This buggy is the prerunner of the swamp-buggy world. See All 5 Photos The front suspension uses coilover shocks and the steering is fully hydraulic. Notice how the suspension is longer on the ...

I've met up with Van Schaick to experience the landscape he loves best—the wetlands of southern Florida—aboard the machine he's most passionate about: the swamp buggy. Most Americans tend to ...

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 ...

When the current economic downturn hit the swamp buggy races, the drivers banded together to ensure one of the oldest traditions in Naples stays alive. At this weekend’s rescheduled Swamp Buggy ...

Forever, maybe. Because the Swamp Buggy Races in Naples, Florida — it might sound familiar thanks to “American Sports Cavalcade,” which aired the event on TNN from 1983 to 1995 — have ...

Following close competition last year and a long offseason, there’s excitement surrounding the Swamp Buggy Races as the Naples original sport enters its eighth decade. The swamp buggies enter ...

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 ...

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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. Originally named “Tumble Bug ...

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 ...

Pulling out of the pits, just moments before a swamp-buggy scramble, Vicki Rabinette looks ready to jump out of her seat. She squints into the sun. She fidgets in her five-point harness.