In my lifetime, as a vehicle owner/operator (40 years now this month!), I’ve owned one “mini-truck;” it was a ’76 Datsun 620 that, save for a healthy lowering job and a set of Porsche 356 hubcaps literally hammered onto the OE wheels, was primarily stock (the modification in ride height is what deemed it a mini-truck!). Every other small-size pickup I’ve owned has either been completely stock or semi lifted. Suffice it to say, I’ve never considered myself a mini-trucker. However, my career began with the tutelage and close friendship of Courtney “Tito” Halowell, then-editor of MiniTruckin’, so my exposure to the world of minis was, let’s just say, much more in-depth than the average person.
Of all the things Halowell was involved with, he devoted a major part of…
