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RE: Burt's Record Listing in the RUle Book..

To: "Benn" <karhu@california.com>, <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Subject: RE: Burt's Record Listing in the RUle Book..
From: "Tom Bryant" <saltracer@awwwsome.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 12:09:20 -0800
> I believe his name was Herbert, but by the time his name got Yanked a
> bit, it became Burt with a u.  And, yep, no e on Munro.
> And Begg's book "Burt Munro Indian Legend of Speed" has a sequence of
> photos with Burt giving "the 'Munro' treatment" to the two ladies who
> collected the cash ($350) for him in '62.
> Benn

Burt was officially Herbert James Munro.


Tom, Redding CA - #216 D/FCC




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