And, as it often happens in Hollywood movies and sometimes even in reality, he surprises everyone. Still, he gets a chance to show what he’s got. He brings his modified Indian on a homebuilt trailer behind a car and even organizers are not happy to see him. When he first meets other racers, he cannot comprehend how large and professional team is behind each one of them.
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Munro, who lives in the remote part of New Zealand, comes with his motorcycle to the big world full of bureaucracy. Burt’s trip to America is portrayed in an arresting way. At that time, Munro was 68 years old and his motorcycle 47. The most important one, the one that kept for decades, came in 1967. Here, one of the film’s historical inaccuracies occurs – in reality, Munro went to Bonneville several times and set not one, but two records in the one litre class. The film starts in the moment when Burt’s motorcycle is already considered to be the fastest in New Zealand and Australia, with Burt saving up the last money needed to go to Bonneville salt lakes in the USA, where he wants to take part in the famous Speed Week and break the speed record. Typical moment is in the beginning of the movie, when Burt pushes his motorcycle outside at dawn and proceeds to wake up all his neighbors by tuning his engine fitted with open exhaust. He only found more time to work on his motorcycle after World War II, when he also divorced his wife Florence and later even quit his job to be able to stay locked up in the garage with his motorcycle that he named “Munro Special”.Īnd that is also how the film depicts Munro – as a slightly oddball old tinkerer, who spends all time improving his motorcycle. In the end, the engine grew to 900 cc and the motorcycle reached 331 km/h during unofficial timed run. He even made his own pistons and flywheel! His Indian was originally 600 cc, with top speed of about 90 km/h. Even without professional help, he was able to design and manufacture lots of things. Munro spent his days at work and was always short on money, so he did most of the work himself, during the night.
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He also never let go of his beloved motorcycle, a 1920 Indian Scout that Munro strated to slowly modify and upgrade in 1926. Still, he didn’t give up racing and kept winning local races regularly.
Later, when the crisis came, he had to find a job as a motorcycle mechanic and salesman. Only at adult age, when his father sold their farm near Invercargill on New Zealand, did Munro took up speedway racing. In the beginning, he could only channel his love of speed by riding horses at the far where he was born. He was born on New Zealand in 1899, way before the car and motorcycle boom of the early 20 thcentury. Burt Munro really lived and even though he lacked both time and money, he still managed to set speed records. World’s Fastest Indian is a film about racing and about an extraordinary life story.
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If you like stories about people who won against all odds, you will love this one, because Burt Munro really won and the movie about his life is one of the best motoring films of all time.
It may seem that this film doesn’t belong into our series – it’s not about cars, after all – but it will surely stir the soul of any motoring enthusiast, especially one with passion for speed and a love for the underdog.
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