The World's Fastest Indian
The story of New Zealander Burt Munro, who spent years rebuilding a 1920 Indian motorcycle, which helped him set the land speed world record at Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats in 1967. For twenty-five ye…
The World's Fastest Indian
The story of New Zealander Burt Munro, who spent years rebuilding a 1920 Indian motorcycle, which helped him set the land speed world record at Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats in 1967. For twenty-five years in Invercargill, New Zealand, Burt Munro (1899-1978) has been working on increasing the speed of his motorcycle, a 1920 Indian. He dreams of taking it to the Bonneville Salt Flats to see how fast it will go. By the early 1960s, heart disease threatens his life, so he mortgages his house and takes a boat to Los Angeles, buys an old car, builds a makeshift trailer, gets the Indian through customs, and heads for Utah. Along the way, the people he meets are charmed by his open, direct friendliness. If he makes it to Bonneville, will the old guy be allowed on the flats with makeshift tires, no brakes, and no parachute? And will the Indian actually respond? —<jhailey@hotmail.com> / edited by Hans Delbruck After a lifetime of perfecting his classic Indian motorcycle, Burt Munro (Hopkins) set off from the bottom of the world to test his bike at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. With all odds against him, he set a new speed record and captured the spirit of his times. Based on a true story, and directed by Roger Donaldson (Thirteen Days, No Way Out) Based on a true story, an elderly male from New Zealand travels to the USA to compete to break the land speed world record. Along the way, he meets multiple types of people and teaches them the values of living a good long life to the limit. —RECB3
The World's Fastest Indian
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The story of New Zealander Burt Munro, who spent years rebuilding a 1920 Indian motorcycle, which helped him set the land speed world record at Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats in 1967. For twenty-five years in Invercargill, New Zealand, Burt Munro (1899-1978) has been working on increasing the speed of his motorcycle, a 1920 Indian. He dreams of taking it to the Bonneville Salt Flats to see how fast it will go.
By the early 1960s, heart disease threatens his life, so he mortgages his house and takes a boat to Los Angeles, buys an old car, builds a makeshift trailer, gets the Indian through customs, and heads for Utah. Along the way, the people he meets are charmed by his open, direct friendliness. If he makes it to Bonneville, will the old guy be allowed on the flats with makeshift tires, no brakes, and no parachute? And will the Indian actually respond? —<jhailey@hotmail.com> / edited by Hans Delbruck After a lifetime of perfecting his classic Indian motorcycle, Burt Munro (Hopkins) set off from the bottom of the world to test his bike at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah.
With all odds against him, he set a new speed record and captured the spirit of his times. Based on a true story, and directed by Roger Donaldson (Thirteen Days, No Way Out) Based on a true story, an elderly male from New Zealand travels to the USA to compete to break the land speed world record. Along the way, he meets multiple types of people and teaches them the values of living a good long life to the limit.
—RECB3.