Terminator 2 Fat Boy Goes for Big Bank on Auction Block
Famous ride from T2: Judgement Day among several iconic pieces up for grabs in Hollywood auction.
In 1990, Harley-Davidson dropped the FLSTF Fat Boy onto the motorcycle market. Powered by Harley’s Twin-Cam V-Twin from the start through 2017 and riding upon solid-cast disc wheels front and rear, the Fat Boy would make a huge impact on the silver screen when in 1991 Arnold Schwarzenegger reprised his role as the T-800 in Terminator 2: Judgement Day. In the film, the T-800 steals the bike (and its owner’s clothes) to find and protect future war hero John Connor from the brand-new T-1000 liquid metal Terminator, leading to the famous chase down the Los Angeles River involving the Fat Boy and a big rig driven by the rival Terminator.
That same Fat Boy made a huge impact on the auction block in early June. Digital Trends reports the Harley was part of Profile In History’s “Icons & Legends of Hollywood” auction, which also had other items related to the Terminator franchise and the one-time Governator of California, as well as another famous motorcycle: the Lawmaster from the 1995 Sylvester Stallone flop Judge Dredd.
According to PIH, the expected winning bid was estimated to be in the $200,000 to $300,000 range, but the actual winning bid for the Fat Boy came to $480,000, 48 times the price of a non-celebrity 1990 Fat Boy in excellent condition on the used market today.
And this one would fit the bill otherwise, with only 392 miles on the odometer. However, it does need some work to ride off to an unknown future (or to Daytona Beach, at least), including installing new side mirrors for the original missing units.
Whomever the new owner is, let’s hope this piece of history will soon ride the L.A. River again, instead of being locked away in a hermetically sealed unit for investment purposes.
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