jason] One of the most important things to me with the Rolls-Royce
was protecting the soul it had from a century ago.
I didn't want that story to be lost.
[Jason] Ooh-hoo-hoo, that look good!
Get a sense of how it could look, and...
So this is always kind of the sexy thing on a Rolls.
[man] Yeah.
So having it just... but smaller, you know.
Just for the cabling or whatever.
-[man] We could run that. Simple thing. -Yeah.
[Steve] Came up with a few ideas,
and we discussed them with Jason.
Jason's very visual,
and he was very clear about how he wanted it to look under the bonnet.
[Jason] Being able to take something from 100 years ago,
and infuse this new technology into it,
without losing the character of its age,
that's what I love.
[Billy] You know, I'm not the best craftsman.
You know, there's a lot of guys out there that are better craftsmen than me,
and I don't try...
I don't try to be what I'm not.
I've never, ever tried to be anything other than what I am.
[no audio]
And I think it's any man's responsibility
to find out what your true gift is,
and to develop it, and to share it.
I mean, and that's what I've been doing for thirty-plus years.
This is my expression, just like a song.
Somebody writes a song, they're just expressing themselves
in a way that maybe they can't say in...
you know, in any other way.
[engines revving]
You know, say you buy a high-end painting.
You hang it up on your wall in your house, and you insure it,
and you might bring a few people in to see it,
but my story, I can take out and show to you,
and someone else isn't gonna take out.
Whether it's Jason Momoa or some guy off the street
that none of us ever heard of, uh, it's the same honor,
because somebody's asking me to give them a piece of me.
And you know, I always try to give it my all.
[Jason] There's so many different types of builders,
all I know is I'm just such a motorcycle enthusiast.
I love, just... I love being in the wind.
I just celebrate the artists,
everyone... 'cause they're putting in their own art form, and like,
whether it be bringing something back as a stock piece,
whether it be, like, building a chopper, you know,
fabricating everything from the ground up.
I just... I respect it all.
You're getting out on the road.
You're sharing that space.
[no audio]
-Hey! How are you? -Hi!
Oh, my God!
[laughs] Oh, wow!
These are amazing!
Holy shit.
Wow.
Oh, man, he killed it.
It's almost like a Harley. It looks super cool.
It's like original Harley's.
Gosh! Man, there's just so much to it too.
Down in New Zealand, they surprised me.
Flew 'em down here, put 'em together,
and uh, had two motors in, I was blown away.
Two e-motors in that thing.
[Jason] It's from Robert.
"I designed and built these two bikes,
and I just wanted to say what a great honor
and opportunity to build a bike for you.
Please choose the one you like the best,
and send the other one back at your convenience.
We want to display it in our museum." Of course.
"Have a blast. Robert." What a beautiful...
Yeah.
Oh, damn!
[whooping]
Take it to the beach, baby. Let's go to the beach.
It's an amazing experience to be on an e-bike,
and on the beach.
And as much as I love motorcycles and the sound, and all that kind of stuff,
it's just beautiful to be...
when you just hear the sound of the waves.
That was like a dream, to be able to come down here,
sun is setting, and be, uh,
just cruising on the beach with my friends.
[Billy] Motorcycles going electric is natural evolution.
I'll always have a love for this,
but of course I'm gonna embrace...
It's the natural progression of things. It's gonna happen.
And I'm glad to see it happening now.
[Jason] I think my main inspiration for the whole thing is like,
I love these old things.
How do I make them fit into this world
where we need to protect it?
Showing everybody what the possibilities of the future...
Taking something from the past
and putting it into the future is beautiful,
and wanting to have solutions for Mother Earth.
These craftsmen that I've surrounded myself with
are still facing the same question
that bike builders faced a century ago.
How do you honor what you love from the past
and still improve on it?
-Hi! -[Jason] Two years in the making.
[chuckles] Yeah.
Welcome to your lovely new car.
Yeah... Tell me everything.
Holy shit.
[Steve] Beautiful, isn't it?
[puffing] Bro, that's amazing!
This is my favorite side.
-[Jason] Wow. -Yeah.
And so you know, Henry Royce, in the early 1920s,
he said the future of Rolls-Royce is electric.
-So we like to think that this is a car-- -Really?
-Yeah, this is a 1929 car. -Bro...
This is a car that he might've created
if he had the technology available to him then.
[Jason] The inside of the car is just...
Everything about it is perfect. The color, the wood.
The fact that they didn't change a thing.
All the old dials were just now going forward, reverse.
So you can actually take the e-motor out,
put the Rolls-Royce engine back in,
and everything would be fine.
We should be rolling.
Oh, my God.
Dude!
[high-pitched] Aaah!
Henry Royce wanted those cars to be electric in the first place,
so it's... you know...
You wanna have a car that's just quiet,
and it's peaceful, and it's luxury.
[no audio]
[engines revving]
[man 1] Thank you.
[Jason] Finally back with the Goodwood.
[man 2] Yeah.
It's one of my favorite places, the funniest events.
The Revival.
And, uh, last time I was here,
I did something really crazy.
Bought a 1929 Rolls-Royce.
[indistinct chatter]
-And how are you? -Wonderful, wonderful.
Good to have you here.
[Jason] You know, it's taken two years,
because of pandemic, because of, you know,
the time that it takes to make it, and then for me to come in.
So they'd have to wait at certain points so I could come in,
we could be a part of it.
Finally, it's really cool, how it all ended up coming together.
It was like, we're back two years later at Goodwood.
[engines idling]
Go.
[laughs]
[Jason] There's a lot of "pinch me" moments.
There's a lot of, like, "Wow, I can't believe we did this,"
but the end game of being at Goodwood,
and driving around London in a Phantom that's "E,"
it's the coolest thing,
going like, man, we made this come true.
And how many... how many technicians and artisans came in
to make this thing come true.
You're in a time capsule.
You're like... You just can't... You feel everything.
It makes me smile. My soul feels good.
I'm focused.
And hopefully, that just ripples out.
Hope it's inspiring to people.
I'm really just trying to...
It's just all the things I feel in my soul,
and I wanna... I wanna do it.