TRUCKS & TOYS
SABRA STILWELL 101 DRIVE BIG TRUCKS, SMILE AND WAVE AT THE PASSING DRAMA Written by: Jack Collier
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Stilwell runs “Stuntin’ Like My Daddy,” a giant Ford diesel named to honor her father, Scott. In fact, she’s had many mega mud trucks and swamp buggies that she’s owned over the last decade, entering into events and tearing up the mud.
"Stuntin' Like My Daddy" Sabra (said Say-bra) as a kid in rural Brooksville, Florida, was included in her father’s circle of excitement—fishing, scalloping, big trucks and quick buggies—and he passed that gene to his only daughter. Scott Stilwell died unexpectedly at age 47. Sabra’s mother, Jessie, died recently at 52. Sabra,
who is 31, and her younger brother, Logan, remain close. “Having a corporate job,” Sabra Stilwell says of her position in Tampa as a mortgage loan professional, “being outdoors brings me back home … to the Suwannee River, to fourwheeling and dirt roads. Our father taught us to live every Stilwell lives life to its fullest. No challenge too big or small, no matter the outcome.
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hether performing handstands in Machu Picchu, posing on top of triple Merc outboards, or fooling with the small alligators that amuse her, at heart Sabra Stilwell is a country girl happiest aboard her monster truck, full throttle in Florida's wide-open spaces.