Harley Hits the Silver Screen
Happy Memorial Day! If you've managed to catch a movie this weekend, there's a good chance you watched Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, which has already racked up an estimated $143 million worldwide in only four days.
Featured in the film is a 2007 Harley-Davidson Softail Springer Classic modified to look fifty years older, and according to the LA Times that look came mostly through Harley accessory parts. The Times mentions that bike builder Justin Kell made the bikes stuntworthy by shedding 70 pounds and adding about 30 horsepower. Five bikes were used in the flick, two of which will be go display at Harley's museum when it opens on July 12, 2008.
I haven't seen the movie yet, so I'd love to hear your thoughts if you have-- are those chase scenes all they're cracked up to be?
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Comments
I’ve heard that this movie is pretty good - not quite as good as the first - but way better than the others.
Scottie,
Are ya gonna catch it? I think I’d only want to see this one in the theater…
Basem
Wow….this is way cool…Hubby rides a Harley, I ride a Yamaha, but just told him this morning I would take him to see “Indiana Jones” if he would take ME to see “Sex in the City”
Ride Safe Always,
Deb.
I saw the movie last night. We thought it was good. I did spot the twin cam cylinder heads, so I knew it was a newer bike, made to look old.
Movie was awesome. Motorcycle scenes were fun to watch. But you get a sense that he left the bike in Peru…what a waste.
If it’s a harley, why does it look so much like an INDIAN?
SURE THE GAS IS ON THE WRONG SIDE BUT THIS IS HOLLYWOOD AFTER ALL.
Also, Note; Hyd Brake Fluid Res., Heads? (I thought it would, at least, a Knuckle),…etc. Well, it is “Hollywood”! But then I haven’t seen the movie, YET.
great movie..but..they should have used a harley of that period..at least for the close ups..man I would have bought the movie just to see one of those bikes puting it on..
that is great i wish to have one
Greetings. It’s fun to see things on movies, i.e., bikes and their riders that are just for fun, not correct in the purist sense. We can spot ‘em right away. That makes it fun.
That “shot” of Shia on the bike was way cool!
Way to go, Basem, for keeping it real for us!
Thanks. Ride Safe! GOD Bless!
Movie was great. I’m a purist, so I was a little disappointed when I saw the front disc brake, along with the handlebar resevoir, belt drive and big heads. I kept looking for even more clues to wrong year stuff. Sometimes it’s a pain being so detail oriented.