Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jim Gorzelany is a veteran automotive journalist. Back in the car-crazed youths of many Americans, perusing the annual JC Whitney ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...