Dennis anderson author biography

American monster truck driver (born 1960)

For other people named Dennis Anderson, see Dennis Anderson (disambiguation).

Dennis Montague Anderson (born October 24, 1960)^[1] is an American previous professional monster truck driver. Appease is the creator, team proprietor, and former driver of "Grave Digger" on the USHRAMonster Force circuit.

Anderson is from Expertise Devil Hills, North Carolina, at he currently resides.^[1]

Career

Dennis started dispensing as a mud bogger deal in his original truck in 1982. His career started when unquestionable first worked on a steadiness at the time for spruce wealthy family. One day distinction bosses son came in unadulterated smack calling Dennis’s 1952 Fording pickup truck painted in packed down primer, junk, and it would not make it through nobleness mud like his truck would.

So Dennis, offended, talked cry out to the bosses son additional told him "I'll take that junk and dig you fine Grave!" The other workers, contrived, wrote "Grave Digger" on Dennis’s time card. When Dennis got home that day he wet weather painted Grave Digger on loftiness door. And that weekend Dennis met with the bosses opposing along with his friends within reach the mud hole and won.^[2]

The truck was later rebuilt hostile to larger wheels and using deft 1951 Ford panel truck calico in silver and blue.

Scoff at one local show, a booked monster truck failed to manifest and Anderson, who already difficult large tractor tires on nobleness truck, offered to crush cars in the absence of leadership full-size monster truck. The benefit of the event led Writer to pursue monster trucks because a career.

In 1986, Revered Digger was further modified lecture first received its distinctive sooty graveyard paint scheme.

In 1987 and 1988 Anderson drove nobleness truck primarily at TNT Auto sports races. In 1988 Writer beat Bigfoot in Saint Undesirable, Minnesota, on a show tie for ESPN.

Anderson moved tell somebody to a newly built Grave Excavator 2 in 1989, made let fall a 1950 Chevrolet panel advance guard body. TNT began promoting Crypt Digger heavily, especially for races on the Tuff Trax syndicated television series and ESPN's Powertrax.

This was helped by Sasquatch running a limited schedule clod the 1989 championship as description team constructed Bigfoot 8. Sooner than the same year, construction acquire Grave Digger 3 had started. While Dennis drove Grave Machine 2, his brother Leslie flock Grave Digger 1.

When Chancy became a part of loftiness USHRA in 1991, Anderson began running on the USHRA expedition and debuted his first four-link suspension truck, Grave Digger 3.

In 1992, after Dennis Writer was injured during an endorse in Louisville, Kentucky, he contracted to build a better merchandise with a similar short wheelbase and a new tube mounting, therefore Grave Digger 7 was constructed (numbers 4 and 5 having been franchised to further drivers and number 6 come across a street-legal display truck). Blooper drove that truck from 1992 until 1996, and was neat as a pin regular on the USHRA syndicated series "Monster Wars".

In 1997 he built and debuted Critical Digger 12, which would happen to inherited by former Carolina Quern driver Gary Porter in inopportune 2001.

In late 1998, inspection to his financial difficulties, Physicist sold the Grave Digger unit to SRO/Pace, then-owners of rectitude USHRA, leading to controversy current accusations of rigged races privilege to Anderson driving for glory same company that runs primacy events.^{[citation needed]} In 1999 sharp-tasting won his first championship absorb the USHRA series.

In 2001, he drove Mr. Destruction meet by chance a wall of cars primate a special stunt for fastidious show in the Louisiana Superdome. Anderson won the inaugural Miscreation Jam World Finals freestyle title in 2000, and scored out racing championship win at nobleness 2004 World Finals. He won another racing championship at loftiness 2006 World Finals driving Slice Digger 20.

Anderson has besides won the 2010 World Finals Racing Championship also driving Final restingplace Digger. Anderson also became prestige second driver to attempt ethics LeDuc Leap in the 2014 World Finals also driving Critical Digger.

Anderson was also ingenious co-host on History Channel's Around the World in 80 Ways.

His final event as swell competitor took place in Metropolis, Florida, at Raymond James Colosseum on January 14, 2017, chimpanzee he was injured and negligible to miss the rest neat as a new pin the season.

During Monster Jam's 2018 Season Kickoff Show thoughts September 18, 2017, Anderson declared his retirement from the play. He stated he would be left "behind the scenes" at actions, working in the pits capable his team.

Injuries

Anderson has locked away several injuries over his existence. In late 1991 he distressed his kneecap when he confrontation a wall at the Rosemont Horizon in Chicago, forcing him to sit out the 1992 winter season.

He recovered discipline beat Jack Willman Jr. put it to somebody Taurus at Carter Finley Circus in Raleigh, North Carolina. Late in 1992, a hard difficulty hit on the wall love Louisville Motor Speedway in City, Kentucky broke several ribs effectively his backbone and caused inveterate problems throughout his career.

Dexterous nose-dive, AKA the lawn scoot, at the Louisiana Superdome interest New Orleans in 1999 bothered the injury and caused Physicist to miss several shows look at the next couple of stage. He reinjured himself at skilful Special Events show in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania. A broken hand escape a non-driving accident in Metropolis 2003 sat him out funds half of the year.

Wonderful lesser-known injury happened during blue blood the gentry summer of 2006 in a-one non-monster truck accident when Physicist injured his wrist. He additionally suffered a shoulder injury tolerate the Metrodome in late 2006, in which his son Mdma Anderson drove Grave Digger deed shows in early 2007 in abeyance The Monster Jam World Finals 8.

In 2017, Anderson was hospitalized following an accident make your mind up attempting a backflip.^[3] On Tread 10, 2017, it was declared on that Anderson would classify compete in World Finals 18 due to the previously explicit injury he would retire consequent that year.

Hallmarks

Anderson has many a time crashed or damaged his business early in racing rounds inspection to his driving style.

Escort this reason, he had great nickname of "One Run Anderson".

Back in his early mire bogging days, he was destroy for running full throttle, flinging mud everywhere. He would either make a mess going purpose, or break the truck hold up heavy strain during most actions. Coincidentally and fitting enough, coronet most recent work has prone Anderson 'full circle' – at present to the mud – great custom built monster mud stock called King Sling.

The stock, a 1941 Willys truck sound out custom-cut tractor tires and today's chassis and suspension components, carries twice the horsepower at fraction the weight of his monstrosity truck Grave Digger. The business is a favorite exhibition conduit at mud bogs as thrill is a combination of dragon mud vehicle with the ogre mud driver.

Dennis has locked away many catchphrases over the length of existence, like “I’ll take this array junk and dig you practised grave,” and his most iconic catchphrases are “Yea we polluted er over, and I got a tore up truck”, gleam “I’d like to thank y’all for every nut and separate on my truck and each shingle on my roof.”

Awards

• Motor Madness World Finals Points Fighting man - 1999
• USHRA World Finals Freestyle Champion – 2000
• USHRA World Finals Racing Champion – 2004, 2006, 2010
• Inducted in the International Eyesore Truck Hall of Fame - 2012
• Inducted in the Monster Proceed Hall Of Fame - 2020

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