[Mg-t] Motorcycle help - The Fastest Indian

[Douglas Ormrod]

Also the book that goes with the film is excellent - the film is kind of
abridged - by necessity of course. He made many trips to the US and the
technical details in the book are interesting to chaps and chapesses
like us.

His name was actually Bert, but youse Amuricans don't have a lot of
Bert's and people mistook it for Burt - and he kind of liked it so took
it on.

Douglas
>From the land of the Worlds Fastest Indian

-----Original Message-----
From: mg-t-bounces at autox.team.net [mailto:mg-t-bounces at autox.team.net]
On Behalf Of Chip Old
Sent: Thursday, 8 April 2010 5:22 a.m.
To: MG-T
Subject: Re: [Mg-t] Motorcycle help - The Fastest Indian

On 4/7/10 7:37 AM, "peter-thiel at sbcglobal.net"
<peter-thiel at sbcglobal.net>
wrote:

> BTW, if you're looking it up, it is The World's Fastest Indian,
starring
> Anthony Hopkins.
> One of the best for repeated watchings!

Excellent movie. If you get it on DVD one of the extra features is "Burt
Munro - Offerings To The God Of Speed", a 1971 documentary about the
real
Burt Monro. He was best known in the US for the records he set at
Bonneville
with his Indian, but he also raced a highly modified Velocette MSS which
is
of more interest to me.

--
Chip Old
Cub Hill, Maryland, US
feold3 at mac.com
1948 M.G. TC TC6710
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