RIP Dan "Grizzly Adams" Haggerty

I loved this show when I was a little kid. Dan passed away this morning, yet another cancer loss.

Dan Haggerty

He was in a great car movie, King Of The Hill.

honestly, i thought he died a few years ago?

Holy E36 M3

that's too damn many lately

RIP Grizzly Adams

That's too bad. I remember watching Grizzly Adams as a kid and really liked the show.

The year 2016, brought to you by George RR Martin.

Old Grizzly apparently had a 200mph street legal Lola T70:

"During the late 70's and early 80's there was in LA a group of legendry adrenalin junkies known as the ''Banzai Runners'' It was a very exclusive club , to join you had to achieve 200 mph on an LA freeway!!!!!They had a measured course and they would go out and run their cars at 3:00 A.M.. About the only cars that could qualify were T70 coupes and GT40's . Since Lola T70's were worthless to race they became the preferred platform to build up a 200 mph ''Banzai Runner''Such notible figures as ''Dan Haggerty'' of ''Grizzly Adams'' secured Lola chassis to convert to a ''Bonzai Runner''.The magazine ''Californian'' even did a story on these guys . In one article a Calif Highway Patrolman was interviewed about the Bonzai Runners . When asked what he would do when blown past by a 200 mph car his answer was ''nothing we don't even have a fixed wing plane that could follow them.''"

https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/14261/lot/232/

Lot 232 The Ex-Dan Hagerty 'Grizzly Adams',1969-70 Lola-Chevrolet T70GT Mark IIIB Group 4 Racing Coupé SL71/37 Sold for £122,500 (US$ 175,569) inc. premium

That's cheap for what it is.

Grizzly Adams was the man.

In reply to Appleseed:

That was almost ten years ago.

Nakoma, Mad Jack, #7, and the lesser known #6 helped make this show pretty neat. It's the absence of shows like this with the message it sent it each episode that has contributed to the fall of Western civilization.

drainoil wrote: Nakoma, Mad Jack, #7, and the lesser known #6 helped make this show pretty neat. It's the absence of shows like this with the message it sent it each episode that has contributed to the fall of Western civilization.

western civilization isn't doing any worse than it was when this show was airing new episodes, we just have the internet to tell us in real time how screwed up things have always been.

and is telling people to go out into the woods and play with grizzly bears really a good message to send to children? i mean, yeah, sure it will help weed out the weak and stupid, but lawyers would be all over the producers of the show if precious perfect little Timmy decided to go out into the woods to play with 1000 pound fur covered killing machines..

Sad to hear. Also sad about the motorcycle accidents/death in his/wife's life.