On the Roam (2024) s01e06 Episode Script

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[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] 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♪
-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♪
- 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.
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]
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[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]
[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.