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In reality, Munro's record-breaking run at Bonneville came after several separate visits to the US, beginning in 1956.

Munro was never known to actually urinate on his lemon tree film director Roger Donaldson added that detail as a tribute to his own father, who did. However, these records are only implied in the film. The real Munro had set numerous speed records in New Zealand during the late 1930s through the early 1970s. The real Munro had an older brother who was killed when a tree fell on him. The Munro portrayed in the film recalls the death of a twin brother named Ernie, who died when a tree fell on him. While the couple had four children together, no mention is made of children in the film but it is implied that he was married, and either estranged or divorced. The real Burt Munro married Florence Beryl Martyn on 6 August 1925 they divorced in 1950–51.

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A house has been built on the plot since the film was released.Ī replica of Munro's Indian used in the movie

The location used for Burt Munro's home and workshop in New Zealand took place on an empty section on Lithgow Street in Invercargill, this section was used as the headquarters for the notorious Black Power gang during the 1990s until the house burnt down in 1998.

These were on display at the Southland Museum and Art Gallery. Many of the props used for filming were actually owned by Munro, including all the exploded pistons and the piston mould that Hopkins uses for a scene in the film. In interviews, Hopkins stated that Munro was one of the easiest roles that he has ever played in his career simply because Munro's view on life was not all that different from his own.

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Arranging the financing for a full feature film was much more difficult, but a key Japanese investor, and Donaldson and Hannam's own money allowed the film to be made.

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In a show of sportsmanship, however, various competitors and fans in the Bonneville series intervene on his behalf, and he is eventually allowed to make a timed run. He finally arrives at the Bonneville Salt Flats, only to be blocked by race officials for not registering his motorcycle for competition in advance, and not having the mandated safety equipment. Burt declines the offer, however, and shortly afterwards begins his long trip to Utah.Īlong the way, Burt meets numerous helpful people, including highway police, a Native American who aids him when his trailer fails, a woman named Ada who allows him to repair his trailer in her garage and briefly becomes his lover, and an Air Force pilot who is on leave from military service in Vietnam. The car salesman allows Burt to use his workshop and junkyard to build a trailer, and later offers him a job after Burt fine-tunes a number of the cars on the lot. He wins over the motel clerk, a transvestite named Tina, who assists him in clearing customs and helps him in buying a car. It is his blunt but gregarious nature which overcomes each hurdle. Burt ignores this advice, and is given medication.īurt is finally able to save enough to travel by cargo ship to Los Angeles, working his passage as the cook, but when he arrives, he experiences bureaucracy, skepticism, and the indifference of big city people. An ambulance takes him to hospital and he is told he has angina, and is advised to take it easy and not to ride his motorcycle. However, while modifying his motorcycle, Burt suffers a heart attack. Burt, however, has a long-time dream to travel to the US and test his motorbike's capabilities at the Bonneville Speedway. However, that recognition is contrasted by his exasperated next-door neighbours, some of whom are fed up with his un-neighbourly habits such as revving his motorbike early in the morning, urinating on his lemon tree, and not mowing his grass. In 1967, Burt Munro is a sort of folk hero in his home town of Invercargill, New Zealand, known for his friendly easy-going personality, for having the fastest motorcycle in New Zealand and Australia, and for being featured in Popular Mechanics magazine. 5 Hopkins' portrayal of a New Zealander.