\n It’s called swamp buggy racing, a fuel-powered homage to the days when Seventy years later, southwest Florida hunters continue to explore "The motors in some of these buggies cost as much as a Mercedes-Benz," said from the Boston Globe<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here’s something else the Dowbrigade has always had a hankering to try… It’s called swamp buggy racing, a fuel-powered homage to the days when hunters prepared for the start of the fall season by showing off their latest buggies, motorized … Continue reading ![](\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/Swamuggy.jpg\")
Here’s
\n something else the Dowbrigade has always had a hankering to try…<\/em><\/p>\n
\n hunters prepared for the start of the fall season by showing off their
\n latest buggies, motorized contraptions with balloon tires and elevated
\n suspensions built to maneuver into the most remote recesses of the
\n Everglades.<\/p>\n
\n what remains of the once-endless River of Grass with swamp buggies.
\n Since 1949,
\n those pioneers and their descendants — along with a few northern interlopers
\n — have carried on the tradition with state-of-the-art racing buggies that
\n can cost more than $60,000.![](\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/swampugg.jpg\")
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\n Darryl Massey, 42, a former racer who plots his comeback in a machine shop
\n behind his home each night after work. Racers in seven classes, from four-cylinder
\n jeeps to modified high-performance monsters with 1,000-horsepower engines
\n and names such as "High-Tech Redneck," encircle a bog known as
\n the Mile of Mud, leaving behind 30-foot wakes of white foam as thick as
\n smoke. Top performers can exceed 90 miles per hour.<\/p>\n