Ducati Pantah

Part 2 in the series of legendary Ducatis

I first saw a Ducati 500 SL Pantah, one of the early versions, at the Castrol Six-Hour race at Amaroo Park in Sydney, in October 1979. It provided a fresh take on Ducati’s 90-degree V-twin by combining the best features of the existing larger capacity bevel twins and the smaller capacity parallel twins that it replaced. Immediately impressed, I then fol…