This December, the Swamp Buggy Fall Classic will have a different name to it, and more significance for a closely-knit community. The Terry Langford Memorial Fall Classic is set for this weekend at ...

For the first time in nearly a decade, the swamp buggy races will take place under the lights. The Bud Cup will be determined Saturday night with the gates opening at 2:30 p.m., however, due to ...

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 ...

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 ...

"It's loud, fast, and mixes easily with water," is how the author described this particular swamp buggy back in the June 1985 issue ofFour Wheeler, and we couldn't agree more. For the uninitiated, ...

Bonnie Walsh had a simple plan to win the top prize Sunday at the Budweiser Winter Classic swamp buggy races. Start fast and finish faster. Driving her buggy Fatal Attraction, Walsh needed every last ...

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’ ...

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 ...