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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 .
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...
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...
Oct 6, 2016 · Brock Yates was the first superstar automotive writer, though you might suggest that Chris Economaki of National Speed Sport News preceded him, and neither Brock nor I would argue that...
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...
Oct 6, 2016 · Today we're sad to announce that Brock Yates, prolific journalist, broadcaster, and high-speed protester, has passed away after a long battle with Alzheimer's.
