Revisiting an Old Standby

These days anything you can imagine needing is but a click away. We take for granted that if we need an oddball part the biggest part of our suffering will be an extra few days shipping time. Back in the day things weren't so easy. We had a stack -- a giant stack -- of catalogs and price lists in the shop. There was no central place to look things up. If you needed it, you had to find the right supplier, open the catalog and find the part. It was often tedious to say the least. One catalog that everybody had on hand was the J.C. Whitney book. Even if they didn't have parts to fit your make, you could find an endless array of useful tools and accessories inside. Of all the old standby catalogs, few have survived the jump to online sales. J.C. Whitney has more than survived, they seem to have really expanded their inventory of available stuff. Sure, there are some things I wouldn't order from JCWhitney.com, but they've still got hundreds of great deals and amazing values. Definitely worth a bookmark!