Bronze castings of his home made pistons and connecting rods; which were produced in a local foundry in Invercargill N.Z. These are both marked #3 of 25 sets made.

http://www.motohistory.net/news2008/news-oct08.html
http://cyrilhuzeblog.com/2010/08/22/burt-munros-indian-special-honored-at-pebble-beach-concours/

http://www.revistadelmotor.es/2018/03/02/baumemercier-indian-leyenda.html

Sir Anthony Hopkins did such a damn good performance as Burt... I hope he knows how much we've appreciated that movie

and by describing the amount of help that hot rodders gave Burt, I used the word a "bit" not to offend or minimize their help, but only to describe their assistance was not equal to all that Burt had accomplished to get his Indian Scout to Bonneville, not even half as much.

He'd worked on perfecting that motorcycle, and it's engine, tires, etc etc, for decades, and then worked his passage across the Pacific to travel from New Zealand to California...

so, the ratio of all Burt had done to get to the salt over decades, and the help he was given by hot rodders, has to be described somehow, and the term that I decided was both vague, and somewhat in the right neighborhood of the amount of help he was given... can possibly be something else I haven't thought of yet, but for now the term "a bit" ought to be all right. After all, when you think of asking for some pie, and you say to the person cutting you a piece that you'd like "a bit of that pie" you get about the right amount - in my estimation, and I'll guess it's a good representation of a graph, a pie chart, and might be about less than a 1/4, but more than an 1/8th.

I think that might be a fair approximation of the ratio of what Burt did, and what his new made friends did, to get him on the salt. Am I wrong? Or close enough for a post on my blog? This ain't Hot Rod magazine... and I'm not a pro. I'm just a car guy who's out to share cool stuff with wheels, and respect the extraordinary accomplishments of the legends like Burt. 

https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/1963-bonneville-speed-week-photos.1120368/

http://cncenginedynamics.tumblr.com/

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=435771806887278&set=gm.1442709719208973&type=3&permPage=1&ifg=1

http://www.landracing.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=213

http://www.landracing.com/forum/index.php/topic,5202.msg114390.html#msg114390

https://www.facebook.com/groups/stiffspeed/permalink/1341822972630982/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1655341931388663/photos/

Neil Birss, as a young journalist in Invercargill with The Southland Daily News and The Southland Times, had taken his typewriter to the garage of Burt Munro

The garage that served as Munro's Invercargill home, during a series of interviews over two months, was the place where Burt told his stories his way.

The interview sessions were never completed when Burt departed for another trip to Bonneville and Birss moved north.

Of course both men had intended to resume the process, but they never got back together.

With a young family and part-time study to contend with, the journalist found his unfinished project slipping from next month to next year to one-of-these-days.

The interviews, all typed out as Munro had spoken, in the first person, were by no means all familiar from the films and books issued in the interim.

They particularly illuminated his early years in the south; visits to Australia in the 1920s and 1950s; details of his trips to not just the US but Mexico, and his adventures with cars and cops and assorted officialdom.

At times Birss found it necessary to augment Munro's accounts with insertions of his own, for correctives reasons or context. Sometimes the combined accounts are collectively better.

Describing a crash at the Invercargill Teretonga circuit in 1959, Munro told of stepping, ["very neatly" he was later assured] off his Velocette after going off the concrete and into a fast speed wobble, doing about 117kmh.

"The moment I jumped, the bike straightened up. It was still full throttle. Nobody saw where it went. They were too busy watching me skidding, rolling, bouncing. Someone reckoned I went 15 feet [4.6m] high in one bounce.

"My mate went to take me to the morgue, then saw me get up on my knees. They took me to the hospital. My clothing, T-shirt, gloves, everything, was torn to shreds.The waistband of my trousers was about all I had left."

Still, "my bash hat never hit the ground".

Yes, well, Birss felt compelled to remind readers of parallel eyewitness accounts, published by Begg, that the bike had leapt 9 metres and the rescuers found Munro, his pudding-basin helmet very much split, lying bloodied and unconscious.

Only after a time did he come around enough to claim: "I beat you buggers."

Collared in the US at Edwards Air Force Base, where he had been hoping for a purely-tourist photo of the glamorous X-15 rocket plane he went from the subject of stern and deeply suspicious interrogation to well-indulged guest, because a lieutenant-colonel had remembered reading about his "motorsickle" in Popular Mechanics.

Other times, sheer luck featured. In one of his forays into Mexico, without a visa, he was pulled over by a cop who examined his licence, issued by the Southland County Council.

Assuming this was the authority governing the Greater Los Angeles area, also known as Southland, the officer let him go.

Munro later learned from his American friends that the confusion mattered. US citizens had the backup of diplomatic representation in Mexico. New Zealanders did not.

Read the book made from the lost interviews, the most thorough and lengthy there ever were of Burt's stories, history, and humor at https://www.amazon.com/Burt-Munro-Interviews-Neill-Birss-ebook/dp/B01FL33B4C
or from Target https://www.target.com/p/burt-munro-the-lost-interviews-paperback-neill-birss/-/A-51499766
who both charge around 18 dollars USD, but you can buy it for 11 USD if you go to https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/burt-munro-the-lost-interviews

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1655341931388663/photos/
https://www.stuff.co.nz/motoring/81594219/Saved-from-a-skip-the-lost-Burt-Munro-interviews

thanks Steve!
https://silodrome.com/burt/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/stiffspeed/permalink/1307913322688614/

Pierce Indian was on the corner of Fairview and San Gabriel avenues, next to that was Pierce's home, where Munro lived from at least 1965-67.

Way back in their youth, Sam Pierce and Rollie Free worked for the same Indian dealership agent in Kansas City

Pierce combed the U.S. for parts. He bought out the stocks of numerous dealers who once sold and serviced the great red machines.

Burt Munro : The Lost Interviews 

and during a 2 year round the world ride, an adventurer named Carlos Caggiani happened through Los Angeles,

and Sam gave him a free refurbish to see him safely and reliably the rest of the way.

From 1964 to 1966, Carlos Caggiani travelled to 26 countries on a 1947 Indian Chief motorcycle with hardly a penny to his name. At 24 years of age, he embarked on the adventure of a lifetime. He spent time with everyone from poor natives in the Andes mountains, to rich families in the United States. He crossed rivers without bridges, suffered famine, intense heat and cold, guided his motorcycle through rain and snow storms, rode on dirt and cobblestone roads, was chased by the FBI, was shot at in Bolivia during a revolutionary war, and had a serious accident due to a mechanical failure in Panama that left him hospitalized for 17 days. Now there is a book about it
 https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/145378537X?ie=UTF8&tag=huellyhoriz-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=145378537X

He owned several British motorcycle dealerships, selling Triumph, Ariel, Norton and Sunbeam motorcycles. He also had an Indian dealership for a short time, but despite his love of the brand, he sold it to his friend Ed Kretz (winner of the first Daytona 200 in 1937).

 His last enterprise was American Indian, where he assembled his own “Super Scouts” from NOS parts, adding a bit of his own flair with special body work and performance upgrades. He sold American Indian in 1971.

Dan Reese, a former employee of Sammy’s who now runs Indian Motorcycles of West Point, Calif

In his last years Sammy was the curator of Steve McQueen’s extensive motorcycle collection. He died March 27, 1982, shortly after McQueen died from cancer.

http://barnfinds.com/worlds-fastest-indian/
https://www.indian-motorcycles.com/tag/sam-pierce/
http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/article/ZZ/20060825/NEWS/608259861
https://www.hemmings.com/blog/2017/04/07/as-burt-munros-worlds-fastest-indian-record-turns-50-it-remains-unbroken/
http://www.landracing.com/forum/index.php?action=printpage;topic=8502.0

http://photobucket.com/gallery/user/GreasySideUp/media/bWVkaWFJZDoxNDY2NjE4MDU=/?ref=

Sammy Pierce was perhaps the greatest enthusiast of Indian motorcycles. After the Springfield, Mass., factory closed in 1953, “Mr. Indian” kept the flame alive. And thanks to his devotion to the brand during the Fifties and Sixties, he inspired well-known restorers like Bob Stark and Micah McCloskey to keep the flame burning. And along the way, he designed his own motorcycle – the P-61 American Rocket.

The original record setting engine #50R627 is in another Indian Scout frame Burt bought many moons back,which he modified highly for speed runs,here in Invercargill NZ. So…there is really Two Burt Munro Specials.

"For a while the Pierces displayed the World’s Fastest Indian in their showroom, then relegated it to the warehouse, and ultimately to the elements outside, where the decades of Munro’s loving modifications slowly deteriorated into the ground. Enthusiast Gordy Clark purchased the Indian from the Pierces, but just put it into storage.

Remember, at this time Munro’s motorcycle was just a beat-up old racer, not very interesting to even the most serious motorcycle collectors. This was before the modern antique bike craze really took off. It was a curiosity, nothing more. Enter Dean Hensley. Dean, Tom Hensley’s older brother, was a rising motorcycle racing star.

“He had known about the Indian for years,” Tom said, referring to the historic bike that had been stored in a neglected state among Gordy Clark’s 300-bike collection. Dean purchased the bike in 1986, soon after selling the antique mirror company. He had gone to an auction, maybe it was at Hershey, and saw that old streamliners were beginning to sell for substantial money,” Tom said. “That’s when he decided to try and buy the old Burt Munro bike.” After the purchase, Munro’s Indian sat around for a few years as Dean gathered enough information and parts to begin restoration. Since the bike sat outside for years, four frame tubes filled with water and rusted out.”

The left side of the body hung on my garage wall for 20 years,” said brother Tom. “The fiberglass had settled, so getting it fitting back together was like fixing Marty Feldman’s eyes. We had to mount it to a board, let it sit in the sun, and every day turn the set screws one-quarter turn to get the body to move back into place.” Dean brought his now-restored Indian streamliner to a Davenport, Iowa, swap meet and decided to start the bike after it hadn’t run in 20 years. They had built an Indy-type starter that mounted on the countershaft, and Dean could operate it with hand controls.

In the spring of 2011, Tom received a phone call from the organizers of the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance. They said if he could prepare the streamliner to running condition, he could enter it in the prestigious show. “We were already in the process of getting the bike running with new rods and pistons when Pebble Beach called,” he said. “They said it had to be in running condition in order to come to the show, so we built brand-new cylinders from scratch and had the bodywork fitted exactly the way Munro had it mounted when he ran for the record in 1967.”

http://barnfinds.com/worlds-fastest-indian/
https://www.indian-motorcycles.com/tag/sam-pierce/
http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/article/ZZ/20060825/NEWS/608259861
https://www.hemmings.com/blog/2017/04/07/as-burt-munros-worlds-fastest-indian-record-turns-50-it-remains-unbroken/
http://www.landracing.com/forum/index.php?action=printpage;topic=8502.0

Burt first visited Bonneville in 1957.

He wouldn’t return until 1962, bootstrapping his way across the Pacific as a cook on a cargo ship and flat towing the Indian behind a $90 Nash station wagon from Long Beach to Bonneville.

 That year, he pushed the streamlined Indian to a record of 179 MPH in the 850cc class, and due in no small part to the encouragement he received from fellow racers, he continued to return to Bonneville throughout the Sixties.

In 1967, the last year he would race at Bonneville, Munro had enlarged the Indian’s V-twin to 950cc and entered it in Class S-A 1,000cc.

His top speed of 191 MPH and his average speed of 183.586 MPH at that year’s Bonneville Speed Week not only set the class record, but also established Munro’s then-47-year-old bike as the fastest Indian motorcycle.

That record went on to stand until 2014 when Munro’s son John convinced the American Motorcycle Association to correct a calculation error, bumping Munro’s record to 184.087 MPH.

https://www.hemmings.com/blog/2017/04/07/as-burt-munros-worlds-fastest-indian-record-turns-50-it-remains-unbroken/

For lots of coverage of all things about Burt Munro, his garage, his trailer, bikes, etc: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/search/label/Burt%20Munro

Including the series of photos that Jack Brady took in 1957 (the above is one example) 

“In ’64, I went to the NHRA Nationals as the announcer for Hurst Performance Records. Dick Blake of Fleetwood Records contacted Jack Duffy, the PR guy for Hurst Performance, and told him that recordings of the races would be good for the sport. I got the call from Hurst, and the first event I did was the Bonneville National Speed Trials the week before the NHRA Nationals. The first guy I interviewed at Bonneville was Burt Munro, the rider of the World’s Fastest Indian motorcycle.

“We took him to dinner, and we used a Nagra recorder, state of the art, 3/8-inch-wide tape, stereo microphones. Dinner took three hours, and the exchange was marvelous. Why that record was never published, I don’t know."

(wouldn't that recording be something you'd love to listen to?!)

read the entire article about his amazing career interviewing all the greats of drag racing at http://www.hotrod.com/articles/jon-thunderlungs-lundberg-the-voice-of-drag-racing/