This past weekend, the S3 crew headed downtown to snap a few shots of a R33 GTR that will be featured in an upcoming issue of the mag. We don’t wanna give away too many details before the issue drops, but expect to see 550hp, mag blue TE37’s, and a few other goodies. Also, big thanks to Eric Chang for joining us on the shoot and bringing along lots of fun lighting equipment for us to play with.
So the Mahdavi Motorsports guys got on PINKS, right. And it aired last night… so they had a little get together at the shop and we all watched it together. Mahdavi was sporting the Yellow 2JZ Cressida. Looks about as sexy as a taxi cab… but it took down two Mustangs for the win. Actually… the two Mustangs kinda took themselves down. But like Vin Diesel told us, “a win is a win” or “winning is winning” or something like that… I may not have it quoted right.
Anyway – here are some pics. And congrats to the Mahdavi crew for the victory. And thanks to the Mahdavi crew for their good sportsmanship on the show… and for representing The ATL with style and grace.
Sam Memmolo from Two Guys’ Garage
Mahdavi Motorsports – looking in
…show’s about to start
Pablo & beer
Sam Mahdavi looking presidential… as long as you ignore the plastic fork/knife/napkin package.
Today, Wooley and I made our way down to Ikea to start grabbing up stuff for the new office. We made a couple of scouting trips last week to start looking at stuff and finally returned today with a few dollars in hand (thanks to selling an old set of wheels). We didn’t get quite everything on the list yet but did manage to squeeze a full-sized office desk, 2 bookcases, a zebra print couch, bathroom mirror, coffee table, and side table into a Wooley’s PT Cruiser.
Here we see some of the goods while still in the warehouse section of the store. Note that the cool mini palm tree had to be abandoned today (we probably could have gotten it but it would have had to sit in my lap), however we’ll surely be back for it soon.
Around this point, we were starting to get seriously worried about all of this stuff fitting in Wooley’s cruiser, but continued anyhow. Made it through the checkout after about 15 minutes (we had this ordeal of wanting to use part cash/part credit card, and apparently the “real people” lanes don’t accept cash. This left us in the self checkout lane which wouldn’t read my credit card, but finally got help and got it all taken care of). Anyhow, finally got our goods down to the parking garage and quickly realized that the zebra couch was a bit too long for the PT. No worries, I had some MacGyver tactics up my sleeve and quickly grabbed up a few of the nice fabric Ikea bags I saw sitting on a shopping cart. With a little help from my multi-purpose pocket tool, I chopped off the cloth handles, ghetto rigged them together with some terrible knots, and managed to secure everything in the vehicle.
I was fairly certain that my rigging wouldn’t exactly hold, but amazingly enough we made it all the way back to Buford with no incidents. Upon our arrival there, we assembled the couch, coffee table, and side table, and got the beachy hang out room in the new place looking decent.
We’ll hopefully be returning soon for a second couch and a few other odds and ins (possibly a sandbox and hammock?) so check back soon to see the progress.
First of all, welcome to the new S3 blog. We’ve been meaning to start one of these things for ages but didn’t exactly get around to it until now. Be sure to check back often as this is way easier to update than our website and we’ll be constantly adding content from anything we get into.
Anyhow, figured we’d start this off with news of us moving to our new office. For the last 2 years, we’ve been renting a 5000+ sq. ft. basement in historic downtown Buford, GA, however we’ve decided it’s time to move on. The basement has a certain neat style to it, but sort of lacks heat, air conditioning, windows, among other things, and is way more room than we need. It’s also gotten to be a bit of a wreck over the years so in place of actually cleaning, we decided that moving would be a better option.
Our new home is pretty much right on top of our current office, and is a 2nd story space in a late 1800’s building on Main Street in downtown Buford. Even though it’s a smaller area, it’s laid out much better and has 6 individual rooms, windows, working heat and A/C, and a bit more style. There’s even a big hang out room that features an awesome beach wall print which we’re already enjoying. Check out the pics below, or click here to go to the gallery and see even more. Be sure to check back soon as we’ll be documenting the move over the next few weeks.
