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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When I had the world's sketchiest '58 Beetle in high school, I worshiped the Volkswagen section of the J.C. Whitney catalog. So many speed parts! Still, you couldn't buy a bolt-on supercharger kit ...

Back in our car-crazed youth, one of our great fascinations was perusing the annual JC Whitney auto parts catalog to help fuel our premium-grade vehicular fantasies (those growing up in or near ...

A true automotive icon is celebrating its 100 anniversary this year, one that’s been satisfying the needs of garage mechanics and fueling the fantasies of car crazy adolescents for generations. That ...