Jankel Tempest

antijam

antijam

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There's an article in the April issue of Classic & Sports Car magazine on the C4 based Jankel Tempest, one of the oddball creations produced by Robert Jankel, one time founder of Panther Westwinds. Basically he took a new C4 and replaced the body with a new glassfibre and Kevlar creation of his own design....

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Personally I'm not a great fan of the C4 profile but to me Jankel's mods did nothing to improve it.

Power was from the 'Vette's LT1, either standard or supercharged or alternatively a very heavily modified LT5. The torque of the latter - 608 lbf-ft - giving a sub 4 sec 0 to 60!

If it tickles your fancy of the approx 35 built there is, apparently, just one in the UK - that I don't think is for sale.
 
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Nick B

Nick B

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Just had my copy delivered, will be interested to read about the Jankel. TBH I've never heard of it before.
 
97BlackC5

97BlackC5

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Tom Falconer (Claremont Corvette) used to have one in his showroom in Snodland for a while, it was a burgundy colour. Must admit I always liked it. Something a bit different.
 
kentvette

kentvette

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When Jankel first produced his "take" on the C4 I had the sales brochures and various bits of paperwork, which I must have picked up at a "motor show" type event. I got in touch with the factory (which was in the south of England somewhere, I forget where now) and told them I was the Kent rep for CCCUk and that we'd be very interested in a factory tour, or at least a visit. They were completely un-responsive and, further articles I read where Jankel talked about the car, he completely failed to give any acknowledgement that it was in fact a Corvette underneath. A stranger to either Jankel or Corvette would have assumed he built the whole thing himself!
 
Nassau65

Nassau65

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I met him once, and found him to be a very nice chap. Very enthusiastic about the bones of his creation ie the Corvette C4 as we now call it. As with most creative people he was a bit full of himself, but a nice chap. Totally different to Reeves Callaway who wouldn’t give you the time of day.
 
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