How the heck would the guy who is always on the outside of the turns ever win? By the end of the first turn you would have lost everything being equal.
They should throw a few alligators in there.....just to mix things up a bit! I remember they used to show these in the early days of ESPN. Too much fun, thanks for uploading this!
You say that, until one of the buggies flip over, and all us fans jump the fence to try and save the person. They can't always make it to the emergency air tank. Most of the people racing are local, and our friends. Last thing we want is someone to die. It's dangerous, and all these buggies are built in the backyards of all the locals.
I had a computer game of swamp buggy racing. It might have been good. It's been 23 years so not sure. But i remember the cool box art. So many cool old games I've found most, playing them is another story. But at least i found most. Watching this is cool. Videos like this probably didn't exist on the internet back then in 2001 when i played that crazzy game.
It was a Cable/Satellite station, called originally The Nashville Network, which years later became The National Network, and lastly just TNN, when they gave up and started airing over-compressed digital files of Starsky and Hutch. Opryland and Christianity originally. I guess Country wasn't quite cool enough. Kyle Petty played his guitar for the nation one night and future star Myley Cyrus made her debut as a toddler on the Crook and Chase talk show, if I'm not mistaken. At her fathers urging, she walked out encouraging the crowd to clap. Showbiz from day one, ain't she sumpin'? And now, in closing, fun fact, back to the swamp buggies and Steve Evans. Jumping in the 'sippy hole with the Trophy Queen in your arms was first prize. 'twas muddy, to say the least. Florida! (Not that I'm bragging, but I once watched Larry Nuber smoke a cigarette during a rain delay at a Cayuge Speedway ASA show once. I would have liked to have met Steve Evans but I think, at the time, he was trying to quit...)
@@badad0166 As a kid I once saw a trophy fire where the winner was walking over to kiss the trophy girl and stopped midway and quickly grabbed and kissed his male opponent!
I love the clutch stabs in the Jeep race. Great way to "boost power" without letting off the gas and having RPMs dip. The clutch might disagree, but then again, it's just the clutch.
As a kid, I used to watch this after Saturday morning cartoons in the late 80s, early 90s. I forgot these machines existed. I remember them running 4-6 at a time
Was there in the same era. Wondered why there were so many open seats at the end of the finish straight-until the first race. Hung in there. The old “Shagnasty” and “No Reverse” put on quite a show.
I live in collier county. This is a few miles from me. You actually used to be able to ride all around near it. It's almost closed down a couple times, because homes are all around the buggy grounds(Florida Sports Park). It's super loud, and v6 motors are over 1000hp.
I wanna know the conversation that took place for this to be suggested.....you know, 10 beers down the line...." so I've got this v8 laying around...what say we shove it in that metal tube you've got, nick those metal saws from the old saw-mill and race it down the bayou?" 🤣🤣🤣
I know this sport has been around at least 35 yrs or more. Even back before Monster Trucks come about. That was back in the early 80's.-70's so yea. It's been around for a minute or too. At NAPLES , FLORIDA..
The old Naples raceway back when ESPN was good they used to show this racing all timethe unlimited class was cool but it was funny to see the Jeeps going to the sippy hole and totally disappear for a second to re-emerge and complete another lap I guess the good old days are truly long gone.
Watching this again makes me miss my friends that used to do this in Naples fl... #turnerloose #ladybug. This is a very fun and expensive thing to do next to drag racing for sure
This is what I love most about racing: a woman participates, a woman WINS, and nobody makes a big deal about her being female. Its just normal. They don't ask for their own "league" they gladly compete against the males. Chess can't even take that lead.
Nobody cares, I could care less what the next person has between they legs, you are either a good person or a piece of shit sex is irrelavant, much like skin color irrelavant
When I see the first race (the swamp buggy?) I was thinking, dang that's a slow race... Then I saw the jeep race... Heck the swamp buggy is a rocket! 🤣
Great video, but us guys who don't know anyone, would love to hear who's who and what's going on from heat to heat etc. Again thank you for the great in focus shots 👌
3:16 this is hilarious lol. Those little UTVs with their bicycle tires trying to stay above water. 3 minute lap, and #79 might have actually gotten first place if he'd just stop trying to drive up #241 's ass.
Thank you for this it reminds me of the years that we moved to North Carolina way back in the early 80/s. This really takes me back to the days when I was the most happy.
It always amazes me what people will turn into a competition. Like doing this would not interest me in the slightest but to each their own I always say.
I like how the wheels are also a rudder. 😂 I truly have never seen anything like this then I live in Texas I thought I've seen it all. Turns out the Bible is right there truly is nothing new under the Sun.
Lmfao I’ve never seen this before. But this is freakin cool as all hell and just goes to show that anything with a motor, racing is as cool as it gets 🤘
Down in Naples Florida this is every weekend.. Check it out on line. They have some really kool trucks boats lol what ever they are.. Oh yeah SWAMP BUGGYS! lol
@@L3GHO5T yeah i was being a smart ass. I got a lot of family down Florida way my dads good friend had a swamp buggy team for years.. I think he's retired now.. Got old. Lol
Imagine me and you neck and neck racing, almost at the finish line looks like you might win until I spanked my ostrich into overdrive taking longer steps lol we will race anything
sitting on my favorite throne in the house, this glorious footage shows up in my feed , and just like that, I’ve found my people. 😍 I’ve always said I’d race a log if someone lined up next to me on one. Then I saw this 😲
@buffalo wt and by research and development, building these things. I love the F1 talk and I'm not saying that as an insult either. It's just weird seeing it here.
👍Brought back memories. The Jeeps give a great perspective of the track conditions. But in the unlimited you can see there is a definite advantage to getting the holeshot after that there's never enough Rain-X to keep your visor free of water. Never swamp raced. But I did do many years on the mud bog circuit in the early and mid 80s, where it was more mud than water. The key to winning my class almost every time was using a unique vehicle. With a heavily modified 22R in a stripped 1976 Toyota Hilux two wheel drive lifted 14 in with a front straight axle and 36 inch paddles. And a empty weight of just 1300 lbs. 🤠🐂🏞️🛩️
@@corystevenponzo7007 max 22r or 20r power is about 650 fully done.. 22r are one of about 4 bullet proof motors ever made. You'll break every part on the motor before the motor itself. And question.... 2wd with a solid front axle? Lol
I love recommended... but I am now left with so many questions. Are there not 2 races like drifting for the long buggies? Who is the girl with the tiara? The swamp queen? Only Tractor tires allowed? Can you fish the course?
There's usually a catch and release competition after the races, before the wet t-shirt and bonfire. Beer tent hours 6 AM - 6 AM. Girl with tiara local escort. Swim at your own risk, no lifeguard on duty. Children 6 and under free.
How Swamp buggies came to ... One day Cleatis's wife said . Hunny you either have to get rid of or start using that old broken down tractor, leaky boat , and Dragster that you haven't raced in ten years.... Two weeks later Cleatis could be seen racing up and down in the cannels of Naples Florida..... God Bless Cleatis .... :)
No matter what natural obstacle mother nature creates, hillbillies create something that will cross it balls to the wall. I absolutely love that the jeep drivers strap their ladies in the shotgun chair. This has central Florida written all over it!
