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 ...

Thing is, there was no easy way to look up JC Whitney's address. My dad was from southeastern Minnesota, which is more in Chicago's cultural orbit than in Minneapolis', and he figured that the U.S.