And so, as two fates, one of the engineers, the other a new, young fanbase of the Harley experience, powered towards each other, they finally collided in 1948. The Panhead, or more correctly engine ...

Even better is when the tiny version is functional. That's what makes this minuscule 9cc Harley-Davidson Panhead engine so cool. It runs and sounds almost like the real thing! Swinging a leg over ...

When the grandson of co-founder William Davidson gathered a group of investors to buy Harley-Davidson from AMF, it had seen better days. Quality had sunk to new lows, and the Panhead engine was ...

Harley-Davidson's Shovelhead engine debuted in the mid-1960s after ... Naturally, as the successor to the Panhead (which itself came after the Knucklehead), it was pretty obvious that Harley ...

Several years before, in 1936, Harley had introduced the ... despite lasting for about a decade, the engine inspired all that came afterward. The panhead, named so because the chrome rocker ...

Initially a 1957 Harley-Davidson EL ... At the core of the Top Chop’s frame sits a Panhead engine with Shovelhead looks, and gifted with a Magneto ignition and a Mikuni carburetor.

Custom bikes have been around the islands for a long time. In the late '50s and early '60s, the local riders would chop and bob the rear fenders of their original knucklehead and panhead Harleys ...