The awesome 120” Panhead engine designed by Accurate Engineering really grabbed our attention at Barnett’s. In 2006, Accurate Engineering made history with this same engine in The Salt Shaker, piloted by Valerie Thompson, who blasted across the flats at 141.465 mph. “This is the exact duplicate motor to that,” Jerry said. “It runs real well. This is actually our third one. ‘Course they don’t run like a Twin Cam does, but they make some good power, very torquey. It’s hard to explain, it’s kind of like the difference between the Panhead and Evo. To me they make more low end, low and mid, and they’re not as waspy as the Twin Cam is.”

All the engraving you see on Sledking was done by Hernan of Montclair, California. “Actually, me and David and the owner all came up with that,” Jerry said. “The customer had one of our choppers that was engraved, so when we were building this we were all talking about engraving and giving it a more nostalgic look especially since we were going with the Panhead. They call ’50 Mercurys ‘Sleds’, so we did the lake pipes on it with the three caps and all that like you do on a Merc’. We kind of put together a Sled and it kinda looks like a Road King…which it never was a Road King whatsoever, it’s a totally ground up custom. The frame is from Rolling Thunder. We just built the whole thing custom from the ground up.”

Another cool feature of Sledking that you don’t see every day is the keyless remote Gator Bags. “You can get fifty feet from the bike and raise or lower the saddlebag lid, or both at the same time,” Jerry said. The bags also have tooled leather. “That’s really unusual because you either see leather bags or hard bags and we have both,” Jerry said. “It kind of needed the leather to pull the bike together and give it a little more of the older look. It’s cool that way; you can have electric bags, bags that don’t change shape, and you still have leather.”

The bike also features tooled leather on the seat and grips. Jerry said they custom-built the belt guard to look like the early style Panhead primary covers. “That’s all machined out of billet, we machined all the parts here,” he said. The bike has a center stand. “You just drop it down on the center stand and it sits real low and straight up,” he added.

“We did the early-style BAKER OD6 trans and made it so it attaches to the early-style motor,” Jerry explained. “It’s all rubber mount just like a late model Road King or bagger with a Panhead motor, which is totally unusual. We had to do a little fitting machining in between the motor and the trans but it worked out.

Be sure and check in with Covingtons Cycle City to see their latest customs and complete line of production bikes at http://www.covingtonscyclecity.com/#scene=Motorcycles.

For more information on the keyless Gator Boxes check ‘em out at http://www.gatorboxes.net/products.htm.