Chris’s passion for cars and speed started when his mother’s friend, Tom, took him for a ride in his 1930s Chevrolet T bucket. The car had a 383 stroker motor running on race gas and the smell, the noise, and the acceleration had Chris hooked immediately.

Not long after and while he was in high school, the first Fast and the Furious movie came out and Chris knew he had found his purpose in life. The passion he found for performance, mixed with a God-given talent to be able to work on cars so easily, kept him off the troubled road he was heading down.

Chris, who grew up in New York, was blessed to meet an amazing automotive teacher, John Santoli, at Long Island’s BOCES educational program. John showed Chris a tremendous amount of respect and took the enthusiastic young man under his wing. Chris went on to win two competitions in the Northeast region of the United States and became the best technician in the high school program; the win also blessed Chris with full scholarships to schools across the United States and gifted him with his first starter set of Snap-On tools.

In July of 2014, Chris took a huge step and opened his shop, Furcheto Performance, in Orlando, Florida, where he specialized in GM performance work.

After ten years, he took a leap of faith and joined up with his longtime friend and fellow shop owner, Justin Jordan, to create a one-stop domestic performance shop that combines two of the best technicians in the South!