J.C.Whitney

[unclescott58]

Talk about J.C.Whitney catalogs. One of my catalogs from 1971 has the ad shown below. I tried taking a photo of actual ad in my catalog, but I could not get the photo to down load. So I got this photo from another site on the web. But it is the exact same ad.

Interesting to see who's in the ad. I wonder if he really ever used Joe Welder "Hell-Bent for Leather N' Lead bracelets?

Scott

[Danno]

Made sense to me, but Dad has actually talked about going into the store when he and Mom lived here in the early 70's. The building was big enough to have two entrances and had the entrance on one street that had one name then the entrance on another street had the other name. No matter which entrance you walked in, you were in the same store!

I remember, as a teen, getting both the Whitney and Warshawski catalogs, thinking I was going to do some serious price-comparisons! They both published illustrations of their big stores . . . Once I really looked at them, I realized it was the same building but portrayed from two different views!

The building was huge and it fronted on two streets . . . the building had one company's name on one street and the other company's name on the cross street! Just as Joe said: no matter which entrance you used, you were in the same building, same store!

I was disillusioned! Then I laughed about it every time I thought about it. I always wondered how many people went through life buying both catalogs and thinking they were competing companies!!

[Tom Geiger]

Yup, I came into the Whitney catalog when I was ten. I had this dream of building my own car from scratch so I started this long list from the catalog. As you can imagine, I got about that far!

The thing that got me was that their car applications for parts listed cars that didn't exist... like it would say "64-69 Camaro".. where Camaros started in 1967. Even I knew that when I was a kid. My last foray with Whitney was when was working on my '73 Scamp in the late 1980s. They offered a rear window louver listing '73 Scamp-Dart Sport. I get this thing and it no way was designed for my car. The Scamp had a concave rear window and this part was straight. I had to go to UPS to return it.

[chunkypeanutbutter]

Does Whitney still sell Rolls and Ford hoods for Bugs?

I always loved those Ford hoods.

[unclescott58]

Does Whitney still sell Rolls and Ford hoods for Bugs?

I always loved those Ford hoods.

They did at one time. I don't know if they do today or not. Speaking of that. Does anybody know were one can get a '40 Ford style hood that would fit on Revell's Beetle convertible?

Scott

Edited October 27, 2014 by unclescott58

[Tom Geiger]

Does Whitney still sell Rolls and Ford hoods for Bugs?

I always loved those Ford hoods.

If someone makes it, they probably list it. Whitney didn't have everything they listed in their store. Much of it was drop shipped by vendors, especially the stuff that was specific to cars like convertible tops and carpet sets. I know that they instructed me to mail the window louvers back to another address.

[chunkypeanutbutter]

They did at one time. I don't know if they do today or not. Speaking of that. Does anybody know were one can get a '40 Ford style hood that would fit on Revell's Beetle convertible?

Scott

Locate the old AMT Streetle Beetle.

That had a Ford hood.

[unclescott58]

Locate the old AMT Streetle Beetle.

That had a Ford hood.

Yea, but will the hood fit other Beetle kits? Because, other than the hood, I have no interest in that kit.

Scott

[chunkypeanutbutter]

I dunno, mush. You might have to graft one on there yourself.