James stumbled across these, a streamlined Benz racecar

Thanks James! the source of the photos is http://www.flickr.com/photos/22154824@N05/3334256189/in/photostream/

New photos of Burt Munro and his first time at Bonneville have been found

above and below are the images that show Burt having just been given the sack of money that everybody donated to (love the comraderie of racers) that was a scene in World's Fastest Indian and the above moment was captured by another camera http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/01/they-passed-hat-for-burt-just-like.html

From http://www.jockeyjournal.com/?p=710 . The photos were taken by Jack Brady, and are in the Kellogg collection, and I came across them at http://chromjuwelen.tumblr.com/post/789278888/the-jockey-journal-blog-archive-the-passion-of

For all the other information and photos of Burt I've come across:

The beauty of the streamlined locomotive train

photo by Arkady Shaikhet 1939

The above is via: http://fantomatik75.blogspot.com/ and is a poor copy of the Metzger photo, for a better copy: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/12/beauty-of-curve.html

Full speed on the dry lake bed at El Mirage in the attempt to break the record for fastest in their class

For another perspective and a terrific gallery of the race cars see extremeJBA gallery http://extremejba.jbaracing.com/index.php/2010/05/21/scta-season-opener-at-el-mirage-dry-lake/#respond

A variety of cool looking stuff at El Mirage

Very plain fold out seats made into cool art by pinstriping and adding car emblems

A grease monkey, first depictive artwork I've seen of one