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Offline twincamzz

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Sumpthin' shiny for my Panhead...
« on: Wednesday, April 04, 2012. 02:21:30 PM. »
I picked up a set of wheel covers for ol' Norma Jean, my '61 Panhead & thought I'd post a few pix for y'all. I know chrome won't get ya home...but I gotta admit I do like a bit of "bling" on the old girl. Sorry about the crappy pix...normally my camera does better than this. It could also be operator error. lol.







Last pic shows the side I modified. That's right...once I got them off the big brown truck they weren't quite like what the ad had appeared to show. So, I took my Dremel tool w/ cutoff wheel & went to town to graft an old hubcap to this side of the wheel cover for the look I was after. I made some stainless steel brackets & used stainless steel hardware to tie everything together. Nothing like hacking up brand new chrome...but
 I 'm pretty stoked about the end result.
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Offline Lew

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Re: Sumpthin' shiny for my Panhead...
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday, April 04, 2012. 02:33:34 PM. »
 :up: :up: Very nice!
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Offline War Horse

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Re: Sumpthin' shiny for my Panhead...
« Reply #2 on: Wednesday, April 04, 2012. 02:42:37 PM. »
Cool, time to polish up that drum brake tho........ just sayin  :teeth:
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Offline fourthgear

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Re: Sumpthin' shiny for my Panhead...
« Reply #3 on: Wednesday, April 04, 2012. 03:27:02 PM. »
Now the wind will blow you side ways  :hyst:
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Offline panjs

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Re: Sumpthin' shiny for my Panhead...
« Reply #4 on: Wednesday, April 04, 2012. 03:34:27 PM. »
Looks like she's smiling  :beer:
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Re: Sumpthin' shiny for my Panhead...
« Reply #5 on: Wednesday, April 04, 2012. 03:43:36 PM. »
Quote from: twincamzz on Wednesday, April 04, 2012. 02:21:30 PM.
I picked up a set of wheel covers for ol' Norma Jean, my '61 Panhead & thought I'd post a few pix for y'all. I know chrome won't get ya home...but I gotta admit I do like a bit of "bling" on the old girl. Sorry about the crappy pix...normally my camera does better than this. It could also be operator error. lol.







Last pic shows the side I modified. That's right...once I got them off the big brown truck they weren't quite like what the ad had appeared to show. So, I took my Dremel tool w/ cutoff wheel & went to town to graft an old hubcap to this side of the wheel cover for the look I was after. I made some stainless steel brackets & used stainless steel hardware to tie everything together. Nothing like hacking up brand new chrome...but
 I 'm pretty stoked about the end result.


Nice!
And to think I threw all that stuff away years ago!
 :rtfb:
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Offline Deye76

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Re: Sumpthin' shiny for my Panhead...
« Reply #6 on: Wednesday, April 04, 2012. 05:32:35 PM. »
Sweet, might as well have a go at the sliders after the drum get's polished.  :wink: Very nice bike.
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Offline Snuff™

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Re: Sumpthin' shiny for my Panhead...
« Reply #7 on: Wednesday, April 04, 2012. 06:14:49 PM. »
Look'in sweet! :smiled:

...and to think, all that time I spent removing the rust, painting my hubs and all I had to do was buy some chrome covers. :emoGroan:
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Offline CraigArizona85248

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Re: Sumpthin' shiny for my Panhead...
« Reply #8 on: Friday, April 06, 2012. 06:59:52 AM. »
Nice!  The covers look very cool.
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Offline Lew

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Re: Sumpthin' shiny for my Panhead...
« Reply #9 on: Friday, April 06, 2012. 04:16:03 PM. »
Quote from: Deye76 on Wednesday, April 04, 2012. 05:32:35 PM.
Sweet, might as well have a go at the sliders after the drum get's polished.  :wink: Very nice bike.


 :up: Might throw a set of these http://www.jpcycles.com/product/2200130 on there too.
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