Gas Axe Chop Shop wins FreeStyle at COTA/AIMExpo

September 27, 2017 By jeff najar

Gas Axe Chop Shop wins FreeStyle class and receives the AMD World Championship prize at Championship of the Americas during AIMExpo

Voted for by the custom bike show competitors, Tim Dixon of Gas Axe Chop Shop took the ‘W’ with a 1959 Panhead engined hand-crafted chopper called ‘Pennie Lane’. Custom designed, using a Model A front axle/reverse shock set-up with a Model A front spring for the rear swingarm, all the work was done in-house by Dixon and his talented crew with most of it on his manual machines.

Gas Axe Chop Shop wins Championship of the Americas during AIMExpo

The engine has an Andrews cam and the magnesium front wheel is from a 1960s dragster; all the brass/copper pieces were handmade.

The award for his FreeStyle win is an expenses paid trip to compete at the AMD World Championship of Custom Bike Building at INTERMOT, located in Cologne, Germany, on October 2018.

More Class Winners

The Street Custom Class win went to Dusty Pine/Dawg’s Chop Shop with the hardtail framed 1200cc 1993 Sportster.

Pat Patterson of Led Sled took the Performance Custom class win (goose neck rigid framed 1200cc Sportster).

Austin Andrella of Austin Martin Originals took Retro Custom class win with a hardtailed 1972 Yamaha XS650.

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