Bill Bagshaw's Red Light Bandit Challenger

[Hemi Moose]

Did you dig up anymore history on the car when this person had it...

[Charlie A]

[Svendsen]

Originally Posted by mopar68

Arvid,

I'd like to know the history of the car after Bagshaw sold it up to the time it was delivered to Bucky Hess' shop in less-than-pristine condition.

Thanks,

M68

Unfortunately, we don't know the entire owner history. Bill sold the RLB Challenger in '73 to Jim Marshall (pic attached), the same guy who bought Bagshaw's '68 Dart in 1970. The next 21 years are not known, we don't really know how long Marshall held on to the car. The car was found in 1994 by John Gastman when he went to buy a Viper in Kansas. John believes that the owner did not know it was the Red Light Bandit car, John didn't know what it was either. However, he knew it was something unique with all the fabricated panels and lightening holes.

John bought the Viper and this basket case Challenger with a ton of parts, a lot of them turned out to be parts that Bagshaw used. We checked the numbers on one of the 426 motors that came with the deal, then checked with a guy who knows the 68 cars, and concluded that it was probably the motor that Bill had in the '68 Dart. Bill had used the '68 motor in his Challenger, along with a couple other motors.

Further, Bill always painted his motors and tranmissions Krylon Cherry red, but the motors and trans that came with the car were orange. However, Bucky scraped the paint away on the motor, and there was cherry red paint found under the orange... trans, same cherry red under the orange paint. I'll try to find the pic of that red paint under the orange that Bucky sent us. Of course, Bill rebuilt that 426 motor, and then used that original orange/red trans that came with the car.

Arvid Svendsen