Knotts...I was a little disappointed

[Richard Hudgins]

Hi Edley,

I know there was no offense meant. It is always hard to make a joke that everyone gets. I hope that everyone got yours. I did.

Ernie.

JBL/SK has been building components for many years for race teams and suppliers as well as design work. This is what we live off of. Not the Cobra.

Some of the current race customers for your perusal.

TRD: Engine components CART, (now IRL), F1 and offroad.
Honda:Engine components CART (now IRL)and F1.
Chrysler: Engine components (FIA Viper and LM sports car)
Reynard: Suspension and chassis bits
Lola: Suspension bits
Macmillen: gearboxes and drivetrain
Hewland: gearbox components
Staffs: gearbox components
Mickey Thompson: Gearboxes and drivetrain
Oreca (FIA Viper) Chassis bits
Swift Engineering (Chassis bits and engineering)
Cunningham (FIA vipers and NASCAR engine drive systems)
Everingham(sp) (NASCAR engine drive systems)

These folks are what keeps JBL/SK Specialties in business. As well as many normal commercial firms. We build optics, touch control mechanisms, Kennedy motorcycle bits (The Harkey king) etc.

In other words, it takes a lot of other effort to support the build of the JBL roadster. the marketplace will never support the technology cost of the JBL.

We do it because it is fun. The folks that own a JBL are always smiling after a short drive. That is the point of it all.

There are some new really amusing things coming in the next year or so from JBL/SK. I think that we will have a lot of fun with these new products.

(of course, we will not make any money from them, but they will be fun and will raise the bar in the industry. Whatever that is worth.)