What happens when you have a sweet stock Knucklehead, a killer Panhead chopper, and a generator Shovel project? You buy another Knuckle of course! Joe "Dynamite" Kerivan has loved riding his stock Knuckle for many years know and could never bring himself to turn it into a chopper, so he started looking for a pre-Panhead project to do just this with.
He found one for sale in Oregon not too far from where his brother lives which was all the excuse Joe needed to go check it out and spend some time with his brother. Joe made it to the not-so-good part of Eugene where the old man lived that was selling it and was in for a treat. The geezer had owned the bike for at least the last 20 years and was only letting it go to buy his ol' lady a new hip-that's love. Joe handed the stranger a stack of hundreds and without even counting it the man stuffed it in his pocket-upon questioning from Joe about counting it, he said it felt like enough.
Joe loaded the bike in his truck and before heading back to Southern California, he just had to take some of the not so "neat" stuff off so his new project would look better in the rear view of Joe's truck for the next day and a half. With plenty of road time to build the bike in his head, Joe got thinking about an old 2-over narrow Ness springer he had that might work for it along with a few other bits and pieces. Upon arrival back home, his friend John Edwards came over with a few tanks to try on, but it wasn't until many months later that John presented Joe with the off-set filler molded Wassell tank we see here. Joe was sold, but he just had to decide how he wanted John to paint it. That was much easier said than done, so he just told John to do whatever he felt like.
John doesn't rush into things, he thought about it for a while, trying to come up with something that would work right with the squiggles of molded rod on the tank and came up with what we see here using all House of Kolor supplies-candy blue and pearl white panels over a straight black base.
Chica would handle most of the fab work on the '47 including the simple and unique sissy bar and modifying the NOS Superior shotgun pipes. He also wired the whole bike. Of course one of the unusual features of the bike is its frontend paired with the new old stock rabbit ear bars and the dual Ford parking lights used for headlights. After all, Joe wanted something just a little off the norm when it comes to Knucklehead choppers and to be a bit different, but not just for the sake of being different. Joe has had the scooter on the road for a while now and comfortably cruises it atop an old ribbed Bates seat and matching P-pad that put his knees right in the breeze where they belong.