thousands came out to watch competitors race buggies through water and mud, and they may have gotten splashed a bit. Take a look at photos from the Swamp Buggy Races Budweiser Cup Finals here.

If you didn’t have a dune buggy or a van with outrageously flared arches and an eye-hurting paint job you were nothing in those days — or at least that’s what those of us who were too young ...