While the stories surrounding the Billy” bike and “Captain America” are numerous and contradictory, there is some doubt that the bikes were ever stolen in the first place. Furthermore, according to New Atlas, like most vintage Harleys, it is likely that the bikes were subjected to be stripped for parts, making the authentication process nearly impossible. So, the authentication process is complicated and confusing. Well, as soon as shooting wrapped on Easy Rider, the bikes used for shooting were stolen. The one that sold for $1.35 million isn’t the same one for sale here. This auction should be pretty interesting because, according to New Atlas, there are currently two different authenticated Captain America bikes. One of the claimed original bikes is set to cross the auction block on June 21 and is expected to bring somewhere around the $500,000 mark. The bike was built by chopper building legends Cliff Vaughs and Ben Hardy. People would say, 'Wow, Terry Southern co-wrote that.The Captain America bike is Peter Fonda’s star-spangled steed in Easy Rider. Having him with us as a writer on the script put it above periscope depth. Peter Fonda said of Southern's contributions, "He gave us dark humor and a literary panache that Dennis and I did not have. Well, one of them was the producer and other was the director, so there was no way the Writers Guild was going to allow them to take a screenplay credit unless I insisted." Not listening to the WGA, Southern allowed them to have their credits on the film, which was largely improvised. He said that he and Dennis liked the film so much, they wanted to be in on the screenplay credits. After they had seen a couple of screenings of it on the coast, I got a call from Peter. ![]() In an interview with Creative Screenwriting, Southern claimed, "Peter was to be the actor and producer, Dennis the actor and director, and a certain yours truly, the writer. ![]() In an interview with The Guardian, Dennis Hopper claimed that Terry Southern wrote nothing in the film besides contributing the title, as he broke his hip in a fall. Some of the scenes which were in the original cut, but got deleted are: The original opening showing Wyatt and Billy performing in a Los Angeles stunt show (their real jobs), the two of them being ripped off by the promoter, getting in a biker fight, picking up women at a drive-in, cruising to, and escaping from Mexico to score the cocaine they sell, an elaborate police and helicopter chase that took place at the beginning after the dope deal, with police chasing Wyatt and Billy over mountains, and across the Mexican border, the road trip out of Los Angeles, edited to the full length of Steppenwolf's ''Born to Be Wild'' with billboards along the way offering wry commentary, Wyatt and Billy being pulled over by a cop while driving their motorcycles across highway, two of them encountering the black motorcycle gang, ten additional minutes for the volatile café scene in Louisiana, where George deftly keeps the peace, Wyatt and Billy checking in a hotel before going over to Madam Tinkertoy's, extended and much longer Madam Tinkertoy sequence, extended versions of all of the campfire scenes, including the enigmatic finale in which Wyatt says ''We blew it, Billy.'' All deleted footage is believed to be lost. There are various reports about exact running time of original rough cut of the movie Four hours, four and a half hours, or five hours.
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