Richard M. Langworth

Clarence B. “Bud” Juneau, the Packard Club’s long­time Vice Pres­i­dent for pub­li­ca­tions, passed away March 25th, leav­ing his many friends bereft. This was my con­tri­bu­tion to a spe­cial edi­tion of The Packard Cor­morant, Fourth Quar­ter 2021, pub­lished in his hon­or. —RML

Memories of Bud

Bud Juneau gave me my first real job. I don’t mean “work,” the things we do for some enti­ty which pays us. I mean what we do indi­vid­u­al­ly, hop­ing for pay and sole­ly respon­si­ble for suc­cess or fail­ure. For me, this began with Bud.

In 1975 I resigned as senior edi­tor at Auto­mo­bile Quar­ter­ly and set out to be an inde­pen­dent motor­ing writer.…

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