Villers Panther

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So I had to help the inlaws shuffle cars to the Honda dealer. While i was waiting for them to finish paperwork i wandered around and found this. Pretty cool little scoot.
Villers Panther
 
Nice, back when style wasn't generated in a wind tunnel based on a finite element analysis routine that converges to the same solution every time.

Translation: This bike came when they actually styled things, as opposed to now when everything looks the same as they are all designed by computers that essentially come up with the same solution.
 
Probably the 9E engine (197cc single). It was the most popular of the Villiers motors.
 
Styling (and pressed frame ?) looks like it came from Puch or Horex or euro similar ?
 
Panther was a small, specialist motorcycle company, best known for their big "Sloper" bikes desgined primarily for sidecar use. The name came from the layout, where the cylinder followed the angle of the front downtube. The engine may even have been integrated into the frame structure.

They had a big, single-cylinder engine, 650cc I think, and may have been the side-valve type (L-head for our US readers) through to the end. They disappeared from the market place in the early 1960s. I'm not sure they ever exported the "Sloper"to the US.
 
frankdamp said:
Panther was a small, specialist motorcycle company, best known for their big "Sloper" bikes desgined primarily for sidecar use. The name came from the layout, where the cylinder followed the angle of the front downtube. The engine may even have been integrated into the frame structure.

They had a big, single-cylinder engine, 650cc I think, and may have been the side-valve type (L-head for our US readers) through to the end. They disappeared from the market place in the early 1960s. I'm not sure they ever exported the "Sloper"to the US.
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The post War 600 and 650 singles were OHV. Don't know about older ones. There were 250 and 350 vertical cylinder OHV singles too.
 
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