Childress Brothers To Appear For Cruise-In
TV personalities will be visiting Warsaw this weekend for the Warsaw Breakfast Optimist Club’s 5th annual City of Lakes Cruise-In on the courthouse square.
Jason and Lonnie Childress, owners of Gateway Classic Mustang in St. Louis, Mo., will be special guests of Warsaw Breakfast Optimist Club Members Rusty and Tammy Meier at the Sunday, May 18 event.
The Childress brothers are regulars on hit TV shows like Overhaulin’ and Hot Rod TV, and will star in their very own primetime TV show “RestoMods” airing this fall on the History Channel.
Gateway Classic Mustang is known for their quality with superior performance for classic Mustang restoration and manufacturing of their Signature Ford Mustang Performance Suspension: Gateway Performance Suspension. Several GCM restorations have been featured specifically for various magazine cover stories and television productions, ultimately landing them a deal in 2006 to build the “Red Rocker,” a 1967 Ford Mustang fastback to highlight the 60th birthday Rock N Roll tour for Sammy Hagar.
The build was featured on an episode for Hot Rod TV on the Speed Channel in which they partnered with Warsaw resident Rusty Meier to do the conceptual design and development of the composite body components needed for the build. This project secured their popularity as go-to personalities in the aftermarket automotive industry.
Recently, GCM has been a part of several noteworthy projects such as the Woods Brothers/David Pearson project to benefit the Darrell Gwynn Foundation and the most recent being the Auto Trader Classics “1969 Boss 302” powered by Ford’s new and soon to be legendary Coyote 5.0.
The 1968 Mustang fastback built for Chad McQueen, son of legendary Steve McQueen who starred in the 1968 movie “Bullitt,” of which a 2-hour mini-series of this build was aired on the D.I.Y. network in early 2009.
The Childress Brothers were also featured in multiple races on the SPEED channel “R U Faster Than A Redneck?” where Classic American Muscle car owners were challenged to race with late model import owners to go head to head in a series of road races for a prize of $10,000.
Both cars — a yellow 1968 Ford Mustang Coupe and a Burgundy 1966 GT fastback featured and driven by Jason and Lonnie Childress in the television series — will be downtown Warsaw on the Courthouse Square this Sunday. Registration is from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m., judging will start at 4 p.m., awards ceremony at 5:15 p.m. and the escorted cruise to Winona Lake at 6 p.m.