Hi all,
as you saw in my post last week, have I tried once more to contact "mr JanSpeed"
My cars second owner = the guy who send her to England for the turbo conversion.
The newspaper article I saw, had his Daughter listed as "owner" of the 2 villas, thats up for sale.
So after a few days, I tried typing her name into the search bar on my computer.
That was IT = "Pandoras box" opened, but unfortunally not with good news.
I now found out just how shy a person he is.
No one have seen him in decades, only "hearsay" about him being spottet in Cannes / Nice or London from time to time.
His nickname in the financiel world is "The secret millionaire" the only picture of him is more than 40 years old.
It was taken in the early 70ies, when he was a young doctor, working as a cancer researcher, on the Danish National Hospital in Copenhagen.
Soon after this he startet on buisness ventures, and became a millionaire for the first time.
A bad (unlucky) decision resultet in him loosing all his money.
Some years later he was back, and not long after, did he do a 70 million kroners deal, so once again he was a millionaire.
I think this was when he had the car send to UK, for the turbo conversion.
Later on the Danish bank he did buisness with went bankrupt, and he lost all his money again.
Then it was quiet for some years, but after the millenium, he was back.
Again as a investor in big office & apartment buildings.
But his latest idea, a big new office & hotel domecil in Copenhagen, for 500 million kroner was stopped in 2008 -
by the world wide financial crices, when Finnish Eik bank pulled the plug, and left Denmark.
He is now suing the bank, for an unknown sum.
He will leave Denmark for good, when the 2 villas is sold.
Today I made a new attempt to contact him, I found the journalist who had spoken with him,
and ask if he would foreward a letter from me, and see if I can get him to contact me ?
Not much hope
but if I dont try = I will keep thinking "what if" ?
That was the story of "mr JanSpeed" aka "The secret millionaire"
pure anorak stuff, but its a part of how/why my car came about, so I wanted to share it with you guys.
I hope (atleast some of you) can put yourself in my place, and see how frustrating it is.
Jens Christian
PS, one of the villas is less than 3 miles from where I live .
part of this tekst, is translated from an article by Johan Winther / Berlingske media.
