I built Wild Honey myself, after completing my T-roadster, and Björn came up with the engine.  This partnership worked fine but we did not have much money at that time and Wild Honey was very low budget.  The frame was built from exhaust tubing, bought in 6 metre straights, which I carried home on my shoulder walking about five miles to my garage.  The heim joints in the front suspension were expensive so I came up with this construction where the lower radius rod was the leaf spring to minimize the expensive joints, etc.  I borrowed a mould for the body and made it up in fiberglass, turned the front hubs for my own wheels, etc.

Both Lars and I liked to drive, and Björn too, and therefore we shared the driving taking turns at the wheel.

I had been a student at the University of Stockholm, also taking on occasional jobs and when I got a job which looked more promising I had to give up going to Santa Pod in 1971 and my brother stepped in to replace me.

At that time we had no sponsors and the everlasting costs of racing together with my freelancing as a motor journalist made further racing a difficult task.  The 327 engine was taken out of Wild Honey and Björn sold it to a hot rod building friend. Wild Honey was then sold without engine to Germany where it later got a six cylinder BMW engine and was raced sometime.  Since then I do not know anything about it.  None of us around Wild Honey continued with drag racing but we all carry on with our hobby with hot rods.

On a personal note; I started Wheels Magazine in 1977.  Before that I had been the editor of Colorod Magazine for some years.  I sold Wheels to a big publishing Company in 2004 and now I can just keep on doing what I like the best the whole day.  And I do not have to worry too much about the cost of a heim joint.

If there is something I am very proud of today it is my work with the Swedish Road Agency to be able to get hot rods licensed and allowed to be driven in the streets. After about five years of work and meetings with several different ministers in the Swedish government, we finally made this possible.  We had to form an inspection team, called SFRO, which will inspect and test ride the home-built cars and bikes before they appear at the governmental testing station.  My brother now works for the SFRO.

What else have I done?  Well I have gone 200 mph at Bonneville in a ‘27 roadster and together with Mikael Jonsson and Bjorn Johansson I have designed and developed the Wiking motorcycle (inspired by the Indian motorcycle of the 1940’s. See www.wikingmotorcycles.com).  We have invested more than we will ever get back moneywise but the satisfaction and enjoyment has been immense.  I rode the Wiking to the Isle of Man in 2007.  3,200 km without a problem.

I am 63 years old now and would now like to succeed with writing mystery novels. But that is a very different story.

Thanks for taking an interest in Wild Honey and our efforts at Santa Pod a long time ago.  And say hello to all British hot rodders!  You are all a lovely bunch!

Sture Torngren