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 ...

JC Whitney is still a great place to buy your car parts these days, but its hard-copy catalogs were as indispensible as phone books in the pre-Internet era; if you worked on your own vehicles ...

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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 s… ...

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.