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a b Golden, Mike (January 12, 2016). "Terry Southern: Writing to His Own Beat". Creative Screenwriting . Retrieved January 21, 2016. It will be fascinating to see how this Captain America bike heading to auction this month will go for, given the difficult authentication situation. Also, although this bike has a cleaner, more direct history, and better claim, will the other bike’s mess and high price affect this one? The bike comes with three letters of authenticity: from Graham, Haggerty, and Kruse. But, as noted above, Haggerty was never a reliable source: in 2008, he said he’d sold the original to the Guggenheim Museum. Later, he admitted that Granger’s bike had only some parts from the original ( “a few bits and pieces, a chain or a fender, nothing more”), saying he’d kept the frame for himself. Shortly after, Haggerty signed a letter that authenticated Granger’s bike, only to recant later and call it an honest mistake. The vendor, Gary Graham, was involved in the restoration to some degree, and given his close association with the project from the original burned bike to the restored bike we see at auction today, it seems almost inconceivable that this is not the authentic Captain America bike.
Only one bike remains from the four made for the 1969 'Easy Rider'movie and is one of the most recognisable motorcycles of all time. The bike was a central part of the film, which was about two drug-using bikers who went on a cross-country journey from Los Angeles to New Orleans to discover the real America. There have also been suggestions that some of the uncannily authentic-looking replicas of Captain America that continue to surface were modelled from the real thing. But this is all guesswork and no-one knows for sure.
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Dan Haggerty, pictured with the example that's due to be sold at auction next month, gave the bike a certificate of authenticity that it was the one he had rebuilt after filming had ended. However, he provided the same certification for the other example auctioned in 2014. Haggerty died in January 2016 The car features drivers say their next motor MUST have - do you agree with the 10 most popular choices? Best case scenario, you’re buying the stunt bike’s blown-up frame. They can claim to have pieces of the true cross but Jesus is gone, man, he has left the building. And so has Captain America.” Road Movies: A Bibliography of Materials in the UCB Library". Archived from the original on May 3, 2012 – via UC Berkeley.
Three of the four bikes were stolen before the movie had even wrapped (which is why they don’t appear in the final campfire scene) and their whereabouts remains unknown. Some say they were broken for parts before their significance as movie props was realised, while another rumour persists that they were stolen by Hells Angels and may well sit in a clubhouse in Oakland to this day. Turan, Kenneth (July 10, 1994). "Film Comment: How We've Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Reissue: The restored 'Dr. Strangelove' remains a potent film after 30 years". Los Angeles Times. Weiler, A. H. (January 6, 1970). "National Film Critics Crown 'Z,' Jon Voight, Miss Redgrave". The New York Times . Retrieved January 3, 2018. Government allows houses to be split into flats without planning permission: Who wins and who loses from this controversial policy? Very little of the second bike survived the flames apart from the frame, which got bent in the crash, but what was left was given to actor Dan Haggerty, who played Grizzly Adams in the 1970s kids’ TV show of the same name.A couple of funny moments. It’s the first bike I’ve ever ridden that I had to steer into a corner; none of this new-fangled counter-steering nonsense! Coupled with the square-section rear tyre, it did mean that the first looping off-ramp on the highway was a series of interesting lurches (the second one was better!).
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