I can't say I'm all that surprised about my final opinion on Swamp Buggy Racing. It's like university cafeteria food ¿ at the moment I saw it, and especially when I first started eating it, I knew it ...
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 ...
Dan Greenling was the driver to beat in the 2018-19 swamp buggy racing season, and nobody could. Greenling’s pro-modified buggy Roll On lost just once last season – but only because of a mechanical ...
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 been a long 10 months for swamp buggy racing legend Eddie Chesser. Fresh off his 21st Big Feature win in March, Chesser was itching to defend his title in November, which was supposed to be the ...
Swamp buggy racing just might be the most Florida thing to come out of Florida. Three times each year in Naples, goggled drivers whiz down a flooded dirt track—officially christened the "Mile O’ ...
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 ...
Racing swamp buggies is deeply rooted in the history of Naples and the surrounding area, including the Everglades. But what are swamp buggies and how did the tradition begin? As one might imagine, ...
If you wheel your 4x4 in water and you want to learn the finer points of waterproofng, take a gander at the swamp buggies that race at the Florida Sports Park in Naples, Florida. The builders of these ...
NAPLES, Fla. – The second race of the swamp buggy season is ready to make some noise at the Florida Sports Park for the Budweiser Winter Classic, just like they’ve been doing three times a year for ...
Uncrowned is a new destination for all things MMA, boxing, wrestling, and more, featuring Ariel Helwani. This December, the Swamp Buggy Fall Classic will have a different name to it, and more ...