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Leo and Guust from Holland are thinking about fitting a hardtop to their Falcons. They would appreciate any information regarding trimming, fixing etc. from owners who have fitted one.
You can  E-Mail Leo  direct or   Guust  or me and I will pass on any info.

Doug Philp from Broughty Ferry near Dundee has resumed the build of his Falcon Sports SRi. Doug was on holiday in Yorkshire in May, when his house caught fire. You can understand that most of the summer he spent getting things back to normal and the JBA had to wait. Doug has returned to the task refreshed this Autumn. Check it out Here.

Steve Hill has dropped his web site about the Javelin. He has moved to an new site, but has still to add the Javelin Pages. I will keep you posted. 

   Coming Next Month   Nothing planned as yet. In fact it has gone very quiet. I guess it is down to the terrible floods that you are all experiencing down south. Hope next year it will be much drier. Maybe I  will do a Christmas Theme.

What's new this October :-  Another page about the JBA Javelin. 
David Bradburn's Build Progress with Photos.  Click Here.
JBA Open Day on 1st.October  Click Here.

A cloud hangs over Stoneleigh for next year 2001. New halls are being built to replace the old ones. The results of this, are that the price has rocketed and organizers will have to expect to pay very high fees for the use of the ground and halls for next year, which means these costs will have to be passed onto Manufacturers and Trade Exhibitors. Question is will they be able to afford such high costs and would it be worth their while.

Dig at JBA.  I had a wee dig at Dave & Ken in the Scottish Region web site, about not attending Scotland since 1997. Of course, I have got it wrong again,  As you can see in their reply below.

I guess we just miss a proper Kit Car Show in Scotland.

Stuart Kelly has suspended his JBA web site, as he is busy with other web projects. I hope he resumes this at a later date, as he had taken loads of good quality JBA photos, throughout the year. Some of which appear on this site. 

Wheel Alignment Central Region. A new centre has opened in Scotland called
PRO GRIP  8 Canal Bank, Bonnybridge, Falkirk, Stirlingshire. Tel:- 01324810111
Latest computerised 4 wheel aligner with a 5,000 car specification database with printout. They can also supply Suspension kits, Alloy wheels, Tyres and Exhausts.

Grantown on Spey

The Scottish section had their annual run to meet up with the northeners on Saturday 12th.August. This was the first run that we had with a Javelin in tow. Sorry Alex I shall rephrase that, it could show us a nice rear number plate, depicting that it was No1. We had the hoods down most of the day and the weather was very warm.  It was nice to welcome Alex Sargent with his JBA Javelin as a new member.

This is getting to look like last years report, as I was late as usual, catching them up at Ballater. I couldn't find them anywhere, all the cars were there, so I had a chat with Sugar while I searched for the mobile. They were having coffee in the hotel next door. Dave Tennant said you will have to be first next year.

We headed towards Grantown on Spey. Stopping at the Smoke House. It was here that we had arranged to meet up with Dick Scott from Inverness and he was waiting with that warm Scottish greeting.  The Smoke House was closed, but we had our packed lunch, in their picnic park, which is always open, but not the toilets. 

Gordon & Julie Hay, from Nethy Bridge had recently purchased a JBA Falcon Plus Two, turned up to meet and chat to our happy band.

We continued to Revak Estate half a mile along the road, in search of toilets and what a beautiful place it was. It was an ideal place for a rendezvous, had we known about it, with cafeteria, duck ponds and gorgeous surroundings. 

Dick joined us on our journey west through to Coylumbridge and  parted company with us here, heading north for home. We had to make a fuel stop at Newtonmore  before starting southbound. All the JBA's were able to fill up with unleaded, except me and as the big Esso garage did not stock LRP, I put in £5 of unleaded to get me to Dalwhinnie. I found it strange that an Esso garage did not have LRP as Esso were the first to advertise it last year before any other petrol company.

Whilst filling up in Dalwhinnie the weather started to change and sheets of rain could be seen falling in the distance, time to put the hood up. Dalwhinnie is a strange place weather wise, it can be bright and sunny one minute and a blizzard the next. The cafe that is there now was originally called "Port in a Storm". 

The final stop was at the House of Bruar a tourist attraction centre with walks and waterfalls, the best time to view the falls is in the spring, but I don't think that this year, it would have made much difference. 

The House of Bruar cars in the line up left to right are
Alex Sargent Javelin, Robbie Gibson Sports SR, Alan Miller Sports,
 Dave Tennant Plus 2 and John Donaldson Falcon TSR.

Thanks to Alex for taking the photographs.

Hi! Folks Well the season is moving on and the weather up till now has been terrible, however it changed in Scotland last weekend July 16th.for the outing of the JBAOC Scottish Region. More details Here.

This was a classic car event, which welcomes kit cars and is held at Dalmeny, South Queensferry near Edinburgh close to the Forth Bridge.

It was a large show of classic cars, with the JBAOC and the Scottish Kit Car Club having stands there. Camping is available on the site.

What made my day was finding a JBA Javelin on the Ford Capri Stand. It means that the complete range of models from JBA can be seen in Scotland.

This was the first Javelin ever built by JBA and was owned by Kim Hollings from Stockport who sold it to Alex from Dunbar Scotland. There is only a couple of photos of the Javelin on this site and no information at all about them. However with the help of Kim, who had also built another Javelin and Alex I hope to be able to put up a page dedicated to the Javelin with a lot more photos and more information. 

I do like looking at the classic cars, seeing the models I was brought up with. This is a Triumph Mayflower a car I would like to own.

This is a Hillman Imp it is a 1974 model and I could not resist it. I bought it Saturday July16th. the day before the show. I had one in the sixties, when the kids were wee and loved it. Once winter comes I shall start to refurbish it, as it is still taxed and MOTd. Now where's that Build Manual.

Tony Stafford still sells Imp parts. Quite a lot of Falcons have Imp tail lamps & rear flashers.

My son Kenny looked at it and smiled with fond affection and said 
"Little did I realize, when I was bundled into the back of the Imp all those years ago, that I would ever build a Falcon. Still I am glad you've got it, that means I can have the Falcon". No chance son.

Another Car for sale on the Forsale page Click Here 
And more details at this Site.

The JBA Owners Club has a new Web Address. You can now find it at www.jbaoc.org

The Scottish Kit Car Show  has now  reverted back to
The Royal Highland Showground, Ingleston, Edinburgh on  23rd & 24th. Sept 2000. More Details Click Here.

Wigtown Run May 20th.

The Scottish Section of the JBAOC had their first run of the season to Stair Park in Stranraer for the Wigtownshire Rally.  Donald Collier, John Donaldson, Dave Tennent, Ceri and myself .  I travelled down on the Sunday morning and the outlook was grim with rain threatening and at Glasgow very dark clouds . However once we got to Ayr the clouds dispersed and the sun started to break through.  Once we arrived at Stranraer the weather was lovely and warm.  The Park soon filled up and Ceri finally arrived. I really enjoy looking at Classic Cars, it reminds me of my boyhood years.  A lot of visitors thought our cars were classics.

Christine Collier won a bottle of "Queen Margaret" whisky in the raffle and wondered if it was real, as it had foreign writing on the label. I was able to assure her it was. It is blended by Invergordan Distillers in Leith and shipped to Germany then comes back into this country being sold at Lidl Stores. 
The blend is inferior to other Scottish blends by Invergordan.  

A very enjoyable day was had by all. 

There is a clear absence of photos in this report. The fool with the camera made a muck of them.
I guess it is a case of :-

"Hi! Scotty, Beam me up Stuart Kelly".

Find your friends or suppliers with the BT phone book and yellow pages.

I was pleased to receive this photo from Russell Smith, an owner from High Wycombe. As it shows one of the earlier Falcons. The first Falcon was built in 1982. Russell bought his car from Francis Lewis in Ormskirk, Lancashire. in 1988. It was built at the factory in 1984 for an owner in Appley Bridge, Wigan.

Russell is presently fitting a V8 engine to his car.

JBA Engineering Ltd.
Now has a new Web  and E-Mail address, as well as the old one.  You can also find them at    http://www.jbacars.co.uk/    Email JBA  info@jbacars.co.uk

The Falcon is spreading its wings.  More internet sites appearing. 1 Steve's JBA Javelin.  2 JBA Factory site.  3 Paul Hildreth's site. 4 JBAOC from Chris Evans.  5 JBAOC  New official site from Darren. 6 Leo's site from Holland.  7 This Site.  8 Stuart Kelly's site.

Change of Venue
The Edinburgh Ingleston Kit Car and Classic Show has moved to
The Museum of Flight East Lothian.