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Benjamin F. Hardy (1921–1994) was an American custom motorcycle builder who made the Captain America and Billy choppers for the 1969 Peter Fonda road movie Easy Rider. [1] Ben Hardy. Replica of the "Captain America" bike in the Deutsches Zweirad- und NSU-Museum.
Easy Rider is a 1969 American road drama film written by Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, and Terry Southern, produced by Fonda, and directed by Hopper. Fonda and Hopper play two bikers who travel through the American Southwest and South, carrying the proceeds from a cocaine deal. Other actors in the film include Jack Nicholson, Karen Black and Toni ...
Peter Fonda rides a replica of the "Captain America" bike used in Easy Rider. A chopper is a type of custom motorcycle which emerged in the US state of California in the late 1950s. A chopper employs modified steering angles and lengthened forks for a stretched-out appearance.
The exhibit also features exact replicas of the customized Harley-Davidson bikes ridden by Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper in the 1969 American movie, "Easy Rider", including Fonda's "Captain America" chopper and Hopper's "Billy Bike". Two of each of the two choppers were created, and one "Captain America" was destroyed in the film's production. [11]
Harley-Davidson Panhead engine at the Harley-Davidson Museum Harley-Davidson panhead motor Replicas of the Captain America bike and Billy Bike at the Harley-Davidson Museum in Milwaukee [1] The Panhead is an overhead-valve Harley-Davidson motorcycle engine, so nicknamed because the rocker covers resembled cooking pans.
Peter Fonda, whose counterculture classic “Easy Rider” helped usher in the New Hollywood movement of the 1970s that paved the way for filmmakers from Martin Scorsese to Quentin Tarantino, has ...
Peter Fonda, Henry Fonda, and Jane Fonda at the ANTA Playhouse on December 4, 1969 in New York. Henry was an up-and-coming actor when he married Canadian socialite Frances Ford Seymour in 1936.
Peter Fonda in 2009 on a ″Captain America″ style chopper. 1980s. Captain America appears in the Spider-Man episode "The Capture of Captain America", ...