This Guy’s Garage – Chris Agee

This is a story about having fun with cars. This shop doesn’t strike you as having a lot of character in the tradition of old gas station signs and automobilia, but the cars were so interesting we couldn’t resist. On a recent trip to Jon Kaase’s shop in Winder, Georgia, we visited Chris Agee’s shop in nearby Loganville. Chris owns a company called Sprinkles Irrigation, and in his spare time, he builds custom Fords for customers out of his Chris Agee Resto-Racing shop. What is just out of sight from behind the ’66 Fairlane is an incredibly cool, orange ’67 Mustang that began as a restomod using the drivetrain from a wrecked ’09 GT500 Shelby Mustang with its 500hp supercharged 5.4L engine. But then Chris decided to include the dash, and not long after, he literally swapped in nearly all of the ’09 floorpan, the entire interior, the dash, and the uncut wiring harness. The only non-’09 drivetrain piece was a 9-inch rearend out of the late-model Cobra Jet race cars that included the trigger wheels for the fully functional four-wheel disc brakes and ABS. “One of the hardest parts,” Chris says, “was adapting the late-model windshield wipers into the stock cowl. That took some time.” Perhaps even more amazing was that Chris and his team converted the Mustang in roughly six months. We would also be remiss if we didn’t mention Chris’ pair of 8-second Mustang Cobra Jet drag race cars. Right now, the remaining cars in the shop deserve their own moments in the sun.

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