If this story turns out to be true, you can say you heard it first here.
Last week at work one of my mates come to me and made mention that one of our apprentices had this engine worth a sh1tload of $$$$ genuine from a John Goss Special (note: I'm getting this info a good bloke, but a younger type Holden fan and we're talking old Fords here and didn't know of John Goss until I educated him on the guy and the cars a few months ago.) The $$$$ he was talking was absolute B.S. and I pretty much wrote the story off along with the rest of the nonsense that gets sprouted about cars an stuff from time to time.
Today, the story is still doing the rounds at work but the $$$$ are like 5 times higher than the first BS amount last week, so I'm thinking the yarn has snowballed and shaking my head at how many gullable people are about. I said to others in the smoko room you could by a V8 supercar engine from the Stone Bros for less than this thing and its only a Goss engine.
But this story wasn't going away, different people heard different things etc.... so I confront this guy, a young adult apprentice, he always seemed like an alright bloke and asked him straight.
Now, I don't wish to reveal everything right now incase I may jepordise something, but I will say that the engine in question isnt a Goss but a rather unique piece of Australian Motorsport history.
The story goes, he goes to buy a '77 XC ute with V8 sitting under a tree in a paddock around Brisbane I think. The bloke asks for $1200.00 if it. It hasent fired a shot for 6-8 years and been under the tree for as long.
Young lad takes it away, later goes to buy some engine parts to get it going, and the Ford parts guy as usual needs the engine number to find stuff. He types in the number and thats when significant history of this engine started to unfold.
Stay tuned here and I'll tell more soon, or keep watching Ch9 as he was being interviewed about this thisafternoon after work.
Last week at work one of my mates come to me and made mention that one of our apprentices had this engine worth a sh1tload of $$$$ genuine from a John Goss Special (note: I'm getting this info a good bloke, but a younger type Holden fan and we're talking old Fords here and didn't know of John Goss until I educated him on the guy and the cars a few months ago.) The $$$$ he was talking was absolute B.S. and I pretty much wrote the story off along with the rest of the nonsense that gets sprouted about cars an stuff from time to time.
Today, the story is still doing the rounds at work but the $$$$ are like 5 times higher than the first BS amount last week, so I'm thinking the yarn has snowballed and shaking my head at how many gullable people are about. I said to others in the smoko room you could by a V8 supercar engine from the Stone Bros for less than this thing and its only a Goss engine.
But this story wasn't going away, different people heard different things etc.... so I confront this guy, a young adult apprentice, he always seemed like an alright bloke and asked him straight.
Now, I don't wish to reveal everything right now incase I may jepordise something, but I will say that the engine in question isnt a Goss but a rather unique piece of Australian Motorsport history.
The story goes, he goes to buy a '77 XC ute with V8 sitting under a tree in a paddock around Brisbane I think. The bloke asks for $1200.00 if it. It hasent fired a shot for 6-8 years and been under the tree for as long.
Young lad takes it away, later goes to buy some engine parts to get it going, and the Ford parts guy as usual needs the engine number to find stuff. He types in the number and thats when significant history of this engine started to unfold.
Stay tuned here and I'll tell more soon, or keep watching Ch9 as he was being interviewed about this thisafternoon after work.