Duck country such as this is easily reached by swamp bugg) 



Swamp Buggies 



story and photographs by Robert P. Holland 



DOWN in the palmetto swamps of southern Florida, in one of 

 the country's sweetest patches of duck country, necessity 

 has mothered another invention. 



The necessity is for hunters to get over gummy land often 

 covered inches deep with water and feet deep with grass that 

 conceals differential-cracking tree stumps. The invention is the 

 swamp buggy. 



Fit four airplane tires and a six-speed transmission onto a 

 Model A and you have a swamp buggy. It is getting to be quite a 

 common sight in places where the average asphalt-loving car 

 can't go. Not only duck hunters, but quail hunters and surf- 

 casters are discovering them. 



Nothing much will faze a swamp buggy. It can leave the con- 

 crete, go across open country, traverse the logging roads and 

 spin across soft beach sand, all with equal nonchalance. It takes 

 joyfully to any terrain that would make a city-bred car balk and 

 head back to the garage. 



Judge D. C. Jones of Naples, Florida, owns one of these web- 

 footed hot rods. The front wheel tires are 42 X 15.00, the rear 

 45 X 18.00. There are four forward speeds, two reverse. The 

 Model A body has been converted into a light truck to carry dogs, 

 or bench seats can be let down to accommodate half a dozen 

 hunters. Gun boxes have been installed above the rear fenders. 



The beauty of Judge Jones' buggy is in the clearance as much 

 as the support given by the big tires. The outfit will clear a 

 1 6-inch stump between the wheels and the differential, and there 

 is a i4-inch clearance under the differential itself. For extra- 

 tough going Judge Jones carries a set of chains for the rear 

 wheels, and brother, do those make the mud fly! 



72 Muck and swampland won't faze this converted Model A 



