What I want to do is take two separate panels and rotate them together and keep the original look. Imagine a capital T is made up of two panels both with long bars. When I rotate the center one I need the top one to rotate as well. So while the base of the T would not move the top of the T would move quite a bit and also angle at the same time. Nothing I have done has come close to this so I was hoping someone had a solution.

i think panels do have a center position that can be altered
if its of help for you ,i dont know if you could position
that center out of the panel though ,the math dor using
vectors to rotate them from an offset position while rotation
theire angles aswell,to complcated for my tired mind

Look for center_x, center_y in the manual under Panel Properties.