Janspeed/Dutch group 4/5 240z race car

Does anyone have any info or memories of the 240z that was racing in the european sports car champ in 1974/5/6. It was driven by Han Tjan and competed mainly at zandvoort as far as I know. I believe that it started life being owned and driven by a datsun garage dealership owner by the name of Rob Jansen until 1974. It was sponsored by a pirate radio station Radio Noordsea. After 1976 the car came back to the UK and did a few races over here with various guest drivers, Alec Poole? Rex Greenslade to name a couple until it was sold. Any info, race results, or pics would be very useful and gratefully received. Cheers ben

Here's some info about the team (in Dutch and German):
http://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/DATABASES/RNI/rni13.shtml
http://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/DATABASES/RNI/rnide13.shtml

Jansen took part in a GT race at Estoril:
http://wspr-racing.com/wspr/results/megt/megt1972.html

Hi Ben,

Dutch results up to 1975 are on my site: http://homepage.mac.com/frank_de_jong/Pages/NTK.html
The car competed a few times in 1972 in the sportscar races, this is covered in the text section of the 1972 races.
There's a 1974 picture on the site as well.

Is this the same chassis that was at Gurston Down Hillclimb on Sunday?

Hi Ben,

I found some pics in my archive.
Enjoy!!!!!!

http://img66.imageshack.us/img66/5148/autovisie20april1973presentationdatsunradionoordzeeraao7.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://img64.imageshack.us/img64/47/zandvoort19762ji3.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://img64.imageshack.us/img64/5075/hantjandatsun240zty6.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

I have a lot more pics, if you prefer these I can send it to your E-mail adress.
Plaese let me known.

Best regards,

Henk A. Hazelaar
The Netherlands

Is this the same chassis that was at Gurston Down Hillclimb on Sunday?
yes it is the same car but without the rear wing( regs do not allow it in mod prod) and now running a 3.1 straight 6 built at the Pride workshops

Hi Ben,

I found some pics in my archive.
Enjoy!!!!!!

I have a lot more pics, if you prefer these I can send it to your E-mail adress.
Plaese let me known.

Best regards,

Henk A. Hazelaar
The Netherlands
Thanks for those pics. I have the middle one already but would love to see any others that you may have.
I have the car and am trying to piece together the history as much as I can. Norman at Janspeed has given me as much help as he can remember and I did meet Han Tjan in holland in 2000 and he was helpful but now I am trying to find documented history.
If you could email any other pics I would be very grateful ben240z@aol.com
cheers for all the help and replies ben

Ben, I had a brief chat to you before the ceremony on Sunday :)

hi zac sorry i had to dash off. when you are next down to gurston come and say hi. I like the pics you have on the photobucket. hope you had a good day cheers ben

Hi Ben,

Dutch results up to 1975 are on my site: http://homepage.mac.com/frank_de_jong/Pages/NTK.html
The car competed a few times in 1972 in the sportscar races, this is covered in the text section of the 1972 races.
There's a 1974 picture on the site as well.

hi frank thanks for the info. I was aware of your site and have spent much time looking through it. It is very useful.
Do you know who was looking after the car, mechanical preperation etc before janspeed got involved with it. And if so are any of the mechanics still about?
I have read somewhere that rob jenssen had 4 or 5 240z works rally shells, is the race car that he ran one of those shells or did he use them all for rallying?

Cheers ben

The right spelling is Rob Janssen; as far as I know there were two 240Z's in 1973 in the Netherlands (for him and Hans Ernst) of which at least 1 was an ex-safari car.
Rob prepared the cars himself, he had a tuning company in Zandvoort.
Whether one of those two cars became the 1974-5 Janspeed car is possible, but I'm not sure.