At a 1996 auction, Haggerty told Granger he was buying the real deal. The problem is that Haggerty has said that twice - in writing. The burly, bearded actor used those remains, he said, to restore the chopper to its original glory.
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After the movie shoot, Haggerty said, Hall gave him the remains of the crashed Captain America. The three remaining bikes were stolen from the film’s stuntman - at gunpoint, from Tex Hall’s home, while he and his wife were bound and gagged, Fonda and Haggerty said. The Captain America stunt double was crashed and almost destroyed in the filming of “Easy Rider’s” final sequence in which Hopper and Fonda are shotgunned off their motorcycles by a hippie-hating redneck. The extra bikes were to be ridden by stunt doubles, or by the stars in case of mechanical difficulties. They commissioned two chopper builders in Watts to fashion two Captain America bikes for Fonda’s character and two “Billy” bikes for Hopper’s. The history of the “Easy Rider” motorcycles is a twisted one.īefore filming began in 1968, Fonda and Dennis Hopper, his “Easy Rider” director and costar, bought four used Harley-Davidson motorcycles at a Los Angeles Police Department auction. “There’s a big rat stinking someplace in this,” the 74-year-old actor said. But he retracted that authentication in an interview with The Times this week, saying Haggerty duped him.įonda said he has no idea which bike - if either - was the one actually crashed in the movie. Parham said the sale was contingent, in fact, on Fonda’s blessing.īelieving it to be the real machine, Fonda signed the gas tank. Peter Fonda - who co-wrote “Easy Rider” and rode Captain America in the movie - once authenticated that bike, at Haggerty’s request, after Parham bought it. “Dan Haggerty is the only guy who knows,” Eisenberg said. Its principal authentication comes from “Grizzly Adams” actor Dan Haggerty, who had a bit part in “Easy Rider” and claims to have taken possession of the only bike that survived the filming of the druggy road movie. It was the motorcycle’s owner, Michael Eisenberg, who made Fonda that offer.
17 Section A about the auction of a motorcycle said to have been used in the film “Easy Rider” said that the auction house Profiles in History offered actor Peter Fonda a share in the proceeds to promote the sale. With its star-spangled gas tank, it might be the most famous motorcycle in history.īut caveat emptor: This Captain America might be a phony. If the bike is in fact the real deal, that just might be a steal.This weekend, the gavel will fall at a Calabasas auction of the “Captain America” chopper used in the filming of the 1969 movie “Easy Rider.”īidding for the gleaming vintage Harley-Davidson could reach $1.2 million, estimates the auction house, Profiles in History, which specializes in Hollywood artifacts. The bike, which is no longer operational, is expected to sell for between $300,000 and $500,000, according to autoevolution. “The motorcycle we are selling is the crash bike from the movie Easy Rider,” a spokesperson for the auction house said in no uncertain terms to FT.Īlthough its provenance is now up in the air, this version of Captain America is still expected to fetch top dollar when it goes up for bid on June 21. Granger’s bike, which is now being sold by his estate, comes with three certificates of authenticity, including one signed by Haggerty who died in 2016. It was another Captain America that Haggerty claimed was the true bike. It was sold again in 2014 for $1.35 million, except that the bike that was sold wasn’t the one Granger had bought. It was then sold at auction to Texas realtor Gordon Granger for $63,500 in 1996. Haggerty, who would go on to star in The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams, restored the wrecked Captain America and would later display it at the Iowa State Fair. The other bikes? Those were all stolen shortly after production wrapped. Rather than be sent to the scrap yard following filming, it was returned to Dan Haggerty who had customized the four old, beat-up Harleys that were used for filming, according to the Financial Times. This particular bike is said to have been used for a fiery crash scene at the end of the movie.
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