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JC T ONE wrote: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.
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.
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
Well just as Pete have found out with his JanSpeed Unipower / showcar, the first things one find of a cars story, isnt always the right version.
Somtimes a "hunch" gets confirmed later on, and more intersting facts turn up.
Today was THAT day
= I recived a Email from mr JanSpeed aka "the secret millionare"
The mail confirmed the story about him spotting the engine on a pedistal.
But it was not at the Earls Court Motor Show, as I previusly have heard.
It turned out that he was in Salibury to have a Range Rover extended.
JanSpeed did many of these, and were "the place" to go for such conversions.
While there he spotted the JanSpeed A series show engine, with its turbo, on its special made pedistal/frame,
and asked about buying it for the Wood & Pickett back home in Denmark.
They agreed to selling it, and he had the car send over for the conversion to be carried out.
Mr JanSpeed lived in England at this time, so my car spend a 3 months in UK after it left JanSpeed,s workshop in Salisbury, before returning to Denmark.
After its return to Denmark, he loaned the car to a executive from his movie company.
This must have been the time some of the people I have spoken with spotted it around the city of Copenhagen, getting more & more sorry to look at.
Some have told me they saw it parked in the gutter, covered with snow & salt all through the winter.
I have now come "full circle" = established contact & communicated with all my cars previus owners.
Only had the car since winter 1999/2000
but finally made it.
Jens Christian
Volvo had both in their accessorie range, and the revcounter was standard in the Volvo 123 GT. 
