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  • Sometimes, Pat and Panhead would show up just around the end of the day, and tinker and measure and mutter among themselves— without much of any work getting done— before they'd wander back to Pat's truck and disappear into the night.

    Hometown News: The Ballad of Ray and Rose Matt Lubich 2011

  • One winter, when temperatures were below zero, he would show up late at night and weld on the rails, his work creating our own private lightning storm as my wife Lesli and I lay in bed and watched television with the girls, as Pat and Panhead barked and bickered outside our bedroom window with each other, a huge go-cup of coffee made by Lesli sitting beside them and steaming up into the night.

    Hometown News: The Ballad of Ray and Rose Matt Lubich 2011

  • Today, a grinning biker by the name of Pat Day does, along with his constant companion, a wiry Jack Russell Terrier he calls“Panhead.”

    Hometown News: The Ballad of Ray and Rose Matt Lubich 2011

  • "Evensong is at 3: 30, and I've gotta see Wilco the Panhead about a bloodhound."

    Boswell Meets The Subterrans 2010

  • Other galleries, such as one devoted to Harley engines, trace the development of the power end of the machines (known by such monikers as the Knucklehead, the Shovelhead and the Panhead), and hologram-like videos on the wall show the innards of an engine exploding and reconfiguring.

    Head Out on the Highway Ann Landi 2008

  • Brother Casey and father Karl were there too, the three of them sitting in the garage drinking beers while Lenny cleaned out the carb on his yellow and orange Panhead.

    Excerpt: California Girl by T Jefferson Parker 2004

  • Lichter will travel the entire ride shooting from the back of a 1953 rigid Harley-Davidson Panhead (facing backwards), and David will return to his Golden, CO studio to commence his own personal race against time.

    Cyril Huze Blog 2010

  • One is a 1948 Panhead chopper identical to the one ridden by Peter Fonda in the 1969 movie

    News 2010

  • My '74 sportster and' 60 Duo Glide, essentially had 90 degree foot pegs, that is, the knee was at a right angle, which, for me, on the sporty sucked, and on the Panhead was perfect.

    unknown title 2009

  • The Harley TwinCam celebrates the life-long heritage of harley V-twins, all the predecessors to the mighty TwinCam, starting with the Knucklehead, Panhead, Shovelhead and ultimately Evolution "Evo" up until 1998 ...

    Epinions Recent Content for Home 2009

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