Happy 80th, W. E. Butterworth! ("Susan and Her Classic Convertible," 1970)
Lenona
I found "Susan and Her Classic Convertible" in the 1980s(?), bound
with plastic with two other books, in a supermarket. Dated, but still
fun.
"When Susan inherits her great-grandfather's 1947 Cadillac, her
efforts to rebuild the engine bring her into contact with people she's
never met before. No one wants her to take auto shop, her former
friends spread rumors when they see her with the boy whose family owns
the junkyard, and her cousin can't get over the feeling that the car
should have been his. A malt-shop teen romance as written by a man."
Far better known by his pen name, W. E. B. Griffin, military novelist.
Aka William Edmund Butterworth, III, W. E. Butterworth, W. Edmund
Butterworth, III, Alex Baldwin, Webb Beech, Walker E. Blake, Walter E.
Blake, James McM. Douglas, Jack Dugan, Eden Hughes, Allison Mitchell,
Edmund O. Scholefield, Patrick J. Williams, John Kevin Dugan, William
E. Butterworth, III, & W. E. Butterworth, III.
He wrote many "M*A*S*H" books with Richard Hooker.
These are just the books under the Butterworth name - not sure which
are juvenile:
AS W.E. BUTTERWORTH, UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED
Comfort Me with Love, New American Library (New York, NY), 1961.
Hot Seat, New American Library (New York, NY), 1961.
Where We Go from Here, New American Library (New York, NY), 1962.
The Court-Martial, New American Library (New York, NY), 1962.
The Love-Go-Round, Berkley Publishing (New York, NY), 1962.
Hell on Wheels, Berkley Publishing (New York, NY), 1962.
The Girl in the Black Bikini, Berkley Publishing (New York, NY),
1962.
Le Falot, Gallimard (Paris, France), 1963.
The Wonders of Rockets and Missiles, Putnam (New York, NY), 1964.
The Wonders of Astronomy, Putnam (New York, NY), 1964.
Fast Green Car, Norton (New York, NY), 1965.
Stock Car Racer, Norton (New York, NY), 1966.
Soldiers on Horseback: The Story of the United States Cavalry, Norton
(New York, NY), 1966.
Helicopter Pilot, Norton (New York, NY), 1967.
Road Racer, Norton (New York, NY), 1967.
The Image Makers, Scripts Publishing (Melbourne, Victoria, Australia),
1967.
Air Evac, Norton (New York, NY), 1967.
Orders to Vietnam, Little, Brown (Boston, MA), 1968.
Redline 7100, Norton (New York, NY), 1968.
Stop and Search, Little, Brown (Boston, MA), 1969.
The Wheel of a Fast Car, Norton (New York, NY), 1969.
Grand Prix Driver, Norton (New York, NY), 1969.
Steve Bellamy, Little, Brown (Boston, MA), 1970.
Marty and the Micro Midgets, Norton (New York, NY), 1970.
Fast and Smart, Norton (New York, NY), 1970.
Susan and Her Classic Convertible, Four Winds (New York, NY), 1970.
Moving West on 122, Little, Brown (Boston, MA), 1970.
Crazy to Race, Grosset (New York, NY), 1971.
My Father's Quite a Guy, Little, Brown (Boston, MA), 1971.
Return to Racing, Grosset (New York, NY), 1971.
Flying Army: The Modern Air Arm of the U.S. Army, Doubleday (New York,
NY), 1971.
Wheels and Pistons: The Story of the Automobile, Four Winds (New York,
NY), 1971.
Team Racer, Grosset (New York, NY), 1972.
The High Wind: The Story of NASCAR Racing, Grosset (New York, NY),
1972.
The Race Driver, Action (Glendale, CA), 1972.
The Narc, Four Winds (New York, NY), 1972.
Dateline: Talladega, Grosset (New York, NY), 1972.
Skyjacked!, Scholastic Book Services (New York, NY), 1972.
Race Car Team, Grosset (New York, NY), 1973.
Yankee Driver, Grosset (New York, NY), 1973.
Flying Army, Doubleday (New York, NY), 1973.
Dave White and the Electric Wonder Car, Four Winds (New York, NY),
1974.
Stop Thief!, Four Winds (New York, NY), 1974.
Return to Daytona, Grosset (New York, NY), 1974.
Tires and Other Things: Some Heroes of Automotive Evolution, Doubleday
(New York, NY), 1974.
Black Gold: The Story of Oil, Four Winds (New York, NY), 1975.
The Roper Brothers and Their Magnificent Steam Automobile, Four Winds
(New York, NY), 1976.
Mighty Minicycles, Harvey House (New York, NY), 1976.
Careers in the Services, F. Watts (New York, NY), 1976.
An Album of Automobile Racing, F. Watts (New York, NY), 1977.
Christina's Passion, Playboy Paperbacks (New York, NY), 1977.
Hi-Fi: From Edison's Phonograph to Quadraphonic Sound, Four Winds (New
York, NY), 1977.
Next Stop Earth, Walker (New York, NY), 1978.
Tank Driver, Four Winds (New York, NY), 1978.
The Air Freight Mystery, Four Winds (New York, NY), 1978.
Under the Influence, Four Winds (New York, NY), 1979.
LeRoy and the Old Man, Four Winds (New York, NY), 1980.
Slaughter By Auto, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 1980.
Moose, the Thing, and Me, Houghton Mifflin (Boston, MA), 1982.
(As W.E.B. Griffin, with Elizabeth Moon) The Shooters, Putnam Adult
(New York, NY), 2008.
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http://www.alabamaliterarymap.org/author.cfm?AuthorID=22
(includes photo and short bio)
It seems his juvenile books tend to be written under the pen names
James McM. Douglas, Edmund O. Scholefield & Patrick J. Williams.
"He divides his time between Fairhope and Buenos Aires, Argentina."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._E._B._Griffin
Lenona.