This Dart has had only four owners. Originally purchased by Jack Thomas, in Chicago, the Dart ran mainly in UDRA, and Jack was pretty successful. The second owner, in Iowa, raced the car for about a year, and then sold it to a racer in Maryland where it ran in Super Stock for a number of years. Dick Towers purchased the car in the late ‘80s, and still owns it.
“Psychotic Reaction,” has never been tubbed, and it still wears its original psychedelic paint scheme from 1968. It is very original and was raced only a few times. Bobby Harrup was a partner in the original deal, and he drove the car down the track a couple of times. The partnership then dissolved, and the car sat until the 1980s. Jim Kramer is the current owner. As Jim was getting the car ready for the show, he found the original Certicard above the glovebox.
Bill Bagshaw’s “Red Light Bandit” Dart is one of the original 1968 Hurst built cars that he raced in S/S in ‘68-’69, and Pro Stock in early 1970. The car was then sold to Jim & Walt Marshall in California, who raced the car in M/P. DeFrank & Cohen then raced it in S/S. It probably was the first ’68 super Stocker that they campaigned. Donny Chapman did some resto work on the car, and it is now owned by Gene Mosbek.
