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This car has been obscure charisma - Pan’s simple lines and compact dimensions (on a 108-inch wheelbase chassis), there is a presence. The first thing you notice is its identification. If the sun shines, the splendour of the word ‘Pan’ floors beveled glass in the windows back immediately draws in the eye.

But the history of Pan is a scandal and corruption. Pandolfo founder Samuel had the life insurance business in south-west and he designed his car during his business trips. In 1916, it was money for his new Minnesota automobile companies, promoting the ideal of workers in a village of Saint-Cloud (near Minneapolis) on a tabloid-style newspaper company Pan siftings. They contain descriptions of the oldest living person in the country (supposedly 130 years) and a banker, several cars, Charles Schwab. Pandolfo sells some $ 4 million in Pan Motor Co. reserve, then half the revenue in his personal account.

Registration of prototypes, production of cars began in 1919, as Pandolfo and his
Some members and attempted fraud have been sentenced. A beneficiary has been appointed to
Production of about 750 cars. If a $ 1085 Dodge was the class benchmark, Pan price was high, $ 1250, it is hardly surprising the severe recession of 1920-21, at the end of production. Pandolfo himself was more resistant, but also new businesses. The year 1950 saw the sell life insurance in Alaska.

This Pan has 32,000 kilometers per hour. Parker Wickham Long Island in possession of the car for 15 years before the donation last year on the AACA Museum in Hershey, Pennsylvania.

Wickham has been a visiting professor at the Reynolds Museum in Calgary, Alberta, as a prisoner of Pan’s eye. “I found it amazing when I bought it,” says collector, favors, opaque. The car took a few mechanical changes - ignition work, cleaning carburetors and others - Wickham finished in his store. He added a new beginning. Wickham not much Pan, go several kilometres on an exhibition was the car on the longest journey.

Starting the Pan is simple: press a button starter on the floor, and a rotation of the key is the process. With the help of three-speed circuit requires some thought with the reversible in the upper right quadrant of the first passage below. Each door is a period design feature - a leather patch at the top of the door means that you do not have to rely on a bare metal arm.

Once launched is clear why manufacturers kept the trip by car body style. The day we Pan was cool and windy, and it did not last long, until we have detected, there is no real protection against the elements. Raising the top does not begin to replicate a closed car in the comfort imperfect time.

The rugged Continental 34 hp four-cylinder engine crankshaft against gravity, it looks like forklift to the challenge of driving in and out of the hills. The two-wheel mechanical brakes require a good amount of printing work - not unusual for this vintage cars.

On the back of Pan, partly hidden by tire replacement is specialized tank - a function patented. It is a delivery form of stem of a large toolbox locked with extra fuel tanks (12 gallons of gas tank is under the coat), oil, ice and water. It is also a refrigerator. Pan was a vehicle for people who have a lot of travel. To that end, the seats comply with a bed, turn on the headlamps swivel work on the engine.

Enthusiasm for Pan. The tourism is one of five known to exist. The other four have yet to Saint-Cloud, Saint-Cloud where the Antique Auto Club - also known as Pan-Towners - contributes to the maintenance of these cars.