Just like its now endangered four-legged namesake, a Panther is a rare sight these days. I suppose you could put that down to the waning popularity of sidecar outfits; something the big cats have become synonymous with over the years. In fact, even makers Phelon & Moore were once quoted as saying that 90% of their 594cc Model 100s would end up attached to a chair.
Though it was perhaps not the vocation founders Joah ‘John’ Carver Phelon and Richard Moore would have wished for their then top-of-the-line, fast-touring models, the Panther heavyweights’ prevalence as sidecar pullers was something they embraced. The Model 100’s successor – the 645cc Model 120 – was produced with sidecar gearing and sidecar fork-trail as standard; solo gearing being a free-of-charge factory option.
Even with…
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The Classic MotorCycle (Digital) - 1 Issue, April 2025