For father and son, Roger and Scotty McCandless, swamp buggy racing in Naples, Florida, is a family tradition. Local ...

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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 ...

NAPLES, Fla. – The second race of the swamp buggy season is ready to make some noise at the Florida Sports Park for the Budweiser Winter Classic, just like they’ve been doing three times a year for ...

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 ...

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 their ...

“Take these spectral bleachers and fill the air over them with Coppertone and kettle-corn perfume and Skynard and rebel flags snapping,” writes the Southern author Padgett Powell in the introduction ...

NAPLES, Florida — Before this town was a vacation spot, there were only swamps, and the men who played in them. Back in the day, which around here means the 1930s, Collier County was known for farmin' ...

After spending his whole life in swamp buggy racing, Brian Langford said the sport just got stale. Terry Langford, his father, started racing in the 1970s, and Brian was born in 1973. The younger ...

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’ ...