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Dennis Anderson has been a part of my life for 30 years. Grave Digger has always been my favorite truck... Thank you Dennis for making so many great memories...

I could just listen to Dennis tell stories forever. Such an incredible guy and they don’t get more down to earth.

Dennis is an icon of motorsports and Ryan is completely insane and naturally gifted behind the wheel

Monster trucks wouldn’t be where they are today if it wasn’t for Dennis Anderson! He is the man, the myth and the legend. The godfather of monster trucks! 👍🤘

Dennis Anderson and Grave Digger are legends.

man tom this is great shows people still care about eachother thanks for sharing

Just when I've lost all faith in humanity BAM tom Bailey shows up and damn near makes me cry. The world needs more ppl like Tom.

The OG Bigfoot did it before anyone else. Bob Chandler owned Midwest Performance in Missouri. We hung out there a bunch as kids.

I remember watching the first air brushed green truck on TV as a kid. He did win stuff but always broke things. I learned to cheer for the underdog watching Grave Digger!

Great interview with the Dennis and his son.

That is a whole lot of history with the Gravedigger family! Very glad you were able to share that with the rest of the world. The pizza trailer looks kick ass!!! The closest I’ll come to getting some of that Deep dish will be if you take it on Midwest Drag Week and have to fix something coming through town again.

The best I’ve seen with true heroes of our love for anything automotive,great job Tom👍🏻

I had a flashbulb memory of the wife and I going to the Oakland Coliseum back in the late 80’s and watching Dennis Anderson run the Gravedigger in the old drag race configuration down the first and third baselines. Definitely not like the freestyle that they run today but it was still a good time. Fast forward a few years later I had a neighbor who worked for a towing company and the owner had a big rig tow truck and was deep into the Monster Truck scene and he would have all of the monster trucks in his shop repairing their rigs between shows and it was a good time hanging out with the gang and climbing into those rigs and helping out with the teams.

That was a great gift for Ricks retirement not many people show how much they appreciate reliable honest people that have worked for them long enough to retire congratulations Rick

Tom your a class act . Really nice to see a boss that really gives a care of their employees. Or extended family

thanks Tom! I love this. Thanks for some history on Grave Digger! more of this kind of content is awesome! next time you run a drag N drive I will hope for a 5.88!

I retired at 60 last year and didn't even get a pen. Congratulations buddy and nice job Tom...!

It’s so wonderful to see this I can remember watching on tv back in the mid to late 80’s . Then I got older and built my first 327 and bought king racing bearings because that’s what grave digger used was king bearings rods and main journal that is !

That tour was outstanding, tons of monster truck information that I did not know. Thanks for the great visit!

I remember my dad taking me to the Nashville show. After the show they would let the kids run down and meet the drivers. Dennis signed my poster of him. It was great. Can’t believe I don’t remember where that poster went. I was prolly 8 maybe 10 years old. Good times. First monster truck guy I ever meet and been hooked ever since.. great great guy

Reminds me of my pops 40 ford panel. He had a vet fuelie in it and pulled a wheel back in 1970. Slow by today standard. So awesome to see the progress!

Dude that was pretty cool. I've always been a drag racing guy. Traffic light goes green, you all know what I mean. I'm nearly 60 now but back in the day all we had was TV in Australia. The first time I saw Grave digger on TV I was in awe. Followed Dennis ever since.

Great interview with Dennis. Loved hearing him tell his story of the Grave Digger trucks.

Thanks for the monster tour. Everything is large. How things change - the history explanation is so relatable and understandable to me… (Early year truck person here).

Grave Digger is my most favorite monster truck of all time… Loved this rig since I was a kid

Wow , now that was different ! And very interesting ; quite a success story. Many thanks for this video.

Awesome Tom to give Rick the retirement gift hell of a boss and friend !!!!

the only thing wrong with this video is that it ended. i could easily watch another 3 maybe 4 days worth of this 🤘

After watching this, we are vacationing in the NC this year. We may have to take a ride over and check it out. Thanks for showing this .

Dennis brought King Sling to a mud park here in GA. He was one of the most down to earth people I've ever met.

Man that Pizza looks great with that thick crust that I just love.

Love the content. You and Dennis talking shop about the good ole days was great!

That’s really generous of you. Awesome Boss

Really awesome that you did that for the guy who is retiring. I have had the same job since 99 and lucky to get a decent paycheck every week and it is a family business. Just me and my father. At least he is making a great living.

As someone that trail rides sleds this is awesome. Great retirement gift.

Thanks for the video, my friend. Sitting here, bored at work and this gave me something to watch to kill an hour. Pretty cool stories from Dennis and Adam. I always thought they should make some Go Karts style monster trucks for the guys to have fun with it some of the shows.

THANK YOU FOR TAKING ME TO GRAVE DIGGER 😍😃

My dad used to run a Predator on his CJ-5 401 AMC that he built for sand drags when I was a kid back in the early 80’s. Sold it all before I was old enough to drive. Man I wish I still had that thing!!!!

Great Video, pizza looked yummy! Very nice retirement gift!!!!

Thanks I enjoyed the longer video it was full of great content thanks again

I'll have to look for the picture. I have a picture of the old Grave Digger when it came to the York Fairgrounds in Pennsylvania and the last thing they did was have another (2 total) monster truck drive up on either side of the front wheels. 😮😮 It was an awesome show

Been following you since your car was in HotRod magazine,pulling the trailer with the gear vendors overdrive.........great content thank you sir, and maams

Congrats Frank on your retirement. Love the Grave Digger content. By far as a kid Dennis Anderson was and is still my favorite monster truck driver with Grave Digger

I love every bit of the media that Tom Bailey puts out

Thanks for sharing. I learned a lot.

OMGosh I'm so hungry. Your pizza looks SICK mmm love you guys and GOD BLESSED

Back when I was stationed in Virginia I got my income tax and found an old ex military 1.25 ton 4 door chevy on 40s with a built SBC in it supposedly from or built by one of digger’s mechanics. Drove all the way to OBX to pick it up and drove it back to post in Virginia. Was a great truck.

While ive never seen a monster truck show they are cool as hell. And ive had the priveledge of working on gravediggers tires as a giant tire guy. No clue who they were for and when i was told to dress the treads down pretty far i was confused cause the tires were fresh. Turns out they take alot of the tread down so they can spin the tires good and whatnot. Pretty awesome

This was friggin Bitchin Tom the diggers dungeon really enjoyed Dennis and Ryan the tour trucks and unattainable parts two thumbs up. Love y’all.

I remember when monster trucks where made from real trucks like Big Foot and Grave Digger I have pictures of me sitting in the tire of a monster truck and another sitting on top of the tire but use to go to the Pontiac Silverdome and watch the monster trucks every year back in the 1980's and into the early 90's. I was a big fan of Grave Digger and use to think Dennis Anderson was crazy when he would do the freestyle him and Tom Meents was the most craziest monster truck drivers in freestyle it was awesome.

Great show Tom. Congrats Rick on your retirement.

Fred Bauman(?) painted the first Grave Digger panel. I believe USA-1 did the Mississippi River run October 13th or 14th of 1984. I also recall Bearfoot, Bigfoot, All American, Little All American, The Eagle, Cardiff Giant and others performing water navigation feats with their trucks.

Grave Digger history was priceless !!! 😎👍

Nice pizza that going to be good at the track

Way cool. Great job.

There's a lot of knowledge about engines and just vehicles in general in that room ..I could see Tom and Dennis being good friends and bet they both have stories for days

This was an amazing episode

Gotta say digger has been my favorite truck ever!

Awesome , Love me some Grave digger stuff.

Congrats Rick!!!

Dam,this might just be my favorite video you've done.....so far! I've been going by Diggers Dungeon for 35 of my 49yrs...yearly!!! I've watched it grow as I've grown. I wish I'd known you were in KDH! I've sent my pop (who lives in Duck) the picture of 1.0 in the rain with the trailer askin "what would Duck's finest say if this rolled in....?" Dam I wished I'd known, I'd drove down from Delaware and saved you hotel money...!!! DAMM!!!

Awesome Tom your a great boss!

Great video !

Very cool!🤙

I remember going to watch gravedigger every year in orlando

I haven't watched the video yet but I remember watching a video of Grave Digger driving in the ocean when I was little and I cannot find the video online anywhere last time I looked

Grave Digger is the equivalent of Evel Knievel in monster trucks every kid wanted to be Dennis Anderson

Detroit style is the bomb!!! Had my wedding reception at Buddy's in Dearborn.

Congrats to the retirere ! Awesome retirement gift!

Awesome video.

Remember back when big foot,driven by bob Chandler.Bob put on a show. Such as. Being pulled by a bull rope,and his famous tire walk while waving his cowboy hat. Thought no one can beat this guy for showing off. Then Dennis Anderson pulled off a 150ft wheelie, the crown went wild with that move. Still remember that til the day I die. First time anyone even though of doing that back then with a monster truck. I was in my early teens by in the early 80's. Was in Atlanta old basketball stadium, called the Omni, . That day Forward I was a digger fan. Think Dennis called kill devel hills home. Was a perfect place to fix the trucks theme to also.

40:45 wow it looks amazing Never seen that grave digger 🥹❤️

That Panting Pup! Lmao

Salute to you as you value your employee's like family 👪

💚 💀 The Digger... I remember watching all the Bigfoot Monster trucks and all the crazy things Dennis Anderson did in Grave Digger back when I was younger, in the late 80's. It really inspired the whole thing of monster trucks today. I live in a little town called Aledo Illinois. I had this buddy I went to school with back in the day, well until he dropped out named... Larry Quick AKA "Boogie". He lived in this little crappy run down house on the main drag of town that's now gone for being condemned. Back then, I remember see him dragging up big tractor tires and frame and welding on stuff at this little house, and I'm like... Boogie, what heck are you doing??? He's like I'm building a monster truck... at the time I'm like... 🤣 OK sure you are... I couldn't believe he would actually finish and get it done. It got him noticed and he did run with the Monster Jam guys for a while... He is actually is the Originator of the back flip the 1st one ever. Now drive to his own show, which is just awesome!... Quick Motorsports, and him with his 69' Mustang looking "Ghost Rider" . He's owns several trucks kind of a family business thing. There shops is in Alexis, not too far away... He still lives only a few blocks away still here in this same little small town. He's a really awesome guy, really hard to believe where he came from and to what all he has done, slimply because of the love and awesomeness of monster trucks.

Was just at the motor shop there the other week getting a tour around with Richard

Grave Digger was my childhood! Only thing I cared about lol

Bad ass company loved your videos💪🏼👍Aloha from Hawaii🤙🏽😎🌴

The best part of that original spooky GD was the rear doors that had the grim reaper on them. When he stood the truck up on the rear it crushed the doors. Find the pictures of those and add that to the museum.

Yes he did! Grave Digger

And yes, OG Anderson did a lot of stuff before punkstroke or strokinmax or whatever, was a twitch in his pappy's overalls!!!!!

Awesome video

Damn DoooooooDE (Damn DUDE) can’t believe u did such a great and awesome kind thing for ur oldest employees and friends. Damn how sweet, got the guy a brand new Skidoo’s and a decent truck as well. I’m flabbergasted . Won’t find this type of kindness often anymore. Oh wait did ya ever tho.

Me and my buddy went to a monster truck show in😅 the late 80s in Lima Ohio, grave digger was there, 87-88, were were from the local area, it was sweet, it was dark out, then these red lights turn on , there he was

Dennis is an icon and is a hall of frame in my eyes but when they steped in and tuck the fun out of MT thats when I quite watching

I love Dennis Anderson he is such a good guy

Awesome video/ and abilities

Same way we build buggys here in South Florida everglades is the king of swamps im old enough to remember the first time grave digger was @ the orange bowl in Miami

Man that’s cool Rudy’s diesel is near me went by there Monday

I could hangout there all day long!!!

Tom you are a Legend

Yes

Best freakn intro everrrrrrrrrr

I would say rewind to about 57 mins and look at the bench behind them and look at those ring and pinions !!!! and also check out firepunk diesel what they and there builders do ! cheers from Vic BC Canada

That’s a beautiful trailer. As a person that’s been in that business I can say you’re very limited in space inside a trailer. It’s hard to produce a lot of 1 item such as pizza. I recommend looking into other food items to include on your menu. Also a black wrap is going to make the temperature in the trailer even hotter not including the oven. Also not all events have enough electricity available to run ac’s. I’ve done shows that we could only run the light’s because of the lack of electricity. Good luck and best wishes with the trailer. It’s a tough business but it’s a lot of fun.

Im a good welder and i use to mig weld tubes like what goes into the cars.

I remember that!

Awesome you hooked up your employee for his retirement.

SICK VIDEO

I miss the old days of monster trucks that were show trucks that crushed cars, and were made from real trucks. New trucks are cool but don’t have the soul that the old trucks did. I was fortunate enough to see grave digger as a ford panel and the next year chevy panel in its heyday