Funny how shit works sometimes. I never thought I'd ever get a Panhead project in my hands, but as of today I'm working with, albeit the muttiest damn pan on earth, but a Pan project nevertheless. Sold Dale at just the right time, made the right drunken pitch for Brian to sell me one of his 4 generator mills, something shiny dangled in front of his face, and whammo! Welcome home Panhead.
Now what are we lookin at here? Good question. Here's the rundown. Let's start with the motor. Today I brought home a basket bottom end of a Panhead. Left case is a '51 and the right a '64 (hey I warned you it was a mutt). I've got the flywheels, cam side gears, etc. pretty much complete. Brian also threw in lifter blocks, pushrods, and a set of shovel jugs and pistons in case I can't wait and go to a PanShovel setup. Just looking for heads and rocker boxes yet.
The frame is a '58 Panhead frame I got from the Red Deer swap last year. Its Stretched in the down tubes and backbone just a bit and raked. It will remain a swinger with those little sprung strut things. I traded a 35mm front end for it. Habahaha. The forks are chromed 33's with 6" over tubes. These and the Juice drum brake on the 16" wheel from the first pic I got from Brian at the Chop Meet. Looking to transfer the Juice drum to a 19" Akront Shouldered Rim that's on it's way from outta town. The front wheel is a 19 Dunlop with a hallcraft mini drum. I'm hoping to get a 1.60 21" rim to lace the hub to. Tank is a fiberglass sporty. Might go for a frisco style narrowed sporty later on...{sneezing}HamBone-. So there we go. A long road ahead, but it's Jordan's Panhead.
