9 Sec Phil aka Phill Grover Happy Birthday & RIP

I hope God has Mopars in heaven. Happy Birthday

I had a pict of him when he rolled into MaTS that one year. Open trailer, regular cab dually diesel. They both looked like death warmed over. Not a lot of sleep on that trip!

Just for old time sake, since I know he wouldn't expect anything less from me, I'm gonna say We miss you 11sec Phil!!

RIP buddy.

Was remembering him over the weekend, being I was looking at his car pic on the wall in my garage

Met him at Carlisle...Great guy...RIP.

i met him for the only time when
he delivered a parts car to me the week before he went to fla.
after he got the car dropped off to me,
he spent the rest of whole afternoon into the evening for hours at the shop talking mopars,stuff in general and checking out all the junk i have around.
he made me uncover dig out everything..lol
one freaky thing is
i never imagined that it would be the first and last and only time i ever met the guy.

Phil andI uused to street race together years ago and had some great times. RIP Mopar brother.........

His old mechanical 6 pack setup, on my 71 demon now

Nice guy, met him at vmp

Yep I miss the big lug, everytime someone wants me to transport a car out east I think of him. Had a great time hauling to MATS with him 10 years ago, now THAT was a trip!

He trailered his cuda from NY to SE. PA to attend one of our local cruise nights, just because. What a great guy. I was digging thru some old car stuff and found the decal/sticker that someone on the board made in his memory.

We had a chicken BBQ at Lebanon Valley Drayway one Saturday...WOW was that some great eats...
RIP buddy!

good guy, RIP

Saw his Cuda at Carlisle but he was not there and I never got to meet him. RIP my friend. Ron

First thing I thought of when I saw him that one and only weekend.... cigarettes, truck stop coffee, Mountain Dew..... that's how you drive from PA to Las Vegas . Once they got the road grime washed off the Barracuda it was a dang nice car. He once was having issues with his 99 CTD. I sent him three used APPS sensors I had laying around for test modules to get him going again. They would only set idle validation codes once in a great while and didn't affect driving. Got him back in the saddle. He was just the kind of guy you'd do that for. Lots of them here I've met over the years.... some even not face to face.

RIP my friend. Phil and I made the trek to Norwalk. I broke a bunch of wheel studs on my trailer. He un-hooked his trailer and we went off searching for parts. He was a huge help in helping me fix my issues. He was a very good friend that died way too young.

I still remember there was some sort of full moon at Norwalk, I Think B3 might have had something to do with it!

Phil called me back in the mid to late 1980s when he was in the Air Force at GAFB in Victorville, I got to know him and his wife before they had thier daughter from that call. He had stuck a 383 in a 1972 Dart from back east, I ended up taking that car(Bob R has it now I think) in trade on a 1971 Duster that I had fixed up to go street racing in the high desert, which never happen because he ended up with that car. He ended up painting two cars for me before he left CA and use to stay with us here in Oregon on occasions when he was in this part of the country. It was really hard on me when I found out from his parents he had been killed on that motorcycle in FL, I know it was a lot harder on his family. RIP, my freind

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Phil called me back in the mid to late 1980s when he was in the Air Force at GAFB in Victorville, I got to know him and his wife before they had thier daughter from that call. He had stuck a 383 in a 1972 Dart from back east, I ended up taking that car(Bob R has it now I think) in trade on a 1971 Duster that I had fixed up to go street racing in the high desert, which never happen because he ended up with that car. He ended up painting two cars for me before he left CA and use to stay with us here in Oregon on occasions when he was in this part of the country. It was really hard on me when I found out from his parents he had been killed on that motorcycle in FL, I know it was a lot harder on his family. RIP, my freind

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Cab I have the dart now, still a big block, and still street driven in the summer. Jack