Swamp buggies are completely custom made. While they're designed to accomplish the same basic goal, each is one-of-a-kind. Most have been built by their owners, based on the theory that they know ...

At this weekend’s rescheduled Swamp Buggy Races Fall Classic, those drivers will be racing for no money. Not that swamp buggies are a lucrative hobby – even the winner usually spends more than ...

In the first two events of 2019-20, driver Dan Greenling had been so dominant in his pro-modified buggy Roll On that he won the season championship despite not racing in the spring.

The 5000-pound metal beast pitches me forward as it lurches to a stop. Eight feet below, swamp water sloshes in front of our 4-foot-high tractor tires, rousing an alligator that wriggles away for ...

Swamp buggy fans had to wait a little longer to see races as the Winter Classic was canceled the weekend of Jan. 29-30 so there will only be two race weekends instead of the usual three.

The owner of this one-of-a-kind custom swamp buggy is best known for this talent as an artist and world-class airbrusher. Chris “Bones” Tolson, the 37-year-old South Floridian, grew up around ...

Swamp buggy racing is in Malcolm Lightner’s blood. His great-uncle, R.L. Walker, who drove a buggy called Flying Saucer, was a racing champion in the 1950s and, to this day, his not-too-distant ...

The Swamp Buggy Races began in 1949, a formal competition between hunters who, until then, could only brag about how much faster their much-modified Everglades machines were than the next guy’s.

A breakdown on the clubhouse turn at Aqueduct yesterday delayed the start of the second race for 12 minutes. Luckily, it wasn’t a horse but a harrow tractor that suffered the injury, diagnose… ...

Then a man named Ed Frank from Naples is credited with inventing the first swamp buggy. The vehicle proved valuable in the Everglades in the 1930s and ‘40s.

Rabinette, a 41-year-old Sarasota bookkeeper, has been going to swamp-buggy races since she was a little girl. Her father, Ed Gonyaw, is a welder and a race fan.