Meet The Team
Meet The Team
Meet the ASE Certified JBA Speed Shop Team, the crew behind San Diego’s most trusted performance shop. Our team brings together master technicians, engine builders, machinists, and service writers dedicated to precision, transparency, and world-class automotive craftsmanship. For over 40 years, our San Diego-based crew has built, tuned, and tested some of the most respected vehicles on the West Coast. From master machinists to ASE-certified technicians, every member of the JBA family shares one goal-to deliver precision, power, and reliability in everything we touch.
Management Team
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J. Bittle
J. Bittle
President
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Experience: • Began playing with cars in 1972 in High School…driving my Dad’s Opel Rally Cadet 1900cc 4-speed! • Arrived at JBA: 1985 after Joe Drew turned down opening up a department in Drew Ford. • Favorite car: 1967 Shelby GT500 • JBA Speed Shop pulls ahead
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Vickie Bittle
Vickie Bittle
Controller
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Experience: • I have always loved cars and their makers • My dad bought, fixed and sold used cars • Met J., joined the Texas A&M Sports Car Club and bought a 1969 Mach 1 428SCJ — all in the same year! • Favorite cars: 1965 Shelby; 1990s Taurus SHO & F150, 2012 Mustang Boss 302. • Fun fact: Loves loud cars with visibility!
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Austin Bittle
Austin Bittle
General Manager
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Experience: • Began learning about cars via a 1966 Ford Fairlane 500XL with a 390. • Arrived at JBA in 1987 in a baby seat in the back of a Mustang SVO. • Graduated from Texas A&M like both my parents, my brother, and my grandfather. • Favorite Car: 1969 Ford Mustang Mach 1 SCJ.
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The Bittle Family Legacy
The Bittle Family
JBA - A Family Business
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The Bittle Family History • James “J" Bittle • Vickie Bittle • Austin Bittle • Stewart Bittle • James L Bittle, DVM
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Dave McLellan
Dave McLellan
CFO
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Experience: • From: San Diego CA. • Favorite Car: 1969 Corvette. • About: I just love the numbers!
Service Team
The JBA Speed Shop Service Team handles everything from Accounting, Inventory Control, Parts Management, Data Management and customer support.
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Darlene Holden
Darlene Holden
Senior Accountant & Bookkeeper
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Experience: • From: Phoenix, AZ. • Favorite Car: 1st Gen Bronco. • About: Accounting & a gym rat!
Greg Raymond
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Greg Raymond
Product Line Sales & Data Manager
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Experience: • Born and raised in San Diego. Graduate of San Diego State University 1993 • 30 Years of Performance Automotive Aftermarket experience. National Sales Manager for JBA Performance Exhaust. Sales, Marketing and Electronic Cataloging Manager for PerTronix Performance Brands. Responsible for Platinum level ACES and PIES Data Sets. • Favorite car(s): 1969 Corvette L71 Roadster, 1965 Pro Touring Mustang & 1964 Pontiac GTO Convertible.
Mike Balzer
Mike Balzer
Lead Engineer
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Experience:
• From San Antonio, TX
• Favorite cars include a '65 GTO and '70-'73 Firebirds. '63-'67 Mid Year Corvettes also in the mix
• Hobbies outside cars include hunting and fishing
Paul Crutcher
Paul Crutcher
Assistant Parts Manager & Expediter
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Experience:
• From Riverside, CA
• Favorite Car: Favorite car is a '33 or '34 Ford. Currently own a '31 Ford Model A roadster pickup
• Lore is that my great grandfather worked on Bonnie and Clyde's '34 Ford
• A favorite hobby is pre-war Fords, both the cars themselves and their history
Alex Conger
Alex Conger
Performance Plumbing Technician & Horsepower Specialist
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Experience:
• Born and raised in San Diego; graduated from Clairemont High School.
• When I was five years old, my neighbors were always working on hot rods; I started working on tossed carburetors shortly thereafter.
• My expertise is in AN plumbing and JBA header sales.
• Man of faith who loves cars, fishing and hanging at the beach.
• Been working with J Bittle since 1999.
Marc Bodrie
Marc Bodrie
Parts Manager
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Experience: • Born in Michigan, grew up in Santee, CA. (when it was out in the sticks). • Favorite Car: 1969 Ford Boss 429. • Owned Fords my whole life, Pintos to Galaxies and Mustangs from every generation. • Cars, motorcycles, target shooting, landscaping, my mountain cabin, family and grandkids are my life.
Service Writer Team
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Scott Coakley
Scott Coakley
Senior Performance Service Writer
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Experience:
• From Philly, PA
• Favorite car is any Cobra roadster, real or replica, 289 or 427. "Most like a motorcycle," he says
• Followed in the footsteps of Dad who was a shop tech/mechanic
• A prime hobby is motorcycles, with a BMW 1200 GS adventure bike as the current form of leisure travel
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Matt Thomas
Matt Thomas
Senior Service Writer
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Experience:
• From San Diego, CA
• Favorite car: 64-67 Chevelles
• Grew up with classic cars and have always owned them. My family comes from speedway Indiana, and car culture has always been present in my life.
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Adam Borrelli
Adam Borrelli
Service Writer & Customer Service
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Experience:
• From Boston, Mass
• 2003 C5 ZO6
• LS Engine Builds and Modifications.
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Michael Selbert
Michael Selbert
Senior Service Writer
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Experience:
• Michael grew up in Connecticut building and racing fox body mustangs as a younger adult and completed multiple degrees and certificates in Automotive Technology while expanding his expertise as a technician, including working at the local Ford dealer.
• favorite car: Exotic designs such as the Saleen S7, Ford GT and GT40, Shelby Daytona and Cobra.
• Other experience includes decades in customer service and many years of operating his own automotive business working with high performance and classic cars. A passion for providing a fantastic customer experience, a high level of attention to detail and a superb quality of work have contributed to his success.
• In his free time Michael enjoys yoga and exercise, time in nature as well as spiritual and personal growth.
Performance Machine Team
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John Elderhorst
J.Elderhorst
Senior Machinist & Engine Assembly Manager
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Experience: • From New Britain, PA.. • Favorite car 1965 GTO post coupe. • Started working with J. in Texas 1980. • Mechanic - machinist - engine assembly. • Fishing - motorcycles - aircraft and family.
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Ethan Moradzadeh
Ethan Moradzadeh
Performance Machinist & Horsepower Specialist
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Experience: • From Merced, CA. • Favorite car is emphatically a '67 Mustang fastback. • High-performance Machine work and assembly. • Grandfather had a '67 fastback...hence the love starting as a toddler. Hobbies outside of cars include camping in a vintage F250 pickup and horseback riding.
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Travis Schultz
Travis Schultz
Machine Shop Performance Technician
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Experience: • From Liberty, MO • Favorite car is a 1970 Mustang Trans-Am Race Car • Engine Performance and Rebuilding. • The best things in life are loud music and fast cars.
Technicians
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Randy Alldredge
Randy Alldredge
Service Director & Senior Horsepower Technician
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Experience: • From: San Diego, CA • Favorite car: 1972 Chevrolet Chevelle. • Diagnostics, Electrical, wiring, carburetor (adjustments, tuning, refreshening) I've been around high-performance vehicles since I was a kid, including drag and circle track racing. I currently compete in dirt circle track racing at our local Barona Speedway. I have over 20 years of professional automotive repair and build experience.
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Carlos Robles Hinojosa
Carlos Robles Hinojosa
Senior Performance Technician
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Experience:
• From Barrio Logan, San Diego
• Favorite car is a '55 Chevy gasser or any nostalgia gasser for that matter
• Father had a transmission shop, worked on everything there
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Ray Klimas
Ray Klimas
Performance Technician
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Experience: • From: Cleveland, Ohio - moved to SanDiego 1987 • Favorite Car: 1955 chevy nomad wagon. • Grew up fixing things on my own. Auto shop in high school - working on all the old classics over all the years. • I ride a Harley motorcycle every day and race dirt cars for fun. (Dwarf division & Pony Stock division.
Brandon Neu
Brandon Scott
Performance Technician
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Experience:
• From San Diego, CA
• Favorite car is 1968 Chevy Nova
• Worked on engine builds and chassis fabrication
• Professional tattoo artist in my free time!
Max Dalton
Max Dalton
Performance Technician & Fabricator
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Experience:
• From El Cajon Ca.
• Favorite car 1967 Mercury Cougar.
• Grew up Building Hotrods and Racecars with my Dad.
• Love going to any local racetrack. Drag or circle.
Dominic Gianetti
Dominic Gianetti
Performance Technician & Horsepower Specialist
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Experience: • From: San Diego CA. • Favorite Car: 1954 Chevy Truck. • I Made my dad promise me my truck when I was 4 years old, I've worked on exclusively hot rods and muscle cars since graduating high school. • I enjoy racing my truck for fun, runs low 6"s on pump gas and drives on the street.
Darren Bay
Darren Bay
Performance Technician
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Experience: • From: El Cajon, CA. • Favorite Car: 1966 Chevelle SS. • GM tech for 8 years, Roller coaster and amusement park ride tech for 12 years. • Driving dune buggies in Glamis, CA and played semiprofessional paintball for 16 years.
Cole Barnett
Cole Barnett
Performance Technician
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Experience: • From El Cajon, CA. • Favorite: 59 El Camino. A close second would be my 1966 Pontiac Catalina on air bagz. • I have a lot of experience in suspension and brakes being doing them on classic cars most of my life. • I love punk rock and thrashing my head at rock shows!
Chris Reeves
Chris Reeves
Performance Technician
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Experience: • From: San Diego, CA. • Favorite Car: 1964 Pontiac GTO. • I love to work on vintage Racecars.
Tire Center
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Kyle Johnston
Kyle Johnston
Assistant Manager & Installer Performance Tire Center
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Experience: • Born and raised in San Diego; graduated from West Hills High School in Santee • 14 years experience at a nationally known tire center, working at six separate San Diego locations and rising to assistant manager; created and managed their Training Center to teach employees all about tires. • Favorite Car: “I love GTOs and two door muscle cars of all kinds.”
General Services
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Rusty Staley
Rusty Staley
General Services Alignment Technician
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Experience:
• Grew up in Peoria, Illinois and Topeka, Kansas; started working on domestic cars and hot rods with the next door neighbor as a kid; took shop classes and ‘lived’ at the race track as a teen
• Served our country in the United States Navy for 20 years
• 2018 Barona Speed Stock Pony Champion driving a 1974 Ford Pinto w/164 HP!
• Favorite Car: My 1971 Chevy Nova
Marco Downs
Marco Downs
General Services
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Experience: • San Diego, CA. • Favorite Car: Anything mid 50's through early 60's. • When I was little, I went to NASCAR races with my dad when he did all the photography for American Thunder magazine. • I spend my free time working on my cars and hiking/camping.
Kelsey Dean
Kelsey Dean
General Services
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Experience:
• From: San Diego, CA.
• Favorite Car: Favorite car is 1959 El Camino.
• Grew up building pre-war hot rods with my dad
• I love to go to the local drag strip in my free timeMarketing
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Stewart Bittle
Stewart Bittle
Marketing and Promotions Manager
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Experience:
• From San Diego CA
• Favorite car 1968 Bullitt Mustang.
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Kurtis Stockton
Kurtis Stockton
Just Bad Ass Cars Marketing Manager
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Experience: • From: Madera, CA. • Favorite car: 1967 Chevrolet Camaro RS/SS. • No shock to anyone, I am a huge automotive enthusiast.
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Don Cole
Don Cole
Photographer
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Experience:
• Born in Texas, High School and early 20’s in Colorado, San Diego since 1980.
• A Ford. My Blue 1972 is my current favorite with my Silver & Blue 1972 Gran Torino Sport a close second.
• Photography, Graphic Design and Websites with a little bit of mechanical car craft thrown in as a diversion. I also have a background in Quality Assurance, metal fabrication and manufacturing.
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Pamela Lee Park
Pamela Lee Park
Merchandise & Events
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Experience:
• From San Diego CA
• Favorite car 1970 Camaro.
Our Mission
The JBA Speed Shop Team is built on craftsmanship, integrity, and a deep respect for performance culture. Every technician, fabricator, and tuner on our staff shares a commitment to doing work the right way—no shortcuts, no guesswork, just proven skill and pride in every job that leaves our shop.
As San Diego’s longest-running high-performance destination, we invest heavily in training, modern diagnostic tools, and hands-on experience so our team stays ahead of evolving automotive technology. Whether we’re rebuilding a carbureted classic, blueprinting a modern engine, or dialing in a custom dyno tune, our team approaches every vehicle with the same care and discipline.
Over the years, the JBA Speed Shop Team has earned a reputation not just for the quality of our builds, but for the way we treat people. Customers trust our crew because we communicate clearly, stand behind our work, and take the time to educate drivers about their cars. From routine repairs to full custom conversions, our specialists collaborate across departments to ensure every project is engineered, installed, and tested to JBA standards. That combination of teamwork, technical depth, and old-school pride is what continues to set JBA apart in San Diego’s performance community.
Our Services
With nearly four decades of experience, the JBA Speed Shop Team continues to lead San Diego’s performance community with integrity, innovation, and unmatched automotive expertise. Whether you’re bringing in your first classic car or your fifteenth build, you’ll find more than a service shop here—you’ll find a team that treats your project like their own. It’s this dedication to craftsmanship and integrity that’s made JBA Speed Shop one of the most trusted names in performance for four decades and counting.
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- Toll Free: (888) JBA-5570
- Fax: 858.495.0954
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