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"Dennis was my dear friend and I loved him very, very much," Madsen said by telephone. Madsen, a married father of five who lives in Malibu and rides Harleys when he's not making movies, said he heard the voice of Hopper telling him to set the record straight for anyone who thought the real Captain America bike had been sold - or was out there waiting to be sold. That’s kind of nostalgic and nice, but the truth is - it isn’t."
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"They're willing to pay $1 million to imagine that’s the bike. "Everyone wants to believe that’s the bike," Madsen growled. Given all the questions about the Captain America motorcycle's provenance, why would anyone pay $1.62 million for it? "They were in a storage unit," Madsen said. Madsen said Hopper disputed the lurid story of how armed gunmen stole three of the motorcycles from Easy Rider stuntman Tex Hall, who, the story goes, later went hunting for the thieves with a machine gun. Indeed, Madsen had told Hopper he was interested in acquiring the "Billy bike," the motorcycle that Hopper had ridden in the drug-filled, 1969 road movie.īut Hopper told him the four bikes used in the making of Easy Rider had all been stolen or destroyed.
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Madsen, who was shooting a movie in Romania before heading to Colorado for the December production of his Reservoir Dogs and Kill Bill director Quentin Tarantino's western, Hateful Eight, said Hopper told him many stories of the making of Easy Rider. "Dennis Hopper, from his grave, is telling you, through Michael Madsen, 'That ain't the Captain America' bike'." "That thing they sold?" the gravel-voiced veteran actor said. The veteran actor became close friends with Hopper while the two were working on the 2008 biker movie Hell Ride and Hopper, Madsen said, told him the whole story of making Easy Rider and what happened to the motorcycles used in filming it.Īnd the bike sold at the weekend isn't one of them, Madsen said. Reservoir Dogs and Kill Bill actor Michael Madsen was so outraged by the auction sale that he telephoned, from a movie set in Romania, to voice his concerns. "There's a big rat stinking someplace in this," the veteran actor said last week. Haggerty claimed to have built this "Captain America" bike from the wreckage of the fourth bike, which was nearly destroyed in filming the movie's dramatic finale.Įisenberg and auction house Profiles in History cited Haggerty as their principal reference in authenticating the bike, even though Haggerty admitted to The LA Times that he had already sold and authenticated a different "Captain America" bike, years before, and provided written assurances to its owner that it was the one true remaining Easy Rider chopper.įonda, who co-wrote the Easy Rider screenplay and drew the original sketch on which the iconic, stretched chopper was based, told The LA Times he was very concerned by Haggerty's previous authentication, and hoped the auction would be called off. Haggerty had confirmed for Eisenberg stories that three of the four Easy Rider bikes were stolen and sold for parts before the movie was released. Haggerty had a small part in Easy Rider, and helped work on the four motorcycles used in the filming of the druggy road movie. The chrome-heavy, star-spangled Harley Davidson panhead, ridden by actor Peter Fonda in the ground-breaking movie directed by his co-star Dennis Hopper, was owned by Los Angeles Realtor and movie memorabilia collector Michael Eisenberg.Įisenberg bought the "Captain America" bike earlier this year, having become convinced it was the last remaining Easy Rider motorcycle by Dan Haggerty, the actor most known for his role as Grizzly Adams. SOLD: The last remaining "Captain America" chopper from the Easy Rider movie has sold for a reported world record price.ĭespite reports that cast doubt on its authenticity, a "Captain America" chopper purported to be the last remaining motorcycle used in the filming of the 1969 movie Easy Rider has sold at auction for US$1.35 million (NZ$1.69m) - or just more than US$1.6m (NZ$2m), after auction fees are included.