[1] Jack Edward Bowsher was born on October 2, 1930, in Harmony, Ohio.
He graduated from Plattsburg High School in 1948 and served a year in the Navy in 1949.
Bowsher and Foyt were among the first drivers to test stock cars at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in the late 1960s.
Bowsher's Ford won the 1976 24 Hours of Daytona in the stock car class.
[2] In 1989, a month shy of his 59th birthday, Bowsher, who had not driven in a decade, reluctantly stepped out of retirement subbing for defending ARCA champion Tracy Leslie on the Springfield Mile Dirt Oval where he won the pole and finished 10th in the race on the lead lap.