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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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As I feed hundreds of strips of my old 35mm negatives through a film scanner, I keep running across interesting automotive stuff. Last week it was this 1988 image of then-new cars in California's ...