Burt Munro

Residence 1

📍Edendale, Southland 9893, New Zealand

“I grew up on the family farm at Edendale, out east of Invercargill in the deep south of New Zealand — about as far from the world's racetracks as a boy could be. My twin sister died at birth; I lived, and I lived for speed. I would ride the fastest horse we had flat across the paddocks, never mind my father's grumbling. When the first cars and motorcycles and aeroplanes started appearing, I ached for them. That Southland farm was quiet and hard and slow, and it filled me with a lifelong, stubborn hunger to go faster than anyone thought a man from nowhere ever could.”

Sources: Wikipedia: Burt Munro

Residence 2

📍Bainfield Road, Invercargill 9810, New Zealand

“I spent my life in a little shed in Invercargill, at the bottom of the world, with a 1920 Indian Scout motorcycle and an impossible idea. For decades I tinkered in that cramped workshop — casting my own parts, carving pistons, sleeping among the oil and the dreams — turning a humble road bike into a streamliner. The neighbours thought me mad. But from this ordinary southern town I took my old Indian to the Bonneville Salt Flats and set a land-speed record that still stands. You do not need money or a famous name. You need a shed, a stubborn heart, and somewhere quiet to dream impossible things.”

Sources: Wikipedia: Burt Munro