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At the Races
Toronto
Motorsports Park
Saturday September 2, 2001
Coffee Time Labour Day Weekend
Pro Comp / Semi
Nitrous John Gosson Camillus, N.Y. 96 STW Dragster
Michele Gabriel Camillus, N.Y. 96 STW Dragster
Beaver Springs Dragway
Beaver Springs, PA
May 29, 1999
Outlaw Pro Street
Nitrous John Gosson of Camillus, NY won a close one with Morrisdale's
Doug Sones. Gosson made up a slight starting line deficit with an 8.07
at 163 mph with his '96 Lumina 572, while Sones tried to chase him down
with a 168 mph top end charge from his '67 Corvette 460, falling short
with an 8.22 ET.
North American Nationals
Epping, N.H.
September 12, 1998
Holbrook Tool TS Quick 8 / Results of round 1 eliminations
Qua-Driver(Opp'nt) - - RT- - -ET- - -Speed- - Rd-Qua-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed
9 James Teachman . . . . . 7.627 - 175.37 - Q - 12 John Gosson . . . .
.7.912-176.03
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.802 - 8.376 - 162.94 - E1 *****WINNER*****0.420-7.865-185.30
Gosson was fourth alternate and shouldn't have had a chance here,
but he left right on time and Teachman was extremely late. Gosson advances
to face Swinarski in the semifinals.
Karma Department - wonder what this guy is doing now...
This
is apparently now a rather infamous story, I found it documented on the
web! The facts aren't exactly correct, I believe John was headed south
on I-81 to buy a car for Cindy, his estranged wife at the time. You can
just envision the bills flying all over the highway and cars pulling over
every where, I beleve this even made the front page of the Syracuse newspaper.
In 1983 John Gosson of Syracuse,
New York, decided to go buy a car. He stuffed $7,500 in bills into his
leather jacket and hopped onto his motorcycle. Unbeknownst to him, the
cash flew out of his pockets one bill at a time. By the time he arrived
at the car lot, he had only $3,240 left. A month later Gosson got a postcard
in the mail from San Francisco which said, "The weather's great.
It took me a while to find out who to thank for this great vacation...It
was like seventh heaven picking and gathering loose bills on the highway.
Having a great time. Sincerely, Thankful."