Mentally, he's strong. He's ready." Randy Johns bought Tyler his first swamp buggy in 2001. The elder Johns used to drive his own buggy, Top Gun, before handing it over to Tyler. Top Gun has been ...

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 ...

In the early years, many Southwest Floridians used rafts and small boats to get around. Then a man named Ed Frank from Naples is credited with inventing the first swamp buggy. The vehicle proved ...

Swamp buggy racing is unlike any other type of off ... See All 14 Photos Silicone, and other types of sealants, is used liberally to keep water out of components. This is the carb on Wayne Miller ...

The Swamp Buggy Races began in 1949 ... yes, there are regularly used bogs — before moving to a purpose-built track called the Mile O’ Mud, before moving to the current, even more purpose ...

So when he told us about the new swamp buggy he was having built at Big Head ... well-built hunting rig that most of our readers are used to by now, but man, were we wrong. Big Ed wanted to ...

A U.S. magistrate has properly upheld tough rules protecting South Florida’s Big Cypress National Preserve from further environmental damage by swamp buggies ... or ORVs, used by self-described ...

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 ...