Burt Munro’s a bit of a favourite New Zealander of mine. Not really recognised too heavily as one of our great achievers, as most motorsport types rarely are (you’re meant to play a barbaric form of grab-ass to be ‘cool’ here, thus, rugby union ‘stars’ are, sadly, our children’s heros).Without typing a long winded history about his life and achievements, and his total dedication to a life of speed, you can read all about that in a couple of autobiography writings about him, or for a slightly less accurate picture, but easier and still very inspiring, a recent movie starring Anthony Hopkins: The World’s Fastest Indian, gives a pretty reasonable outline of his epic life.
Anyways, the man’s a legend, and if you haven’t read up on him or seen the movie at the very least, you should.
Afterwards, as seen here you can purchase a pretty cool piece of New Zealand’s motorsport history.
Awesome.
Although I have to say that I’m a bit ashamed that I didn’t post this. Being I’m from and live in Burt’s home town of Invercargill.
Perhaps I should rock down to E Hayes and take some photos of the various stuff on display from his past there.
Actual pictures up close would be cool.there’s not alot out there with any real substance
Will get onto it this weekend, all going well.