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  Burt Rutan. Burt Munro. Burt Reynolds. Guys named “Burt” like to go fast.

I just saw The World's Fastest Indian [1] (the motocycle [2], not a Native
American or one who lives on the India sub-continent). A nice sweet story
about New Zealand's Burt Munro [3] (Anthony Hopkins [4]) and his quest to run
his 1920 Indian across Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats [5].

Also on the DVD (Digital Video Disc) was director Roger Donaldson's [6]
documentary Burt Munro: Offerings to the God of Speed [7], which was nice to
see how close Anthony Hopkins got to the character of Burt Munro—very darn
close.

[1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0412080/
[2] http://www.indianmotorcycle.com/
[3] http://www.indianmotorbikes.com/features/munro/munro.htm
[4] http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000164/
[5] http://www.scta-bni.org/
[6] http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002044/
[7] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0877328/

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