Sad to hear of the passing of tuning legend Jan Odor who after learning his skills at Downton Engineering as a young refugee from Hungary in the late 50s formed Janspeed in Salisbury in 1962.
Jan O'dor - The Hungarian, who became a British legend. - "The story of Janspeed's founder".
"This documentary is dedicated to a significant and prominent Hungarian man, who is unworthy unknown for the Hungarians - Jan O'dor - who's life story is starting in the times of the 1956 revolution in Hungary, with a great escape, lots of luck, plenty of learns, strong willingness to do, humanee, and humblessness for his family and the motorsports. The story takes us from the village of Lovasberény (65 km-s from Budapest) across Budapest to Salisbury, UK, when Jan started his professional career, mocking up, and tuning classic Minis since 1959. Later on, at the 80th of the last century he reached the top, as the owner of Britain's one of the biggest car tuning and motorsport firm. And after the top, he experienced the painful deep as well, after his son passed away in 1995. He turned his back to motorsports, and settled down in the sunny Portugal, with his wife Anna, and enjoyed the life of a retired couple, loving to play golf, until they accepted the invitation of Mini Club Hungary, and arrived to Budapest in 2018 to tell his story which this film were made of."
The documentary is made with the support of the members of Mini Club Hungary by Attila Damokos, Máté Hercsel, Gyárfás Oláh, Dorottya Molnár and Gabor Varga Gojo in 2020.
