Icicles hanhing inside the shop
– You get to warm up by work, he says spending 12 hour days at the junk yard.
Young Rahkonen didn’t listen to the other laid-off, was not listening to the municipality people, economy people or other pundits.
– I borrowed 20 bucks from mother to register a firm and started in a corner of the disused foundry, he says.
There were at the same time also a car shop and a custom bike store.
Jarmo points
Today, 30 years later, we go through endless space. Jarmo pointing and telling.
-In that corner I started, over there were the motorcycle company, behind that wall I expanded and later I bought the motorcycle gang place.
-Now We build out a floor and in the future I will...
He bought the entire industrial house!!
- 60.000 honking square feet paid and done
Today he scraps 2,500 cars per year, presses and send to recycling, has six salvors that pick up cars in Uppsala/Stockholm area, buys company cars in clusters, importing, driving parts sales and collects the Yanks with Jarmo style, i.e. burnt paint and storytelling patina.
His energy and drive have been caught up by newspapers and television. In the TV show Erik and Mackan series Jarmo shows how to break in and start a car in seconds and demolishing a family caravan weekend in one minute.
Hands over
Jarmo Rahkonen have created his own economic success from zero but has also