JBA Coffee and Cars on the Mesa - #173 January 12th 2025

For the 174^th time, JBA welcomed our local community of Hot Roders, Muscle Car aficionados, and Classic Car enthusiasts to Coffee and Cars on the Mesa. The regular mix of bad coffee, good donuts, and awesome burn-outs made this one an event to remember! Attendance once again packed JBA's lot and the surrounding streets with dozens of amazing cars representing everything from dedicated drag builds, picture perfect resto-mods, pro-touring monsters, and concourse winning examples of some of the rarest and most sought after classic muscle cars around.  Late model Mustangs, Camaros, Corvettes, Chargers and Challengers one upped each other in one Smokey burn-out after another. Not to be outdone, classic muscle from Ford, Mopar, GM and AMC showed that you don't need fuel injection, electronic line-locks, and HP tuner credits to make the massive power and rumbling V8 harmonics JBA is known for.

Folks were invited to tour the entirety of the JBA workspace, engine shop and campus-and feasted their eyes on the dozens of amazing builds and projects we currently have underway at JBA. Whether it was CARB compliant supercharger installations on late model Mustangs, suspension upgrades underway on wicked autocross and track prepped Fox body Mustangs, or one of the ground-up early Fastback builds on their way to near concourse perfection- the scope and range of JBA's skillset, workmanship, and passion was inspiring and left jaws dropped in fascination. 

As has become a tradition at JBA's Coffee and Cars events- our Engine Shop showcased the latest in  JBA's "Anti-Crate" performance powerplant builds on our engine dyno - putting a high revving  30 over 302 small block Ford through its paces. Let us know if you'd like to see what it can do in JBA's burnout box next month when we'll likely have it installed in the GT40 it was built for!

All this action started before the sun had even risen- and everyone was still able to make it to church, brunch, or whatever else folks had planned for their Sunday- JBA's founder and president,  J. Bittle likes to assess performance by asking his crew, "Are we winning?" This Sunday, the answer was categorically a "HELL YES!"    

Coffee & Cars on the Mesa

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