JBA supports local drag racing by sponsoring Barona Drag Strip and RaceLegal. Last night, July 24, 2010, Barona hosted its Funny Car Summer 2010 show. It was a fun time and the crowd seemed to enjoy it, even if one of the funny cars did try to eat a crew member!  I’ll apologize in advance for the lame night-time photography….let’s just call it “special effects” and let it go at that. The pictures don’t tell the definitive story, just random shots. Chris Boyer was on the microphone, the ice cream truck was armed and dangerous and the weather was perfect. One stop at Sonic on the way home and we called it a night. See the pictures for more details. -bt

Crower invited JBA to exhibit at their 2nd Annual Open House Saturday July 10, 2010. What a great collection of cars and gearheads! The event featured serious machinery, including top fuel nostalgia dragsters, vintage slingshots, offroad vehicles, pro mods, street rods, late models and muscle cars. Something for everyone! Hosted by Bruce and Dave Crower, Kerry Novak, Roger Levine and the rest of the Crower crew, a good time was had by all. If you played your cards right, you also got a tour of the 100,000 sq. ft. Crower facility. A number of the hard core vehicles took turns cackling for the crowd. Music and a snack bar topped it all off. See the pictures for more of the story. -bt

On Wednesday afternoon June 23rd JBA co-sponsored Dragster Nite at the Steakhouse Stake Out at Pinnacle Peak Steakhouse on Mission Gorge Road. Somehow we found a way to get out of moving our shop for a few hours to hang out with a bunch of drag racers. We brought down Fenn’s Vega drag car and Tucker’s old split window. The special guest was Don Prudhomme and he was as friendly as can be. He made a point of walking around the whole show and talking with folks, posing for pictures and signing autographs. Even though he’s earned superstar status in drag racing, at this show he was just another gearhead checking out the cars. One of the funny things he said about his driving career was “I’ve been on fire from here to New York .” See the attached pictures for more of the story. -bt

Just a quick thank you to the members of the Bonneville 200 MPH Club that put together the Annual Summer Party held at the NHRA Motorsports Museum on June 5th, 2010. I cruised up to Pomona with my son for the drinks, food, music, bench racing, raffle and all around fun. BBQ by Dan catered the event and the food was killer…especially the pork ribs. Lot’s of land speed racing celebrities too. Got our picture taken with a cigar-chomping Ed Iskendarian who was nice as can be. The raffle had great prizes like a framed picture of Thrust SSC breaking the sound barrier at Black Rock signed by the pilot…I mean…the driver Andy Green. The only reason the raffle sucked was that we didn’t win anything! Couldn’t ask for a better location than the NHRA Motorsports Museum (unless they moved the museum to San Diego). If you’ve never been to the museum, make it a priority. For more info, go to www.museum.nhra.com. Thanks again to the “two club” volunteers and club sponsors for a great event. -bt

Well I went out to one of the local car meets here in Texas and found a bunch of pretty nasty cars! Some of these guys were driving around with full slicks…there were cammed and turbo charged Vipers, Corvette’s, right hand drive Skyline’s, Supra’s, Cobra’s and Mach 1’s. Check it out!!!

Last Saturday over here at JBA Performance Center we had the San Diego Focus Club join us for a few hot dogs and they also put a couple of cars on our Chassis dyno!

Also we had a couple of happy customers drive by in their Muscle Cars…we had a ‘68 Pontiac Firebird 400, 70 1/2 Camaro Z28, a Olds 442 and a couple of late model Mustangs.  Throughout the day we had about 30 people out and about the shop checking us out and eating lunch.  Don’t forget to join us for our last Open House this weekend on Aug. 29th! 

Here are a few pictures from the weekend…