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 ...

Yahoo Racing is powered by Motorsport Network, providing expert reporting, analysis, and insider access across the world’s top racing series. Racing swamp buggies is deeply rooted in the history of ...

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’ ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When Eddie Chesser goes for his 11th Budweiser Cup in the Swamp Buggy Winter Series on Sunday at Florida Sports Park in Naples, he'll have his father Lonnie's ashes with him. "He'll be right with me," ...

Milton Morris was born in West Point, Mississippi, in 1903. In a life that spanned 85 years, perhaps his greatest triumph came in 1955, when he was 52 years old. For years afterward, he tried and ...