(HRCCTas)
A very young John Goss and Holden FJ lost in his thoughts in a Symmons Plains paddock circa 1965/6…
Is he dreaming of his first Bathurst or AGP win or maybe Formula 1? Perhaps its a more prosaic and immediate musing- ‘Why doesn’t John Youl harvest the hay in this paddock so I can get my friggin’ car out!’
I’ve written a couple of articles about the only man to win both the Bathurst 1000 and Australian Grand Prix, so no point going over old ground. Click here; https://primotipo.com/2015/07/03/john-goss-bathurst-1000-and-australian-grand-prix-winner/ here; https://primotipo.com/2018/06/19/john-goss-tornado-ford-longford-1968/ and here; https://primotipo.com/2016/06/06/gossy/
The photograph below is a few years later, 1973 to be precise.
It shows Gossy in full-flight aboard his Ford Falcon GT351 Group C car at Old Pit Corner during the 5 March Symmons Australian Touring Car Championship round won by Allan Moffat in a Ford Falcon GTHO Ph 3 from Peter Brock’s Holden Torana GTR-XU1- John was third and blazing a trail in the early development of these cars. What an awesome thing it looked the first time I saw it during the January Sandown Tasman round a month or so earlier.
Both the Fords and new L34 V8 Toranas had problems early on without dry-sumps didn’t they?- the regs precluded them and more wheel/tyres on the Group C machines created greater grip than the Group E Series Production cars of the years before and therefore oil-surge problems. There were plenty of popped engines until the respective camps sorted the problem.
(D Cooper)
He won the Bathurst enduro together with Kevin Bartlett the following year in the same car. Click here; https://primotipo.com/2018/04/27/kbs-first-bathurst-100mph-lap/
The shot below is of the car at Hell Corner, Mount Panorama in 1973.
(unattributed)
Credits…
Historic Racing Car Club of Tasmania, D Cooper Collection
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