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.

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 senior ...

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 ...

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