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 ...

If you have ever picked up a copy of any biker magazine, chances are you’ve either heard the name or seen the work of this talented individual. The owner of this one-of-a-kind custom swamp buggy is ...

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 ...

You've heard of dune buggies for blasting dunes and rock buggies for wheeling on rocks, but what is purpose-built for the swamps of Naples, Florida? Nope, not airboats (good guess though)—it's swamp ...

Much of the state of Florida outside of the sandy beaches and tropical Keys is, in fact, a humid swamp. A lot of this swamp sits inside Everglades National Park, and it’s very difficult to do just ...