TRUCK NAME: Bad Medicine
MAKE: Chrysler
OWNER/ DRIVER: Don Van Loo
TOWN/CITY: Jefferson City, Missouri
INFORMATION: The Bad Medicine truck made it’s debut, in the 1991 Camel Monster Truck Challenge. In one of it’s races, the driver, Don Van Loo was knocked unconscious at the end of the track & fell on the throttle & charged straight into the wall. Don was unhurt in the incident & wasn’t even taken to hospital. In March of 1993 another accident occurred with the “Bad Medicine” truck that clamed the life a guest member of the towing crew hired to do the show. The man was 82-year old Lester Gilliam. Right before his death, he pushed a young child to safety saving him from near certain death. The throttle stuck on Don VanLoo’s truck. His truck, which started in the right lane of a side by side race, crossed hard to the left and ran over Lester, who was standing at the end of the track.
Van Loo has owned a couple of monster tanks, Battle Trax, which was a Dodge pick-up and Ram Trax which was a Dodge caravan. He also owned the Magnum Force monster truck, which he later sold, and was re-named ‘Little Tiger’. The chassis was built and designed by Dan Patrick, owner of Sampson. VanLoo is now racing dirt track stock cars.