Naples, Fla., is home to the "swamp buggy" races, an Everglades tradition that dates back to 1949. Although airboats and cars have long since eliminated the need for swamp buggies, racing the buggies ...

"It's loud, fast, and mixes easily with water," is how the author described this particular swamp buggy back in the June 1985 issue ofFour Wheeler, and we couldn't agree more. For the uninitiated, ...

Malcolm Lightner, “Full Throttle” (2013) (all images from ‘Mile o’ Mud: The Culture of Swamp Buggy Racing,’ courtesy PowerHouse Books; all caption information by Malcolm Lightner) The distinctly ...

Generations of families come out to enjoy the tradition, which started in the 1940s The culture of swamp buggy racing is as unique and distinctive as its name. Created in Naples, Florida, the ...

Like many quirky, homegrown traditions, swamp buggy racing started out small. In the early 1940s, about a dozen hunters in Naples, Florida, who used the strange, jeeplike vehicles to navigate the ...

You can see the topmost leaf of an orange tree from the passenger seat of a 7-foottall dune buggy. The asphalt that is Dundee Road rushes beneath the bright blue and silver buggy at almost 45 mph, ...