Captain America Auction
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Captain America Auction
Supposedly this is the bike that was wrecked in the final scene of Easy Rider. Who knows for sure, there are a lot of claims.
https://www.cordandkruse.com/vehicle...ike-motorcycle
https://www.cordandkruse.com/vehicle...ike-motorcycle
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From: la la land jerzey
As i know it tedd at V Twin owns the real one its a 1948 and is in his museum with the other bike hoppers and next to those two is Indian Larry’s bike _they were cousins
both displays have all the memorabilia from pictures 3 ft by 2 feet of the exact bikes that are his and helmets and clothes - and movie stuff as well as letters of conformation of ownership from the film company < but i am sure that is all fake just like the other 500 to 600 antiques he owns in the place along with one of every model of Indian made from 1901 to 1953 and a 1949 proto type only one was built along with board track and hill climb as well as a dealer ship shop garage with all the tools and equipment from the 30s
so yea that’s great they found another one - bend over when you pay for it would be what’s going to happen
both displays have all the memorabilia from pictures 3 ft by 2 feet of the exact bikes that are his and helmets and clothes - and movie stuff as well as letters of conformation of ownership from the film company < but i am sure that is all fake just like the other 500 to 600 antiques he owns in the place along with one of every model of Indian made from 1901 to 1953 and a 1949 proto type only one was built along with board track and hill climb as well as a dealer ship shop garage with all the tools and equipment from the 30s
so yea that’s great they found another one - bend over when you pay for it would be what’s going to happen
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The magazine article said this isn't the JP one.
So—that leaves the destroyed Captain America stunt bike, which was supposedly rebuilt by Dan Haggerty, of Grizzly Adams fame. That’s the motorcycle coming up for sale. Or is it?There have been many replicas of the star-spangled Captain America chopper over the years, but Haggerty’s bike was the Holy Grail, due to its supposed originality. In 2014, collector Michael Eisenberg paid a whopping $1.35 million for the Captain America, buying it from John Parham, president of the National Motorcycle Museum. Parham said he’d bought it from Haggerty in the early 2000s.
Then, another collector, Gordon Granger, kicked up a fuss, saying he had purchased the movie bike in 1996. And in 2008, Haggerty also allegedly claimed he’d sold the original bike to the Guggenheim Museum. Talk about a tangled web indeed, and considering the chopper’s status (a rebuild of a crashed rebuild), who’s to say what the truth is? Haggerty himself said he made a “mistake” when he signed a certificate of authenticity for Granger’s bike.
Word on the street is Eisenberg’s $1.35-million buy didn’t actually go through back in 2014, as a result of the controversy. For a more in-depth look at the tangled web behind this story, there’s an LA Times story here. Maxim has a write-up here.
The bike that’s coming up for sale in Texas is the Gordon Granger bike. There’s no reserve on the listing. It’s set to hit the block around June 21-24; see the listing here for more details.
So—that leaves the destroyed Captain America stunt bike, which was supposedly rebuilt by Dan Haggerty, of Grizzly Adams fame. That’s the motorcycle coming up for sale. Or is it?There have been many replicas of the star-spangled Captain America chopper over the years, but Haggerty’s bike was the Holy Grail, due to its supposed originality. In 2014, collector Michael Eisenberg paid a whopping $1.35 million for the Captain America, buying it from John Parham, president of the National Motorcycle Museum. Parham said he’d bought it from Haggerty in the early 2000s.
Then, another collector, Gordon Granger, kicked up a fuss, saying he had purchased the movie bike in 1996. And in 2008, Haggerty also allegedly claimed he’d sold the original bike to the Guggenheim Museum. Talk about a tangled web indeed, and considering the chopper’s status (a rebuild of a crashed rebuild), who’s to say what the truth is? Haggerty himself said he made a “mistake” when he signed a certificate of authenticity for Granger’s bike.
Word on the street is Eisenberg’s $1.35-million buy didn’t actually go through back in 2014, as a result of the controversy. For a more in-depth look at the tangled web behind this story, there’s an LA Times story here. Maxim has a write-up here.
The bike that’s coming up for sale in Texas is the Gordon Granger bike. There’s no reserve on the listing. It’s set to hit the block around June 21-24; see the listing here for more details.
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From: la la land jerzey
Its all bull anyway - come on 1.35 million for a bike that was in a movie really
the bate and switch sell the same thing to mutable people before the web was easy - straight up con
the bate and switch sell the same thing to mutable people before the web was easy - straight up con
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