This what they used to do in Inverchargill?
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"The life story of New Zealander Burt Munro, who spent years building a 1920 Indian motorcycle -- a bike which helped him set the land-speed world record at Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats in 1967. The World's Fastest
Indian is a 2005 New Zealand biographical
film based on the Invercargill motorcyclist"
The bit where he burns through his best Sunday suit on the exhaust as the fire suit was to bulky?