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 ...

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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 ...