Southland motorcycling legend Burt Munro is now a life member of the Southland Motorcycle Club (SMCC), albeit posthumously, and has also been nominated tfor Motorcycling New Zealand's (MNZ) Hall of Fame.
SMCC committee member Stephen Winteringham said he was surprised when he discovered Munro was not a life member so he nominated him.
The club officially made Munro a life member on April 12, and to honour this achievement a plaque would be made and mounted on the Burt Munro bronze statue on the Gala St Reserve at Queens Park, he said.
"Now, we are hoping he will make it to the MNZ Hall of Fame.''
A famous Kiwi, Munro set New Zealand land-speed records in the 1940s and '50s.
He was also an international legend.
On his first trip to the Bonneville salt flats, in the United States in 1962, aged 63, he set a world land-speed record of 178.98mph.
Munro travelled to the salt flats a further eight times and set two more world records.
He died in 1978.
Mr Winteringham is heading to Wellington this week to attend the two-yearly New Zealand Motorcycle awards and conference at Te Papa on May 20-22.
It will also celebrate 100 years of MNZ.
The club would learn at the conference whether Munro's life member nomination was successful, Mr Winteringham said.
"If we are, we will bring back the blue jacket which is awarded to life members and have it framed and hung in the clubrooms.''
As part of the conference, some of the top motorcycles in New Zealand and motorcycling paraphernalia will be on display at Te Papa.
Mr Winteringham is sending the motorcycle made as a movie prop for the 2005 Burt Munro movie The World's Fastest Indian, the streamliner replica usually displayed at E Hayes & Sons, and two trophies from the annual Burt Munro Challenge organised by the SMCC.
