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A replica of the 1920 Indian (with half the exterior removed to show detail) that Burt Munro used to set his record in 1967. Munro's Indian Scout was an early model, the 627th Scout to leave the American factory. [7] The bike had an original top speed of 55 mph (89 km/h), [2] but this did not satisfy Munro, so in 1926 he began to modify the bike.
The World's Fastest Indian is a 2005 New Zealand biographical sports drama film based on the story of New Zealand speed bike racer Burt Munro and his highly modified 1920 Indian Scout motorcycle. [1] Munro set numerous land speed records for motorcycles with engines less than 1,000 cc at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah in the late 1950s and ...
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Numerous land speed records in various vehicle categories and classes have been set on the Bonneville speed way. In 1960, Mickey Thompson became the first American to break the 400 miles per hour (640 km/h) barrier, hitting 406.60 miles per hour (654.36 km/h) and surpassing John Cobb's 1947 one-way Land speed record of 403 miles per hour (649 ...
Indian Motorcycle Showcases New Engine with Custom-Built "Spirit of Munro" Streamliner One-of-a-Kind Vehicle Powered by All-New Thunder Stroke 111 Engine Pays Tribute to Burt Munro's 'Munro ...
Burt Munro's grandson, Rob Henderson, unveiled the Project '64 Mini at a fundraising event on September 10, 2011. [1] Munro, also from New Zealand, broke the land speed record with a 47-year-old Scout Indian motorcycle in 1967.
Replica of Burt Munro's 1920 Indian Scout as modified for his record attempts in 1962. Between 1962 and 1967, New Zealander Burt Munro used a modified 1920 Indian Scout to set flying mile land speed records at the Bonneville Salt Flats. His records were: [29] 20 August 1962: 54 cu in (880 cc) class record of 178.971 mph (288.026 km/h).
According to Motorcycle_land_speed_record, the record of 211 MPH was set in 1956, which seems to predate any of the records Munro was claimed to have set that were over 200, so I'm real confused. -- Markseger ( talk ) 11:52, 4 April 2010 (UTC) Markseger [ reply ]