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 ...

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 ...

“Take these spectral bleachers and fill the air over them with Coppertone and kettle-corn perfume and Skynard and rebel flags snapping,” writes the Southern author Padgett Powell in the introduction ...

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 ...

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’ ...

Swamp buggy racing lost two legends, two historic drivers who have been linked to the local sport for more than half of its 72-year existence. Terry Langford and Ray Thornton were related by marriage ...

It started Saturday morning a few outside of town on Bermont Road — a procession of monster trucks, swamp buggies and high-powered racing machines affixed to trailers, all of them headed for the mud.

NAPLES, Florida — Before this town was a vacation spot, there were only swamps, and the men who played in them. Back in the day, which around here means the 1930s, Collier County was known for farmin' ...