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Brock Yates (October 21, 1933 – October 5, 2016) was 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. [1]
Oct 6, 2016 · Brock Yates, A Retrospective Yates penned 15 books, sharing his insights as an amateur racer in Sunday Driver and untold drama in Enzo Ferrari: The Man, The Cars, The Races, The Machine .
Oct 7, 2016 · Brock Yates, an automotive journalist who founded an anarchic, cross-country road race in the 1970s, then fictionalized it in the script for the 1981 Burt Reynolds film “The Cannonball Run,” died...
Nov 5, 2016 · Brock Yates—longtime C/D contributor, short-time editor-in-chief—died on October 5, 2016. He was 82. Yates had been dodging the slings and arrows of Alzheimer's disease for more...
- Contributing Editor
Oct 6, 2016 · Steven Cole Smith, a fellow automotive journalist, pays homage to Brock Yates, the iconic writer and creator of Cannonball Run and One Lap of America. He recounts his personal and professional encounters with Yates, who died in 2016 after a long battle with Alzheimer's.
- Steven Cole Smith
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Oct 6, 2016 · Brock Yates was a pioneer of automotive journalism and a protester of speed limits. He created the Cannonball Baker Sea-to-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash, wrote books and articles, and inspired the Cannonball Run movie and race.
Oct 8, 2016 · Brock Yates, a maverick automotive writer, commentator and magazine editor who was best known for creating — and winning — the madcap Cannonball Run coast-to-coast race, and who later...
