I'm looking at buying a 64 pan basket case, everything but the motor. Tranny rebuilt, tank shifter and tanks in excellent shape, plus windshield and saddle bags. Clutch and hub but no primaries. Looking at $4200. It seems like a pretty good deal but am I going to find a 64 pan motor and what am I looking at paying? Thanks

 

That is too much...way too much for a roller. The going rate (at least in Kommie Kali) is 2500-3000 if what is there is really the real deal. How do you know how much of the roller is real and not Memorex (aka Tawain Ted $hit).

 

Going to go check it out next weekend to make sure everything is original. Guys been collecting and working on bikes for a long time but not just taking his word for it. He was at $3750, thru in a rebuilt tranny and bumped it up to $4200. Saw a rolling chassis go for $5600 on ebay and it had a new paint job. This will need to be repainted, no doubt. I'm concerned about having to find a motor and what that's going to cost. Found a 56 pan in a 77 frame and trimmings for $6500. I'm wanting a project bike to bring back to stock but that one is a long way from stock. Thought this 64 would be a good way to go. He says bike it 95% there. Missing motor, exhaust and maybe primaries. Won't know for sure until I see it.

 

Partner missing the motor & those year primaries that bike is far from 95% there . Like Panz stated that's high I suspect the guys a player and he see's one coming .

 

I bet you're looking at another $4000+ for a Pan.

 

Thanks for the comments. I was thinking the same regarding the cost of the motor. Deal he initially shot me was whole bike as a basket, including the motor for $6500. That sounded reasonable. Then the motor disappeared. Said he was making a deal with a kid but the motor didn't have a title. So he hadn't come to an agreement yet. Looks like no deal for me.

Here's another question because I see a lot of this out there. How does one get a title for a bike that doesn't have one? I imagine the DMV would have to check for it being stolen.

 

Here's the problem as I see it. The bike was titled with the motor for that year. Without a motor, you just have parts requiring no title. If you get another motor it will have to be one in which it to, is what gets titled. Then the bike would be legal, and a Harley. New bikes since 1970 I believe have a 17 number vin and the frame I what gets titled, not the motor. Buying a new motor and trying to get a title for it might be more trouble then you want to go thru. They make you jump thru hoops, and it won't say Harley on the title. Might say assembled or reconstructed. That might make it hard to get insurance on or even sell for that matter.,,

 

If it has ever been licensed it has a Title. What usually is meant by no title is that the person selling it doesn't have the title and either doesn't know who'd name the title is in or that entity isn't willing to release the title.
If a person legally owns a vehicle and simply lost the paper title it is easy to get a new one.

 

The first flag that went up was the tank shifter- on a '64?

If you're looking to restoring a frame for show or value, and building it from scratch, you're talking about a huge chunk of change.

The frame will be a Duo Glide without the '65 frame step up for a electric starter- the tin should be original, the wheels will be 16's.

Watch the frame for cracks, downtube plugs, and alteration.

As for me, I would buy a running model and deconstruct it to your tastes- a lot easier and you can ride it while you customize it- but that's just me.

A 1964 engine just sold on ebay for $5500.00 as is- so there's a ballpark +/-.

http://motorcycles.yakaz.com/1964-pa...01nmarsiktj4fs

http://motorcycles.yakaz.com/1964-pa...0efpk7u37re5ki

http://motorcycles.yakaz.com/1964-pa...05vt5or2jvlfg6

 

Also be wary of no titles and questionable SN#s...in WA any part reported stolen renders the whole bike as stolen and is returned to the original party.

I found that out when I was getting my living room built 1942 WLA inspected (mine was clean-mainly US Gov't parts).


http://news.yahoo.com/video/local-15...-30179153.html

http://masontshaw.wordpress.com/2011/06/09/176/