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first win
Later on a silver and blue 1951 Ford Panel Truck was his new mud truck that would become the first Grave Digger monster truck. It was the first major victory for Grave Digger. -
creation
Created in 1979 by North Carolina native Dennis Anderson, the first Grave Digger, made use of a 1952 Ford pickup truck body, which was lifted and equipped with big mud blog tires and a small block Chevy engine. -
becoming a legend
This was helped by Bigfoot not racing for points in the 1989 championship, leaving Grave Digger as the most popular truck on the tour. When TNT became a part of the United States Hot Rod Association in 1991, Anderson began running on the USHRA tour and debuted his first four-link truck, Grave Digger 3. -
grave digger wins championship
By winning this championship, Anderson etched the Grave Digger team in to the record books as they won every major championship in 2016 - both Monster Jam featuring the AMSOIL Series, the Monster Jam FS1 Championship Series, the 2016 World Racing championship and now the 2016 World Freestyle championship. -
the grave digger we know today
he is successful and a very popular racer to this day