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 ...

At Saturday’s swamp buggy races, a champion will not be crowned at Florida Sports Park in East Naples. And that’s great with the drivers. In years past the Spring Classic in March has been the ...

Preparing for this weekend's swamp buggy races, a unique and longstanding Naples tradition, Tyler Johns says he doesn't feel much different than he has going into every other race the past 16 years.

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 ...

On the other side of the park at the 1999 Spring Classic Swamp Buggy Races, rowdy fans leap to their feet, hands in the air, as 20-foot rooster tails of water rip past. Theyre having some kind of ...

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 ...

Much of his adult life has been spent inside a swamp buggy. He and his parents are staples of the "Mile-o-Mud" racetrack at Florida Sports Park in East Naples. Johns finished second in the buggy ...

NAPLES, Fla. — A professional swamp buggy racer from Naples isn’t ruling out a return to the sport even after losing a significant portion of his left arm in a horrific accident earlier this ...

A swamp buggy's ability to manoeuvre through flooded waters makes it useful in emergency response efforts. The town of Fort Myers Beach has already declared a state of emergency due to the adverse ...

Hunters, swamp buggy enthusiasts, politicians, Gladesmen and others are fighting to keep the federal government from giving a wilderness designation to the Big Cypress National Preserve outside of ...