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 ...

Here are 10 of the oddest car gadgets in history, plucked from the annals of the famed JC Whitney auto parts catalog.

LASALLE, Ill. — 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 having “one of the ...

JC Whitney is celebrating 100 years in business in 2015. To look back on that long history, the company has picked 10 of the oddest products that it has ever offered in its catalogs.

Big news for fans of the JC Whitney catalog! It's making a comeback as a 100+ page print and digital magazine! A new issue of the JC Whitney Magazine + Catalog will be released every quarter.

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 ...

Renowned for its extensive catalogs since 1934, JC Whitney has long been the go-to resource for automotive parts and accessories - while also serving as a rite of automotive passage for tens of ...

That would be the beloved JC Whitney auto parts mail-order catalog which, aside from the usual array of tires, batteries and mufflers, was traditionally an emporium of hard-to-find automotive ...

A 24 Hours of Lemons racer just gave me 50 pounds of 1970s J.C. Whitney catalogs, and my love of car clocks sent me right to the C part of the index. Here's what I found in a 1978 catalog.

That would be the beloved JC Whitney auto parts mail-order catalog which, aside from the usual array of tires, batteries and mufflers, was traditionally an emporium of hard-to-find automotive ...

Big news for fans of the JC Whitney catalog! It's making a comeback as a 100+ page print and digital magazine! A new issue of the JC Whitney Magazine + Catalog will be released every quarter.