re: How many of you have a 4x4 and have actually used it?

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Anyone who squats a truck deserves to have it buried in the sand. I have slightly oversized tires and a special compressor/hose setup where I can deflate/inflate all 4 tires simultaneously. If the sand is really loose I'll air down to 10 PSI.

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Back in the 70s and 80s I was lucky to fish the outer banks a lot when I was a kid and folks would drive the family sedan on the beach for weeks on end and have very little problems because they would let the air out of the tires to about 10 PSI and pump them back up with a hand pump when they were back on the pavement. Low ground clearance heavy assed rear wheel drive buicks and the like all over the place fishing. My dad had a "fishing" car, a mid 60s Falcon station wagon with a straight 6 and three on the tree. Damned thing did not have a floor in the back, just a series of holes rusted through the floor pan. He would drive that thing down dirt roads and on the beach in places that would make a rock crawler cower in fear. Not only was it a car in name only he bought used recaps LOL...not newly recapped tires but recaps other people had taken off 'cause they were worn out. Slick arse tires. about 5 inches of ground clearance under the differential and not much more under the muffler and that thing would just crawl through ruts, mud, over rocks and trees....it was as useful as a 4 wd truck...and it was a common practice, most people who did that sort of thing did it in a similar vehicle. I am not implying we did not get stuck and high centered regulalry, we certainly did, but it was just the price you paid to get to that fishing hole....