Goss TC?????

[Kevaclone]

Looking for info or anyone that remembers or maybe seen one

the story
My very first road car was a 73 TC Cortina
it had a 2V head 250 six and top loader gearbox(reverse far left and back... great for reverse to 1st skids)
all black interior, rectangular base radio antenna, small left and right exterior mirrors and a dogey yellow paint respray with remnants of twin side stripes from the nose and up around the "C" pllars(ala starsky n hutch but thinner and twins)

Now at the time I had no idea that any of that was out of the ordinary and thrashed the guts out of the thing
when I bought it it was fitted with really gay yellow XLE type hub caps on the 6x13 steel rims to which someone had fitted crossply tyres(in 1982 WTF???) these tyres were quite bad but made for great fun as they would light up in 3rd gear going up the D'agiular range but I later put some 195/70/13 radials on it

So I thrashed it, found it's top speed down the straight out of caloundra was 105mph at just under 5000rpm as it ran out of cam(it would pull hard to 105 then just stop) I and ended up having a bit of a lose on our driveway one night in the rain at something like 5mph and hit the side of a shed over the rear wheel arch and it sorta went down hill from there so I traded it in on a 75 TD wagon

4 years later I had a job picking up old papers and magazines for recycling and I ended up with some "Wheels" and other Aust car mags from the early 70s. What stood out as I flicked though the pages was an ad from John Goss Motors and some special fords, The ad had John Goss standing at the rear and parked on each side were XA Falcon sedan and coupe(these had a single side stripe from the front to the back and up over the boot and the GT/GS guard flutes) and across the front was a TC Cortina sedan, you guessed it, same stripes along the side up over the "C" pillar.... Bugga

As for my old car, it was in sad shape a probably ended up at a wreckers yard and bits sold for a lot more than the $500 I got for it as a trade in

I have been told by people who supposedly know that John Goss only ever sold XB Falcons as "specials" but I have memories from the 70s seeing Falcon coupes with with the stripe running along the side and up over the boot where the GT wing is usually fitted and being told they are Goss specials

mehh.....

[allanv6gt]

XB Falcon John Goss Specials were 302 V8s only.
Very much like a baby GT in presentation.

from Wikipedia.....
The car was based on the XB Falcon 500 Hardtop and featured a 302 in³ (4.9 L) Cleveland V8, and some specific options including the GS Rally Pack which featured full dash instrumentation, a 3-spoke steering wheel, vented bonnet (hood) with locking pins, and 12-slot steel road wheels. A separate item featured on all John Goss Special hardtops were the cosmetic side body vents that were also a feature of contemporary Falcon GT hardtops.

[Kevaclone]

That was the XB, and of course the XB also had the blue or green bonnet and side stripe along the top of the doors and I think the cars were an off white colour.

I'm talking 1973 XA and TC Cortina