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in their showroom for Loved
the story on the John Goss Specials four weeks to get people (in AMC #78). It hit my letterbox and I was in looking at the slow right into it. selling hardtops.
Just one thing I picked up on. The story When waiting for states that the early JGSs had the vertical delivery he was walking rear-quarter repeater light and the later batch the beat on night shift had the horizontal version. This is not entirely and showed his partner correct; horizontal rear repeaters on later cars Shirley Costello the car. is indeed a trend but far from the rule. My JGS She loved the look and was one of the first in the initial batch and has went to Launceston and the horizontal rear repeater! I’ve seen many purchased a green one. other examples. When he bought it
I have spent a LOT of time tracking down home the windscreen hadn’t been sealed up the history of my JGS. In July 1975 four at the bottom. When it rained heavily the car Gosses came to Tassie for the release of the filled up with water and the driver’s seat was John Goss Special: two Emerald Green autos damaged. They replaced the driver’s seat with and two manual Apollo Blue coupes. Of those a white one from a Landau. This may be why four ‘Gosses’, three were purchased new by the driver’s seat has always sat lower in the Tasmanian police officers. car?!
Also, of those four Gosses, three of which Peter sold the car in 1977. He gave me are still in Tasmania, registered and in superb some photos of the car he took when he condition! I have my suspicions as to the purchased it. location of the fourth (green) coupe. Interestingly my Goss arrived at the
Peter, the original owner of my car was on dealership with an XY GT steering wheel – not beat patrol and called to attend Devonport uncommon for this to happen with GTs – and Ford workshop. The dealership had a with jellybean wheels. Can’t work out why it showroom in King Street, Devonport and a had these wheels fitted! workshop just out of town. Peter went in and There is one aspect of the JGS that neither dealt with a job and saw two Gosses there of your features on the Gosses mentioned being detailed for their release in three weeks and this is in relation to the stripes. The time. He purchased the blue one but was told first examples in the first run also featured he couldn’t collect it for about seven weeks. additional thin orange pin striping extensively There were three weeks until release and the across the car. This was deleted as the public wasn’t supposed to see them yet, then it production run continued due to the time was wanted by the dealership to be on display required and that being so thin it peeled off
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very easily.
The stripes also came in non reflective. There were three stripe kits produced by two different suppliers that differed slightly.