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Brock Yateswas a prominent American journalist, TV commentator, TV reporter, screenwriter, and author. He was the longtime executive editor at Car and Driver magazine — and contributed to The Washington Post, Playboy, The American Spectator, Boating, Vintage Motorsports as well as other publications.
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Brock Yateswas a prominent American journalist, TV commentator, TV reporter, screenwriter, and author. He was the longtime executive editor at Car and Driver magazine — and contributed to The Washington Post, Playboy, The American Spectator, Boating, Vintage Motorsports as well as other publications.
With a journalism career spanning six decades, his work was highlighted by often irreverent and incisive industry critiques — including a 1968 analysis in Car and Driver titled The Gross Pointe Myopians, on which he expanded for his 1983 book, The Decline and Fall of the American Automotive Industry.
Yates was widely known for co-conceiving and then executing the first non-stop, cross-country Cannonball Baker Sea-to-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash, widely known as The Cannonball Run, in 1971 — which subsequently gave rise to his screenwriting career. He co-wrote the 1980 film, Smokey and the Bandit II. For his reporting and racing participation, he was inducted into the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America, in 2017.
Writing for Motor Trend, noted automotive writer Steven Cole Smith, said Yates was a “prolific, iconic, profane, brilliant, pioneering writer” and “called him the first superstar automotive writer.”
8 Quotes by Brock Yates
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Don’t get me wrong, I think bikes are terrific. I own several of my own, including a trendy mountain style, and ride them for pleasure and light exercise.
Brock YatesAmerican motorsport journalist (1933-2016)
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I have four grown children and two tiny grandchildren.
Brock YatesAmerican motorsport journalist (1933-2016)
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Regardless, I did rise to the editorship before embarking on a freelance career in the late ’60’s.
Brock YatesAmerican motorsport journalist (1933-2016)
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The automobile, both a cause and an effect of this decentralization, is ideally suited for our vast landscape and our generally confused and contrary commuting patterns.
Brock YatesAmerican motorsport journalist (1933-2016)
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Had I been more responsible I might have made something of myself as a junk bond trader, long-haul trucker or perhaps a plumbing contractor.
Brock YatesAmerican motorsport journalist (1933-2016)
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More books, more racing and more foolishness with cars and motorcycles are in the works.
Brock YatesAmerican motorsport journalist (1933-2016)
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I admit to wasting my life messing around with fast cars and motorcycles.
Brock YatesAmerican motorsport journalist (1933-2016)
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The bicycle is a former child’s toy that has now been elevated to icon status because, presumably, it can move the human form from pillar to post without damage to the environment.
Brock YatesAmerican motorsport journalist (1933-2016)