Category Archives: Chris’ Pan

I just recently found out that Chris’ Panhead was featured in Romanian magazine ‘Auto Test’. It’s basically their version of Auto Trend. Pretty cool.

The finished machine turned out really nice, if I do say so myself. The killer paint job was done by Brian Bass of Bass Kustom in Dallas.

I just LOVE putting a bike back together once all the parts are ‘prettied-up’. Like I mentioned earlier, I had to do some serious chopping on this control to get it to clear the generator cover. I also shortened the … Continue reading →

With mock-up done, it was time for tear-down. Note the integral risers welded to the bars…can’t get any cleaner than that.

Chris liked the look of cocktail shaker mufflers, so I built a custom exhaust around a pair of ‘em. I thought they turned out great…just a little bit of funkyness to them, but still very classy. Also note the 2000-2006 … Continue reading →

Sissy bar was pretty straight-forward. Mounted the usual way, with one of my sissy bar mounting kits. Also mounted the old Bates-style seat, which had a really cool look to it.

There is nothing worse than a rear fender that doesn’t fit the tire properly. In order to get this one right, I had to re-radius the fender with a few 2×4′s…basically to ‘widen’ the fender, and in turn, tighten it’s … Continue reading →

It is ALWAYS a good idea to rubber-mount (or leather-mount) gas and oil tanks to fight vibration, so we decided to use a softail-style (Evo era) oil tank, and take advantage of the rubber mounts that they offer. This required … Continue reading →

Chris is a friend of mine who live a couple miles up the road from me. He needed some help getting his Panhead on the road…so over to my garage it came. It started off as a basic rolling chassis … Continue reading →