View Full Version : What's the best truck / vehicle for funnin on the beach?
RiverOtter
12-09-2004, 07:33 AM
I take my Burb out there cause it's the only truck we have. Bout didn't make it through the soft sand :shock: . Lots of room but way too heavy. Looks like the Jeeps just float over the sand 8) . Is there an official Beach Truck? 8)
Nothing official. But there are real 4-wheel drives and there are pretenders.
A few years ago, you never saw a vehicle without rust or mismatched paint job. Now it's mostly $30,000+ trucks and SUVs. :shock:
You should add a 4th option: Keep your vehicle on the road. Many people don't like it. Not saying I'm one of them, but I hear it from time to time.
RiverOtter
12-09-2004, 08:17 AM
You should add a 4th option: Keep your vehicle on the road. Many people don't like it. Not saying I'm one of them, but I hear it from time to time.
I'll try :? but now sure how to do that.
Oldtimer
12-09-2004, 08:54 AM
Kurt, can you post a picture of our truck? The one with the covered seating area on the bed? I know I've seen a couple on this site before.
Our family has had "beach buggies" since the 1940's. That's what we still call the truck---beach buggy. In the early 50's my cousins had an old "woody wagon" with the side doors removed, probably no windows except for the windshield, and large under inflated tires . We would ride the dunes high and low (when that was legal, like walking your dog used to be).
Over the years we've tried many kinds of vehicles, some 4WD and some not. Needless to say, we've got some very funny and sad stories about getting stuck in the non-4WD vehicles. We don't drive the $30,000+ trucks, but we do insist on 4WD now and (knock on wood) have avoided being stuck for years. We have always modified our vehicle exclusively for beach runs and made it suitable as a people mover, along with transporting coolers, chairs, umbrellas, etc. Every version has improved modifications. We have places to hang chairs, spots for trash cans and coolers. Makes for an intersesting ride!
I'm leaving after work today to spend the weekend. Big family Christmas party. Can't wait!
http://www.graytonbeach.com/DSC_3410.jpg
RiverOtter
12-09-2004, 09:09 AM
http://www.graytonbeach.com/DSC_3410.jpg
I've seen that truck before! Love it!! :D 8)
Oldtimer
12-09-2004, 02:44 PM
Thanks for the photo of our buggy, but I think Kurt was focused on something other than our truck when he took the photo.
Good shot! :roll:
GraytonBound
12-09-2004, 03:43 PM
I'm leaving after work today to spend the weekend. Big family Christmas party. Can't wait!
Looks like you'll have pretty good weather, too. We've had flooding & threat of tornados in Nooga today :roll: When you get back be sure to tell us how great it was...complete with photos. Have fun! :D
RiverOtter
12-09-2004, 04:02 PM
Thanks for the photo of our buggy, but I think Kurt was focused on something other than our truck when he took the photo.
Good shot! :roll:
Sure am glad someone else noticed that :mrgreen:
Landlocked
10-26-2005, 12:55 PM
Resurrecting an old thread here RO. I think I found my new beach car :biggrin:
http://car-reviews.automobile.com/images/cars/ArtImages/20288/inline_02.jpg
Ford Bronco Concept (http://www.roadfly.com/magazine/galleries/detroit_auto_show_2004/Ford-Bronco-Concept-index24416_c_1_s_-165_c_1_s_.html)
any old CJ-7 or 8 w/ bikini top would do
Landlocked
10-26-2005, 02:16 PM
any old CJ-7 or 8 w/ bikini top would do
I agree, but that thing looks pretty neat.
OhioBeachBum
10-26-2005, 02:24 PM
Thanks for the photo of our buggy, but I think Kurt was focused on something other than our truck when he took the photo.
Good shot! :roll:
Sweet ride! (OK, Otter - there's a ball you can run with... ;-) )
RiverOtter
10-26-2005, 02:57 PM
Dam LL! Blast from the past :funn: . Graytonbound wants an 89/90 Toyota Land Cruiser. Love those things. Looks like they just float over the sand. :cool:
Smiling JOe
10-26-2005, 04:47 PM
Dam LL! Blast from the past :funn: . Graytonbound wants an 89/90 Toyota Land Cruiser. Love those things. Looks like they just float over the sand. :cool:
I know of a red one for sale. Not sure on the year, but probably close to a 1990. Also, Patterson has an old International Scout for sale.
Landlocked
10-26-2005, 04:50 PM
I know of a red one for sale. Not sure on the year, but probably close to a 1990. Also, Patterson has an old International Scout for sale.
Those old Scouts are cool. My boss has two late sixties models. I think late sixties. Does that sound right?
Smiling JOe
10-26-2005, 04:56 PM
Resurrecting an old thread here RO. I think I found my new beach car :biggrin:
http://car-reviews.automobile.com/images/cars/ArtImages/20288/inline_02.jpg
Ford Bronco Concept (http://www.roadfly.com/magazine/galleries/detroit_auto_show_2004/Ford-Bronco-Concept-index24416_c_1_s_-165_c_1_s_.html)
I like the old Bronco's, and this one too. I think it is cool that they put a desiel engine in it, but I don't know about the 128 hp. Sounds a little weak. When will these guys realize that we don't need leather interior? These kind of vehicles need all weather interior. Toyota also has a concept FJ-40 for 2006 which is similar in style. I like the looks of them both.
Actually I voted for a Landcruiser. I once had a baby blue 1972 FJ-40. Jeep cj-7,8 are much easier to find though. The new FJ-40 I believe, comes out this spring and looks way to good to be on the beach.
Smiling JOe
10-26-2005, 07:20 PM
Actually I voted for a Landcruiser. I once had a baby blue 1972 FJ-40. Jeep cj-7,8 are much easier to find though. The new FJ-40 I believe, comes out this spring and looks way to good to be on the beach.
FJ-40 (http://toyota.com/vehicles/future/fj_cruiser/index.html)
(245 HP - vrroom, vrroom)
RiverOtter
10-26-2005, 08:13 PM
FJ-40 (http://toyota.com/vehicles/future/fj_cruiser/index.html)
(245 HP - vrroom, vrroom)
Cool, I hadn't seen that before.
The other beach truck I have seen "floating" over the sand it the old Grand Wanoneer. I used to have two of these. The 4WD systems were awesome!! :cool:
Miss Kitty
10-26-2005, 10:45 PM
Cool, I hadn't seen that before.
The other beach truck I have seen "floating" over the sand it the old Grand Wanoneer. I used to have two of these. The 4WD systems were awesome!! :cool:
RO..stop this instant...I can't take it any more! WANONEER...WAGONEER?
Smiling JOe
10-26-2005, 10:58 PM
RO..stop this instant...I can't take it any more! WANONEER...WAGONEER?
I think he using the old manual keyboard. :floor:You have to peck those letters just right to make them hit.
RiverOtter
10-27-2005, 06:15 AM
RO..stop this instant...I can't take it any more! WANONEER...WAGONEER?
Sorry, I was thinking faster than my fingers would type :oops:
Miss Kitty
10-27-2005, 06:25 AM
Sorry, I was thinking faster than my fingers would type :oops:
No worries....you have the most honest typos!!! Just one question....did you have spell check when writing papers in HS/college? Ya' know, back in my day....no spell check except a dictionary....no calculators, just a slide rule...no answering machines, except your Mom...no cell phones...no video cameras...no computers!!!! Wow, that is amazing when you think about it!!!!
jdarg
10-27-2005, 06:25 AM
http://www.graytonbeach.com/DSC_3410.jpg
Oldtimer- your beach buggy is too great! We stayed a few houses down from y'all this past summer, and it was all I could do to not thumb a ride. Not that the walk was too long- it just looked like such great fun!
RiverOtter
10-27-2005, 06:31 AM
No worries....you have the most honest typos!!! Just one question....did you have spell check when writing papers in HS/college? Ya' know, back in my day....no spell check except a dictionary....no calculators, just a slide rule...no answering machines, except your Mom...no cell phones...no video cameras...no computers!!!! Wow, that is amazing when you think about it!!!!
I always had some chick type my papers :biggrin:
Miss Kitty
10-27-2005, 06:40 AM
I always had some chick type my papers :biggrin:
Smart Otter!!!
KISH7374
10-27-2005, 08:28 AM
OK Sueshore you are starting to let your age come out
Smiling JOe
10-27-2005, 08:51 AM
No worries....you have the most honest typos!!! Just one question....did you have spell check when writing papers in HS/college? Ya' know, back in my day....no spell check except a dictionary....no calculators, just a slide rule...no answering machines, except your Mom...no cell phones...no video cameras...no computers!!!! Wow, that is amazing when you think about it!!!!
What? No cell phones? You must be really old. By the way, what is a slide rule?:floor::floor::floor:
FJ-40 (http://toyota.com/vehicles/future/fj_cruiser/index.html)
(245 HP - vrroom, vrroom)Does somebody have an advance deposit at an unknown Toyota dealer????
jdarg
10-27-2005, 09:05 AM
No worries....you have the most honest typos!!! Just one question....did you have spell check when writing papers in HS/college? Ya' know, back in my day....no spell check except a dictionary....no calculators, just a slide rule...no answering machines, except your Mom...no cell phones...no video cameras...no computers!!!! Wow, that is amazing when you think about it!!!!
I must be old too. The only computer I saw was the huge mainframe at USC- we had to take a "computer" class. Fortran. I have no idea what we did other than draw flow charts and make punch cards that never worked.
I hate spell check. Wouldn't it be neat if everyone learned how to spell at school?
What a tangent. Beach ride morphs to education. Sorry.
Franny
10-27-2005, 09:10 AM
hey SJ do you know how much Patterson wants for either of his beach buggies????
Smiling JOe
10-27-2005, 09:49 AM
hey SJ do you know how much Patterson wants for either of his beach buggies????
Franny, Patterson owns only one of the two which I mentioned. PM her and you can find out for sure. I think she said the yellow colored Scout was priced around $1500. It was running when she parked it, but they have not ran it for a year or so. Patterson can correct me if I am wrong. I think this one has a rag top, but not sure if she has the hard top too. I meant to take a photo of it, but I have not been down that way lately. I like the old Scouts, and would be highly interested if I needed another vehicle.:wub:
The red Land Cruiser is owned by another guy who lives not too far away from you. Go down Summer Breeze (east) and his house is about the 3rd house on the left. His first name is Blake (I think). I am uncertain of the asking price, or whether he still has it for sale. I have also seen him park in on 30-A, in the front yard of the big brick home on Big Redfish Lake.
Capricious
10-27-2005, 06:21 PM
C&C
(Cheap and Cool)
aquaticbiology
10-28-2005, 07:48 AM
get those oil leaking polluting sand crushing horrible things off my beach
it was better when there were glass bottles because they would be hiding just under the sand - they wouldn't hurt people since people are light, but when some git plowed over them in his suvburban - pop-wheeeeeeee!
cue manic laughter
Franny
10-28-2005, 10:21 AM
Thanks SJ for the info. I will check it out!
aquaticbiology
10-28-2005, 12:13 PM
wow! 36% say 'get that truck off my beach!" so far
RiverOtter
10-28-2005, 12:36 PM
get those oil leaking polluting sand crushing horrible things off my beach
it was better when there were glass bottles because they would be hiding just under the sand - they wouldn't hurt people since people are light, but when some git plowed over them in his suvburban - pop-wheeeeeeee!
cue manic laughter
Mine doesn't leak :cool:
aquaticbiology
10-28-2005, 12:50 PM
mine dosen't leak either, but I still don't drive it onto the beach
kathydwells
10-28-2005, 12:51 PM
:popcorn:
RiverOtter
10-28-2005, 12:52 PM
:popcorn:
I'm waiting on Wildernester to come on and fire things up :lol:
Landlocked
10-28-2005, 12:55 PM
Mine doesn't leak :cool:
Mine leaks like a sive (sp?)
RiverOtter
10-28-2005, 12:57 PM
Mine leaks like a sive (sp?)
I used to have a 78 Grand Wagoneer that we dubbed The Valdeez (Sp?)
Edit: It never went to the beach. Settle down people :lol:
Landlocked
10-28-2005, 12:58 PM
I used to have a 78 Grand Wagoneer that we dubbed The Valdeez (Sp?)
:lolabove:
The rear end leaks on mine.
RiverOtter
10-28-2005, 01:00 PM
:lolabove:
The rear end leaks on mine.
The front end, the rear end, the engine, the tranny, they brakes, the friggin steering.... The whole dam think leaked :lol:
Landlocked
10-28-2005, 01:02 PM
The front end, the rear end, the engine, the tranny, they brakes, the friggin steering.... The whole dam think leaked :lol:
That's great on the driveway isn't it? I had to buy a pressure washer
Miss Kitty
10-28-2005, 01:26 PM
:popcorn:
Such restraint shown by KD!
KISH7374
10-28-2005, 02:18 PM
Sounds like a personal problem to me.
kathydwells
10-28-2005, 02:37 PM
Such restraint shown by KD!
It is not easy, but I think "tis better to say nothing at all if you can't say anything nice". ;-)
Miss Kitty
10-28-2005, 04:14 PM
It is not easy, but I think "tis better to say nothing at all if you can't say anything nice". ;-)
Capital B Capital S!!!!!! hee hee hee
Wildernester
10-28-2005, 04:53 PM
I'm waiting on Wildernester to come on and fire things up :lol:
I am awaiting the Oracle's pronouncement on the subject.
RiverOtter
10-28-2005, 05:45 PM
I am awaiting the Oracle's pronouncement on the subject.
I think he's out of town this weekend :cool:
aquaticbiology
10-30-2005, 06:40 AM
aw, man! not fair!
the poll now at 49% to those who say:
"Anything with 4WD cause I'm not carring my stuff through all that sand! "
first of all - you don't need all that STUFF (go STUFF your STUFF!)
secondly - 'all that sand' is what you should be there for in the first place
thirdly - I guess if you'd put up a seawall you'd have no problem with vehicles on the beach
I made oodles of money 20 years ago pulling idiots out in the sand lot next to Destin bridge (before it was closed off to all but foot traffic), but that wasn't the actual BEACH for crying out loud! We never went on the 'beach' beach!
Walton County obviously just dosen't care about their beaches if they still let vehicles on them, and where do you get the @#$%^ to complain about coastal drilling for oil when you drive a potential gusher onto the beach!
So I, and probably others, will just be going somewhere else where they don't allow vehicles.
I hope you all get stuck axle-deep.
Oldtimer
10-30-2005, 10:07 PM
Oldtimer- your beach buggy is too great! We stayed a few houses down from y'all this past summer, and it was all I could do to not thumb a ride. Not that the walk was too long- it just looked like such great fun!
Just put your thumb out next summer. We are always picking up folks. We love our buggy, but it ain't no fancy transport!!!! :lolabove:
Oldtimer
10-30-2005, 10:11 PM
Franny, Patterson owns only one of the two which I mentioned. PM her and you can find out for sure. I think she said the yellow colored Scout was priced around $1500. It was running when she parked it, but they have not ran it for a year or so. Patterson can correct me if I am wrong. I think this one has a rag top, but not sure if she has the hard top too. I meant to take a photo of it, but I have not been down that way lately. I like the old Scouts, and would be highly interested if I needed another vehicle.:wub:
The red Land Cruiser is owned by another guy who lives not too far away from you. Go down Summer Breeze (east) and his house is about the 3rd house on the left. His first name is Blake (I think). I am uncertain of the asking price, or whether he still has it for sale. I have also seen him park in on 30-A, in the front yard of the big brick home on Big Redfish Lake.
Just send Patterson a PM and I'm sure she'll reply when she's back in Walton County early next week. The Scout is a good beach vehicle and she wants to sell it. (my husband and I have an investment, very small, in the Scout) It is a work horse and perfect for Grayton! PM her now......
jdarg
10-31-2005, 05:57 AM
Just put your thumb out next summer. We are always picking up folks. We love our buggy, but it ain't no fancy transport!!!! :lolabove:
It is Grayton's closest thing to mass transit!
Miss Kitty
10-31-2005, 06:44 AM
It is Grayton's closest thing to mass transit!
LOVE IT!!! Carpooling has hit SoWal!
RiverOtter
10-31-2005, 04:13 PM
We love our buggy, but it ain't no fancy transport!!!! :lolabove:
Don't listen to her. That buggy is totally custom and totally cool :cool:
Wildernester
10-31-2005, 05:12 PM
aw, man! not fair!
the poll now at 49% to those who say:
"Anything with 4WD cause I'm not carring my stuff through all that sand! "
first of all - you don't need all that STUFF (go STUFF your STUFF!)
secondly - 'all that sand' is what you should be there for in the first place
thirdly - I guess if you'd put up a seawall you'd have no problem with vehicles on the beach
I made oodles of money 20 years ago pulling idiots out in the sand lot next to Destin bridge (before it was closed off to all but foot traffic), but that wasn't the actual BEACH for crying out loud! We never went on the 'beach' beach!
Walton County obviously just dosen't care about their beaches if they still let vehicles on them, and where do you get the @#$%^ to complain about coastal drilling for oil when you drive a potential gusher onto the beach!
So I, and probably others, will just be going somewhere else where they don't allow vehicles.
I hope you all get stuck axle-deep.
As some on this board know, I share your sentiments and probably feel even more strongly about anyone, other than emergency personnel, driving on Grayton Beach. What is it about Grayton Beach that Walton County does not like? From Memorial Day through Labor Day, it seems as if every property owner in Walton County feels an obligation to drive on "our beach."
If the county is going to permit beach driving, why concentrate it all in one small strip at Grayton Beach? Let the people from Watercolor, Seaside, Watersound, Rosemary (Paxton, DFS, Freeport, etc.) drive on those beaches. Of course, the logical solution is to prohibit all casual driving on the beaches in Walton County. (Have you noticed how the driving area at Grayton has expanded into the State Park?)
Inserting that smilie with the head beating against the wall might be appropriate here.
RiverOtter
11-01-2005, 06:09 AM
As some on this board know, I share your sentiments and probably feel even more strongly about anyone, other than emergency personnel, driving on Grayton Beach. What is it about Grayton Beach that Walton County does not like? From Memorial Day through Labor Day, it seems as if every property owner in Walton County feels an obligation to drive on "our beach."
If the county is going to permit beach driving, why concentrate it all in one small strip at Grayton Beach? Let the people from Watercolor, Seaside, Watersound, Rosemary (Paxton, DFS, Freeport, etc.) drive on those beaches. Of course, the logical solution is to prohibit all casual driving on the beaches in Walton County. (Have you noticed how the driving area at Grayton has expanded into the State Park?)
Inserting that smilie with the head beating against the wall might be appropriate here :bang: .
While I don't agree with you thought I'd help ya out :biggrin:
Miss Kitty
11-01-2005, 06:19 AM
Best truck for funnin' on the beach....TONKA!
aquaticbiology
11-01-2005, 08:39 AM
amen, sue! :clap_1:
a tonka truck will nary a turtle nest crush
can't wait for one of those tresspassing beach vehicles to get caught inside the state park boundary - park ranger gets a new beach truck! everyone knows they're just letting the vehicles come ever closer before they see one they like and pounce!
where's that number for greenpeace....
Smiling JOe
11-01-2005, 08:43 AM
amen, sue! :clap_1:
a tonka truck will nary a turtle nest crush
can't wait for one of those tresspassing beach vehicles to get caught inside the state park boundary - park ranger gets a new beach truck! everyone knows they're just letting the vehicles come ever closer before they see one they like and pounce!
where's that number for greenpeace....
About two weeks ago, the State Park finally replaced the signs which were taken out by a storm, stating that vehicles are not to pass that point, and tresspassing has stopped.
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