Oops, my mistake! Apologies to all. I was thinking of Warshawsky's, which
used to be the same thing as JCW. Roy Warshawsky died in 1997, and his
family eventually sold the business to a bunch of investment bankers.
http://www.riversidecompany.com/
The JCW name lives on, but that huge, crowded store with the worn wooden
floors on State St. is gone.
-- Randall
> -----Original Message-----
> From: triumphs-bounces@autox.team.net [mailto:triumphs-
> bounces@autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Joe Curry
> Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2009 11:28 AM
> To: 'Randall'; triumphs@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: [TR] Triumphest/VTR info
>
> What do you mean, "JCW is no more"? They are still alive and kicking last
> I
> checked!
>
> http://www.jcwhitney.com/Auto-Parts/10101.jcw
>
> Joe
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: triumphs-bounces@autox.team.net
> [mailto:triumphs-bounces@autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Randall
> Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2009 12:20 PM
> To: triumphs@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: [TR] Triumphest/VTR info
>
> > or even fuzzy
> > dice
> > from J.C. Whitney
> > ?back when your car was six months old,
>
> This sounds like the beginning of a new award to me. We used to have the
> "JC Whitney" award for the most gadgets; now that JCW is no more we should
> make it the "period correct" JCW award <G>
>
> BTW, I came across a web site that claims LeCarra was started by Dick and
> Roy Ostein from San Diego, California; sometime after they joined the
> military in 1976 and got stationed in France. So I don't think the
> LeCarra
> wheels can be "period correct" for any but the very last few years of
> Triumphs.
>
> That link is
> http://www.superchevy.com/technical/additionaltech_perfdir/shoptour/0104sc
> _l
> ecarra/index.html
> but for some reason it's grayed out when I look at it with IE. I had to
> examine the source in text mode to read it.
>
> Randall
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