I normally don't reveal our future magazine projects because once we do there are always unanticipated problems that slow us down. Like missing parts or ones that don't fit or work right, or magazine deadlines that take priority.
Well, as forum members I am going to share with you my next classic project bike. It's a fairly original but poorly restored 1948 Harley Panhead I bought a few years ago and have been trying to get around to doing. It has not run in years and we'll have to find out why once we start laying on wrenches.
Here is a before photo I took a few days ago, sorry it's not better quality but lousy lighting in the garage.
Our goal is to throw it into our truck and drive down to Wheels Through Time Museum in Maggie Valley, NC next Sunday. We are assembling a small but dedicated and experienced team to tear it all the way down (the easy part), fix and repair everything that needs it and to reassemble it (the tough part) as a correct and fully functioning machine by Friday. Yep, in five days we will either be heroes or zeros. But I suspect we will all be exhausted either way.
Now I realize it ususally takes a year or more to tackle an undertaking like this, but what the heck, we're all pretty busy, so we decided to do it in 5 days. We will not be painting or plating anything so we won't have to wait for those time consuming tasks.
The team is Dale & Matt Walksler, Matt Olsen, me, and whoever else we can scare up around the museum.
Full coverage (with better photos) scheduled for later in the year in American Iron Magazine.
Wish us luck.
1948 Panhead Project 
Missing my ol' pan 
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