JBA Speed Shop kicks off the 40th Anniversary Celebration! November 9, 2025

 

40 Years Strong

Our amazing day... November 9, 2025, thank you to the hundreds of friends and supporters that attended our 40th Birthday Bash and chose to bring hundreds of mean machines, their kids, their friends and family.  

November 9th was one of our largest events ever at our Kearny Villa campus, ranking with our decades prior JBA Dagget Street, Aero Drive, Convoy St. and Mission Gorge Rd. epic Rock'N Roll Speed Shop Show events.  The Coffee and Cars opening rolls into our celebration Rock'n Roll Show with the Beer Garden and JBA Brew tasting with the Goodie Bags for those that brought cars along with the event mug sales and t-shirt sales and hundreds of Bittle Brats and Dawgs and even Birthday Cakes!  Of course, the Burnouts made the entire day incredible!  Thank you to the JBA friends, all the helpers, including friends in our SD Mustang Club who volunteered to help serve and park cars and all our JBA staff that attended, worked and helped us carry the day on their 7th workday of that week!  God Bless JBA for the next 40 years!
 
 
1985 to 2025 is forty years of high-performance car building in San Diego as J. Bittle American opened and grew into today’s Just Bad Ass Speed Shop! 

J.’s speed shop originated in 1979 in Aggieland as J.’s Total Performance Texaco gas station/speed shop in Bryan/College Station, Texas. His dual bay full-service speedy Texaco was rocked unfortunately by the 1883 oil drop and Jay decided to relocate back to SoCal & San Diego! 

After returning home to SoCal, Jay lead sales at Drew Ford in ’83-’84 and then opened JBA Speed in 1985!  Today, Austin and Dad keep building and maintaining the future of the Internal Combustion Engines for San Diego.

With 40 Years of excellence, our shop has become a trusted destination for car enthusiasts. We're passionate about automotive performance and one dedicated to providing expert advice and top-notch services. Our team is committed to continuing this tradition of excellence.

Itinerary
Welcome to the 40th Anniversary of JBA Speed Shop.  
Hang around after our traditional Coffee and Cars or come back later as we roll into our Rock n' Roll celebration.  This will be a rolling car show/cruise-in featuring BBQ, Bittle Dawgs, goodie bags and a beer tasting area featuring JBA’s latest collaboration, JBA Track-Bite Lager! The entire JBA campus facility will be in open-house mode for everyone to enjoy.  Check out our campus of service department, machine shop, fabrication department, plumbing department, our engine and chassis dyno cells and our fun showroom.
 
 ITINERARY - Sunday November 9, 2025
6:00a - 8:00a: Coffee & Cars 
8:20a: Honoring our Veterans
8:45a: Burnouts
9:30a: Cars & Coffee Ends
9:30a - 11a: Cruise in or Through
This is an open event where you are free to hang out as long as you like or leave and return later to continue the festivities. Extra parking is available on the street Kearny Villa Road, Kearny Villa Court or in the San Diego Hardware parking lot across the street.
10:00a - 2p: Beer Garden Visit the beer garden and find out what’s been brewing when JBA isn‘t racin’ or wrenchin’, come taste the JBA Track-Bite Lager and reserve your JBA Brew in time for the holidays.
11:00a - 2p: Lunch Service
Follow the smell of BBQ and grab some good eats. 
For $10 choose one of three lunch options.
1)The Bittle Dawg, 2) Bratwurst or 3) Beef Hot Dog  
Included are all the fixxins’, grilled onions and peppers. 
Side choices of chips, Cole slaw, baked beans, Potato Salad and/or STP Wings
11:30a - 2p: “The Classic Rock Band” featuring Blake Thompson of the original "MeltDowns"!
Rock out to the music that made up the soundtrack of the muscle car era over by JBA’s Meltdown Tires. classic rock and room to sing along, dance and relax.
2:30p - 3p: More Burnouts

40 Years Strong

1985 to 2025 is forty years of high-performance car building in San Diego as J. Bittle American opened and grew into today’s Just Bad Ass Speed Shop! 

J.’s speed shop originated in 1979 in Aggieland as J.’s Total Performance Texaco gas station/speed shop in Bryan/College Station, Texas. His dual bay full-service speedy Texaco was rocked unfortunately by the 1883 oil drop and Jay decided to relocate back to SoCal & San Diego! 

After returning home to SoCal, Jay lead sales at Drew Ford in ’83-’84 and then opened JBA Speed in 1985!  Today, Austin and Dad keep building and maintaining the future of the Internal Combustion Engines for San Diego.

With 40 Years of excellence, our shop has become a trusted destination for car enthusiasts. We're passionate about automotive performance and one dedicated to providing expert advice and top-notch services. Our team is committed to continuing this tradition of excellence.

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