On Sunday August 1, JBA celebrated its 25th Anniversary with its first annual Power Festival, Open Show & Cruise. The event also served as the grand opening for JBA’s new expanded facility at 5675 Kearny Villa Road, San Diego, CA 92123. The day featured a major car show/cruise, tours, a raffle, prizes, models, engine and chassis dyno demonstrations, a vendor gallery, food, music by Don Swanson & the Retro Rocketts, and pinstriping by Kong. JBA’s customers turned out in force with hot rods, race cars, customs, classics and late-models. JBA also displayed current project cars, staff rides and several examples of JBA’s new GreenSpeedCo technology. The parking lot was packed early and reinforcements continued to cruise in all day. Much thanks to the Mustang Club, Shelby Club, Mopar Club and Pontiac Club who all helped out by controlling the parking areas. Thanks also to our vendors, but most of all, to our customers who it made it such a great day! This collection of pictures features mostly shots from the parking areas around the building. See the other posts for pictures of cars and the facility.

JBA was invited to speak at the June meeting of the San Diego Region of the Shelby American Automobile Club on June 17, 2010 at Casa Machado next to Montgomery Airfield. After the club enjoyed a fine dinner that featured multiple margaritas and multiple fly-bys, club senior adviser Steve McKay conducted the official business. Then J. Bittle reviewed his early involvement in motorsports including his first race (lawn mowers!) which J won. He also described how he came to own his 1967 Shelby GT500. Next, J introduced Bruce Tucker for a presentation on custom tuning late-model fuel injected vehicles. After the tech talk, the meeting got really interesting as we headed out to the parking lot to see (and hear) Chuck’s brand new 2011 5.0L Mustang GT. It’s a stunner, and fast too. Check out the attached pictures. For more info on the Shelby club, go to www.socalsaac.org. -bt