Hi Guys. Although I'm a writer by trade now, it's not easy writing about myself, so please bear with me.
My name is Scotty Gosson (I've been using "Jangleguy" online for years and used it here out of habit). Born in 1956 in The Dalles, Oregon. Been living in southern Oregon (Medford) for the last 15 years.
Born into a poverty level family, where our "family car" was a full race flathead '47 Harley (solo seat, no fenders, open headers, no brakes!). Learned to read via older brother's car magazines. Left home at 14 to street race full time, supporting my habit with wrecking yard jobs. Finally graduated to chassis fabrication and stumbled into some jobs at high level rod/custom/race shops. I'm an "okay" fabricator, but always struggled to keep up with my peer group. When the economy got me in '08, I sold off everything and scaled my life down. I'd been freelancing feature stories to magazines and when a book deal came along, I jumped on it. Now I have a multi-book deal with Cartech and self publish some, too.
Got hooked on salt in the '70s and been to Bonneville several times as spectator, crew guy and driver. Drag racing (grassroots style) has always been my primary obsession, but LSR stuff is a close second...
I'm currently working on a book about overeas racers bringing their cars to the U.S. to run them and B-ville is a big part of that, so I'm researching here, as well as meeting prospective feature characters for the book. My hope is that I can connect with these people without being considered a spammer.
Out of room. Thanks,
Scotty