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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...