Steve Swaja is an American
dragster designer in the 1960s.
Swaja was responsible for both
Tony Nancy wedge cars of 1963, the
''Yellow Fang'' slingshot
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in 1963, and
"TV Tommy" Ivo's
''Videoliner'' in 1965.
He designed
Tony Nancy's first dragster, "The Silver Car", in 1963; it was built at Tommy Ivo & d Rod Pepmuller's shop, with the aluminum bending done by
Bob Sorrell; the car won "Best Engineered" at its debut, the
1963 Winternationals.
Among Swaja's other projects were cars for
Rocky Childs, Ewell-Stecker-Kamboor,
Fred Fischback, Scrima-Milodon,
Dusty Rhodes
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, and
Eagle Electric; he also did
''Hot Rod'''s
XR-6 roadster.
Swaja became good friends with Nancy.
[Burgess, Phil, ''National Dragster'' editor. "From the mailbag", written 5 March 2008, a]
NHRA.com
(retrieved 22 September 2018)
Notes
Sources
*Taylor, Thom. "Beauty Beyond the Twilight Zone" in ''Hot Rod'', April 2017, pp. 30–43.
American automobile designers
Drag racing
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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