Revealing mistake: The movie is set in 1962, the year of Burt's first trip to Bonneville, yet a U-Haul trailer with a present-day paint scheme is shown at the salt flats.
World's Fastest Indian (2005)
1 revealing mistake - chronological order
Directed by: Roger Donaldson
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Diane Ladd, Aaron Murphy, Iain Rea, Tessa Mitchell
Factual error: At the beginning of the pie cart scene, street signs are visible in the background. They are a style that was introduced around 30 years after the time the film is set.
Burt Munro: So what are you doing in Vietnam?
Rusty: Umm, I'm involved in Operation Ranch Hand.
Burt Munro: What's that? Farming or something?
Rusty: Ah no, not exactly. We ah... we just started this program... we are spraying the jungle from the air with herbicides, so the enemy the Vietcong don't have any place to hide. Right... Agent Orange, we call this stuff.
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