If you are like me, it was almost like getting the Sears Christmas Catalog when the JC Whitney catalog came. As a very young man, I recall turning the pages, one by one, looking at every automotive ...

Back before there was the Internet, or even big car-parts chain stores, there was the JC Whitney catalog. Printed on cheap, pulpy paper and featuring tens of thousands of tiny, hand-drawn ...

Car buffs of a certain age are very familiar with the JC Whitney catalog, chock-full of items to accessorize their automobiles. Well the Chicago-area company, based in LaSalle, is celebrating its ...

Since JC Whitney has been with us for 100 years, we're going through some old catalogs from the pre-Internet era and celebrating the iconic line drawings and cheap prices of the publications that once ...

As part of its centennial celebration, JC Whitney, the gigantic auto parts and accessories company, has searched the archives of its catalogs to find the 10 oddest auto accessories it ever has ever ...

LASALLE, Ill. (Feb. 27, 2015) — Any automotive buff knows a JC Whitney catalog conjures visions of lake pipes, carbs, fenders and hard-to-get parts and accessories. The company that bills itself as ...

This is one of those things that car accessory scientists have been debating for years: can nearly every piece of adhesive-backed chrome bullshit sold in the JC Whitney catalog be adhered to one ...

TORRANCE, Calif., Feb. 12, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- CarParts.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: PRTS), a leading eCommerce destination for automotive parts and accessories and the parent company of JC Whitney, is proud ...

J.C. Whitney & Co., the Chicago-based parts catalog, has been sold by the Warshawsky family to the Riverside Co., a privately held buyout firm based in Cleveland and New York, and members of senior ...