Here’s another ‘62 only not nearly as comfortable as the one above

 

This is my Panhead I built in 1972. It started life as a 1952 rigid wishbone frame. Like most of us in the 60's and 70's we couldn't leave well enough alone. I bought the front end from and upstart named Arlen Ness (I met him at a bike show in New York) for about $250 - handlebars included. The Weber carb I got off an Alpha Romeo in a junk yard and can't remember where I got the manifold from. I painted it with rattle cans with the help of a buddy who worked in a body shop. I remember my brother, who worked in a machine shop after school, milled off the ridges on the cam cover and tossed a bunch of parts in a company bin for chrome plating! Score! No front break and mechanical in the rear. It was a great bar-hopper but that's about it. Pogo'ed like crazy, but wh

en you're 18...............

 

'55 FL. My first bike, bought in '76. It didn't look like this when I bought it, but got bit by the restoration bug in '84, and it's been like this ever since. I put the oil tank sticker on when I polished the heads and put an "H" cam and upgraded the valve springs.

 

I had thought I posted my bike on this thread before but didn't see the reply, so I wanted to show it now.

 

1951

 

My 65 Pan

 

THAT is the PERFECT Motorbike....in every way

 

That is the PERFECT MOTORBIKE.... in everyway

 

Lots of aftermarket parts, but 'good bones' as they say. It was at a daytime bike night near Bradenton FL