HAVE YOU EVER SOLD A VEHICLE AND THEN INSTANTLY realized you made a big mistake? Chris Russell did, so he eventually tracked “his” rig down and bought it back. But there’s a lot more to the story.
Chris says, “Minty was purchased for $2,700 in May 2009. It was 100 percent bone-stock, with 120,000 miles, from its second owner. At the time, it was purchased as a daily driver, which would double as a work truck, being that I spend a lot of time working at tower sites on many Southern California mountaintops. The night we brought her home, we took the mother-in-law out to dinner. The moment she saw the truck, she blurted out, “Look! It’s minty fresh!” due to the Broncos mint green color. The name has stuck…