I finally have a chance to build myself sometimes, so I want to do like an Indian larry style build with half pan and shovel build with my own spin of things... u never really see that combination around, plus I always been 1 for the more frankenstein type of builds. I have the vision on what I want now I just need help finding the research on what it is I want to do.

 

66-69 Shovel motor is a good start. They are a Pan bottom with a Shovel top; always called them Genny-Shovels. Only made by MoCo for those years before they switched over to the cone motor.

 

Or...go the other way...Cone bottom panheads!

 

This is what I call a pan/shovel.

 

Well it is definitely 'different'!

 

Not a pan anything, a Genny Shovel is merely that, nothing whatsoever to do with a pan, bottom or otherwise.

 

Appearances...is a Whatsoever... Like it or not
Wonder what the OP came up with??
Seems to me it is too esy to Mistake a Pan-Shovel for a Generator Shovel, and Since the MoCo did it already... the uniqueness is Gone...
Was probably Kinda OK back when the Shovel was New... Maybe..
I still don't mind a Cone Bottom Pan...especially with heads like from Accurate, that really Work... just a bit more Unique..
No... The Purist in me can Barely tolerate that as well!!!!

 

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Back in the day, guys used to put shovel heads on their pan bottoms.
They just looked like '66-'69 genny shovels.
I get the desire to be unique, but combining one pan and one shovel top just looks like you didn't have enough of the right parts to finish the build. I would think mating the intake manifold would be the biggest issue.