Steve Swaja is an American dragster designer in the 1960s.Taylor, Thom. "Beauty Beyond the Twilight Zone", in Hot Rod, April 2017, pp.30-43.
Swaja was responsible for both Tony Nancy wedge cars of 1963, the Yellow Fang slingshot in 1963,Taylor, Thom. "George Schreiber's Yellow Fang", in "Beauty Beyond the Twilight Zone", p.36. and "TV Tommy" Ivo's Videoliner in 1965.Taylor, Thom. "T.V. Tommy Ivo Videoliner/Bushwacker", in "Beauty Beyond the Twilight Zone", p.31.
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.Burgess, Phil, National Dragster editor. "From the mailbag", written 5 March 2008, at NHRA.com (retrieved 22 September 2018)
Among Swaja's other projects were cars for Rocky Childs, Ewell-Stecker-Kamboor, Fred Fischback, Scrima-Milodon, Dusty Rhodes, and Eagle Electric; he also did Hot Rod's XR-6 roadster.
Swaja became good friends with Nancy.
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Sources Taylor, Thom. "Beauty Beyond the Twilight Zone" in Hot Rod, April 2017, pp. 30–43.