Digging My Own Grave

I've crushed cars before. My first was an '87 Oldsmobile station wagon that I smashed into a divider two weeks after getting my license. Since then, I've crashed into an I-Roc, a Camry and two Jeeps--which is not bad considering that I haven't owned a car in eight years. So when I was offered an opportunity to drive Grave Digger, the most famous monster truck in monster truckdom, I felt qualified.

I headed up to Connecticut's Stafford Motor Speedway to meet Dennis Anderson, the man who built Grave Digger in 1981 and still drives it whenever his shoulder is attached to...