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CHADbee
04-02-2012, 02:02 PM
Yesterday the Forged Performance Team left our Marietta location to make the 20 minute journey to the monthly Caffeine and Octane Car Meet in Alpharetta, Georgia. After an early morning, spirited, yet totally law abiding cruise we arrived at the meet a little before 8am and claimed our parking spots. We spent most of the morning talking with customers, friends and strangers about everything cars and still managed to make a few laps around the parking lot to check out the impressive display of classics, muscle cars, cruisers, rat rods, exotics and imports. The quality and quantity of this monthly meet continues to grow as the warm weather quickly approaches us. While I did spend quite a bit of time socializing I did find the time to snap a few quick photos of the autos, people and even pets in attendance:

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By lunchtime the mass crowd of cars and people started to dwindle and I was able to get my remaining group of friends and co-workers together for a group photo. Immediately after Robert, who is a good friend of ours invited us to his upscale BBQ restaurant for lunch. We quickly spread the word among friends and wrapped up another successful trip to Caffeine and Octane. 15 minutes later we arrived at our lunch spot and I carefully maneuvered my way out of the Forged Performance Time Attack GT-R. The parking lot was full of high horsepower performance cars including: a Whipple 4.0L Ford GT, Viper ACR, Corvette ZR1, blown Grand Sport C6 Corvette, turbo NSX, supercharged NSX, track prepped 350Z, upgraded turbo Evo, a handful of Nissan GT-R's and more! We spent the next two hour stuffing our faces with Georgia's best BBQ and talking shop!

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After our lunchtime get together we quickly decided to visit Andretti's Speedlab for some competitive karting! Sharif, Ryan and Alex are always battling it out for the top spot at Andretti's, while I am slow compared to those guys I always tag along and just have an absolute blast!

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When the dust settled something very strange happened, Sharif and Ryan tied to the 1/1000th of a second for fastest lap of the day!

To see more photos of our eventful day with friends please visit the: FORGED PERFORMANCE BLOG (http://www.forgedperformance.com/index.php?option=com_wordpress&p=1034)
Vteckidd
04-02-2012, 02:27 PM
Was the FORGED GTR in downtown Atlanta on Saturday? I heard a rediculously loud exhaust from my condo by Centennial Park , i looked out my window and saw a White r35 driving down Marietta Street headed toward CNN center with gaphics all over it. I assume there is only 1 white GTR stickered up in atlanta?

If it was them, tell them i could hear their exhaust all the way up on the 7th floor lol
CHADbee
04-02-2012, 02:30 PM
Was the FORGED GTR in downtown Atlanta on Saturday? I heard a rediculously loud exhaust from my condo by Centennial Park , i looked out my window and saw a White r35 driving down Marietta Street headed toward CNN center with gaphics all over it. I assume there is only 1 white GTR stickered up in atlanta?

If it was them, tell them i could hear their exhaust all the way up on the 7th floor lol

That would be me lol

Sorry about that good Sir.

EDIT: I was in Atlanta for the Ga Tech Car Show. Will have a video of me driving around downtown and the show up tomorrow hopefully.
Vteckidd
04-02-2012, 03:00 PM
yeah i was getting ready to leave and i heard this awfully loud mean ass exhaust note. Usually its bikers , occasionally some rich kid in a lambo.

I looked out and saw the GTR and i figured it was one of you guys haha
CHADbee
04-02-2012, 03:12 PM
yeah i was getting ready to leave and i heard this awfully loud mean ass exhaust note. Usually its bikers , occasionally some rich kid in a lambo.

I looked out and saw the GTR and i figured it was one of you guys haha

That is pretty funny. I thought the car sounded pretty nice on the downshifts with the exhuast echoing off the buildings in downtown hehe
SHHHH
04-02-2012, 03:15 PM
Nice pictures :goodjob:




That is pretty funny. I thought the car sounded pretty nice on the downshifts with the exhuast echoing off the buildings in downtown hehe

Hahaha that is always my reasoning to head up to Atlanta :goodjob:
1civic
04-02-2012, 03:24 PM
Why do girls wear pants that don't fit? I mean do they think the fat rolls, aka love handles look sexy... Geezzz, lay off the burgers..


Carry on!!
CHADbee
04-02-2012, 03:26 PM
Nice pictures :goodjob:





Hahaha that is always my reasoning to head up to Atlanta :goodjob:
Thanks!

Why do girls wear pants that don't fit? I mean do they think the fat rolls, aka love handles look sexy... Geezzz, lay off the burgers..


Carry on!!

Don't judge me.

lol
Drummerboy
04-02-2012, 05:16 PM
lol, poor chad, came in 15th... I guess that's why you're the photog and not the race car driver. lol. Jk man.


btw, any pics/vids of randal's red nismo 350z that was getting tuned at forged last week?
CHADbee
04-02-2012, 06:07 PM
lol, poor chad, came in 15th... I guess that's why you're the photog and not the race car driver. lol. Jk man.


btw, any pics/vids of randal's red nismo 350z that was getting tuned at forged last week?

Haha! I know right, I'm ok with #15 of the day. I'm slow there compared to those guys, then again they are active circuit track drivers and I'm just an active circuit track photographer lol
2turbo4u
04-02-2012, 06:34 PM
The best picture is the one of the dog
thepolecat
04-02-2012, 08:42 PM
Thumbs up to the Model A as your first shot i this line-up!
simon_lude
04-02-2012, 09:42 PM
Best quote I heard all weekend was "I feel so poor whenever I come to these." :lmfao:
tnomud
04-02-2012, 10:10 PM
Why do girls wear pants that don't fit? I mean do they think the fat rolls, aka love handles look sexy... Geezzz, lay off the burgers..


Carry on!!

oh no...

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1civic
04-02-2012, 10:49 PM
Random vent...
thetaste
04-05-2012, 10:02 AM
Lots of drooling over the GTRs man.
The cars are nice.
I have some video and pics I need to go through and put up.

the white car was loud, but sounded sick!
CHADbee
04-05-2012, 03:32 PM
The best picture is the one of the dog
Haha! That is Ryan@Forged's puppy :)

Thumbs up to the Model A as your first shot i this line-up!
I try my best to shoot a diverse amount of vehicles

Best quote I heard all weekend was "I feel so poor whenever I come to these." :lmfao:
ROFL!!!!

Lots of drooling over the GTRs man.
The cars are nice.
I have some video and pics I need to go through and put up.

the white car was loud, but sounded sick!
Thank you! The shop Time Attack car is crazy loud but I just love the exhaust note!
Axix23
04-06-2012, 10:37 AM
MORE PICS PLEASE
CHADbee
04-06-2012, 10:55 AM
MORE PICS PLEASE

There is a few more on our Flickr Page, follow the link at the end of the OP to our blog.